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39. "For him through hostile camps I bend my

way,

For him thus prostrate at thy feet I lay."

Pope.

40. "When I was in France, I have often observed that a great man has grown so insensibly heated by the court, which was paid him on all sides, that he has been quite distracted."-Steele.

41. "This was the most unkindest cut of all."Shakspere.

42. ""Tis for a thousand pound."-Cowper.

43. 66 We are alone; here's none but thee and I." -Shakspere.

44. "I have not wept this forty years."-Dryden. 45. "The champions having just began their career, the king stopped the combat."-Goldsmith.

46. "Rapt in future times, the bard begun.”— Pope.

47. "It costs the pupil more to simply state the examples in such a form, than it does to perform them without any statement at all."-Monthly Review.

48. "A good poet no sooner communicates his works, but it is imagined he is a vain young creature, given up to the ambition of fame."—Pope.

49. "I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation." -2 Cor. vii. 4.

50. "Thy sumptuous buildings, and thy wife's attire,

Hath cost a mass of public treasure.”

Shakspere.

51. "Neither Morgan, nor Tindal, nor Bolingbroke,

nor Voltaire, have been able to produce a single new objection."-Bp. Watson.

52. "The number and variety of the laws, which we find established in the universe, is so great."Whewell's "Astronomy."

53. “She is in that time of life, which is neither affected by the follies of youth, or infirmities of age." -Spectator.

54. "In the age of Elizabeth, England was more distinguished for patriotism than any nation in civilised Europe."-Monthly Review.

55. "My paper is Ulysses his bow, in which every man of wit and learning may try his strength."— Addison.

56. "If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar."-1 John iv. 20.

57. "These kind of knaves I know."-Shakspere. 58. "Avert your liking a more worthier way.". Shakspere.

59. "Triumphant Sylla! couldst thou then divine By aught than Romans Rome should thus be laid ?"-Byron.

60. "The Greeks, fearing to be surrounded on all sides, wheeled about and halted, with the river on their backs."—Goldsmith.

61. "This I am the rather disposed to do, that it will serve to illustrate the principles above laid down."-Campbell's "Philosophy of Rhetoric."

62. "He neglected to profit of this occurrence." Hume.

63. "The laws of Lycurgus substituted insensibility to enjoyment."—Goldsmith.

64. "Doubt not, little though there be,

But I'll cast a crumb to thee."—Langhorne. 65. "If seasons of idleness be dangerous, what must a continued habit of it prove!"-Blair.

66. "Will it be believed that the four Gospels are as old, or even older than tradition ?"—Bolingbroke. 67. "The statesman, lawyer, merchant, man of trade,

Pants for the refuge of some rural shade."

Cowper.

68. "So still he sat as those, who wait
Till judgment speak the doom of fate."

Scott.

69. "Will martial flames for ever fire thy mind, And never, never be to Heaven resigned ?"

Pope. 70. "Tell the cardinal that I understand poetry better than him."-Smollett.

71. "The lighting and cleaning of the streets is not nearly so good as in the large towns of England."Buckingham's "America."

72. "Such of my readers, as have a taste of fine writings."-Addison.

73. "Resolve me, why the cottager, and king,

Him, whom sea-sever'd realms obey, and him,
Who steals his whole dominion from the
waste,

Repelling winter blasts with mud and straw,
Disquieted alike, draw sigh for sigh ?"

Young.

74. "The female sex and the more precious spoil

was resigned to the Burgundians."—Gibbon.

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75. "Neither the time nor place of his birth are known with certainty."-Robertson's “ America." 76. I have set down the names of several gentlemen, who have been robbed in Dublin streets, for these three years past."-Swift.

77. "The greatest masters of critical learning differ among one another."-Spectator.

78. "Memory and forecast just returns engage,

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This pointing back to youth, that on to age."

Pope.

79. The more the kindled combat rises higher.". Dryden.

80. "Wine is like a strong serpent, who will creep unperceivedly into your empty head."-Warren.

81. "And back recoiled he knew not why."-Collins. 82. "An idler is a watch, that wants both hands, As useless if he goes as when he stands."

Cowper.

83. "While, ever and anon, there falls
Huge heaps of hoary moulder'd walls."

Dyer.

84. "No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, No cavern'd hermit, rest self-satisfied."-Pope.

85. "Nor is it wise complaining."-Cowper. 86. "Doing good is a Christian's vocation."H. More.

87. "The landlord was quite unfurnished of every kind of provision.”—Sheridan.

88. "But no evidence is admitted in the House of Lords, this being a distinct jurisdiction, which differs it considerably from these instances."-Blackstone.

89. "That faction in England, who most power

fully opposed his arbitrary pretensions."-Mrs. Macauley.

90. Piety is constantly endeavouring to live to God. It is earnestly desiring to do his will, and not our own."-H. More.

91. "Their healths, perhaps, may be pretty well secured."-Locke.

92. "Moses was the mildest of all men, which were then on the face of the earth.”—Geddes.

93. "Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir."Micah i. 11.

94. "Nor is it easy to conceive that, in substituting the manners of Persia to those of Rome, he was actuated by vanity."-Gibbon.

95. "Such of the Morescoes might remain, who lemeaned themselves as Christians."-Watson's "Life of Philip III."

96. "Our pleasures are purer, when consecrated by nations, and cherished by the greatest genii among men."-Blackwell's "Mythology."

97. "Nay, weep not, gentle Eros; there is left us Ourselves to end ourselves."-Shakspere.

98. "A brute or a man are another thing when they are alive, from what they are when dead.”Hale.

99. "The whole line of letters appear."-Whewell's "Astronomy."

100. "One particular class of men are permitted." -Junius.

101. "'Twas thee, whom once Stagyra's grove Oft with her sage allur'd to rove." Scott of Amwell.

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