204. "England expects every man to do his duty," was the simple but stirring order of the day.

205. The dying exclamation of Madame Roland was, "O Liberty! how many crimes are perpetrated in thy name!"

206. "Honesty is the best policy," is not, "Honesty is immediately the most profitable."

207. "The miller is a perilous man," he said.--Chaucer. 208. How do we know that some things are true, and some things false ?-Dr. Alden.

209. "All is vanity and vexation of spirit," exclaims the wise man, Solomon.

210. "I have examined this carefully," was written on the margin by the teacher.

211. The favorite maxims of this merchant prince were, "Be punctual to the minute," and "Be faithful to the very letter of the agreement."

212. He determined that negotiations should be summarily broken off; that his armies should at once resume hostilities; and that the question of his supremacy should be definitively settled on the field of battle.

He heard a sound that strange, sweet, pleasing was.

So the powers, who wait

-Fairfax.

214. On noble deeds, canceled a sense misused.--Tennyson. 215. "He who can converse with nature, and ponder on the varied mysteries she brings to his notice, and by which she fills his heart with gratitude and delight, can never be alone."

216.

One set, slow bell will seem to toll

The passing of the sweetest soul

That ever looked through human eyes.-Tennyson.

217. But little canst thou prize or trust the friend,

Whose friendship blooms alone in summer hours. 218. I venerate the man whose heart is warm,

Whose hands are pure, whose doctrines and whose life

Coincident, exhibit lucid proof

That he is honest in the sacred cause.-Cowper. 219. During the summer of 1866, he visited that evermemorable spot, where the star of the emperor set in darkness, and where, with it, the fortunes of the empire went down in a sea of blood;-" where," a conjunctive adverb, modifying "set" and "went."

220. The time will come when the ends of ambition will prove utterly worthless; when the pomps and vanities of the world will appear a delusion; and when the soul will stand face to face with stern realities.

221. As we reached the summit of the High Tor, the sun broke through the morning clouds, and lighted up the landscape with wondrous beauty.

222. And whilst he slept, she over him would spread

Her mantle, colored like the starry skies.-Spenser. 223. She fled with the light of the setting sun,

Into the azure far away,

Till she met the dawn of another day. -Proctor. 224. When the act has long passed away; when its recollection has faded from your thought; and when, consequently, conscience has ceased to remind you of your guilt, you will be startled from your fancied security, by tardy but inexorable justice.

225. Notwithstanding we had been toiling steadily upward for hours, the mountain still rose far above us, and its summit seemed yet almost lost in the clouds.

226. My client's hopes and prospects are ruined; and it is no figure of speech to say that her occupation is gone®

indeed.-Dickens;- to say that, &c.," an independent, infinitive phrase, logical adjunct of "it."

I make my treaty, and the heart of man
Sets the broad seal of its allegiance there,

And ratifies the compact.-Henry Taylor.

228. He will certainly be forgiven, when he abandons his evil courses, and his reformation proves to be sincere and thorough.

229. It is possible, and even probable, that he supposed he had the right to reclaim the stolen property by force.

230. "It is to be feared, that some young ladies think themselves excused from the duty of filial reverence, because they are more highly educated than their parents.”

231. It is very possible that, at some earlier period in his career, Mr. Weller's profile might have presented a bold and determined outline.-Dickens.

232. There is a constitutional impulse in the human spirit, by which it is ever stretching forward to a better and happier condition than the one which it now occupies; and, if it can find no earthly prospect on which to rest, still the tendency abides with us, and goads us on, as it were, to an unknown futurity which we fill with wishes and schemes and fond imaginations.—Chalmers.

233. It is then that his majestic sentences swell to the dimensions of his thought; that you hear afar off the awful roar of his rifled ordnance; and, when he has stormed the heights, and broken the center, and trampled the squares, and turned the staggering wings of the adversary, that he sounds his imperial clarion along the whole line of battle, and moves forward with all his hosts in one overwhelming charge. Everett ;-" then," an adverb in predicate; "that his, &c.," a sentence, modifying “then.”

234. Let him say, in those English homes, that, stand

ing on the graves of our young, of our dear, of our beautiful, here in America, we know that after the agony, comes the salvation; after the crucifixion comes the resurrection; and those eyes that at this moment weep, those hearts that every day break, see above all the storm, above all the blood and turmoil of the war, our country as she was to be, as she is to be,-in her right hand justice, in her left hand, law, and burning forever in her eyes, the light of universal liberty, in which this land and all other lands shall have eternal peace.-Geo. W. Curtis.

235. What visions of glory would have broken upon his mind, could he have known that he had indeed discovered a new continent, equal to the whole of the old world in magnitude, and separated by two vast oceans from all the earth hitherto known by civilized man; and how would this magnanimous spirit have been consoled, amidst the chills of age, and the cares of penury, the neglect of a fickle public, and the injustice of an ungrateful king, could he have anticipated the splendid empires which were to spread over the beautiful world he had discovered, and the nations and tongues and languages which were to fill its lands with his renown, and to revere and bless his name to the latest posterity.-Irving.

236. Now if nature should intermit her course, and leave, altogether, though it were for a while, the observation of her own laws; if those principles and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads, should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it may happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were through

a languishing faintness, begin to stand and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and the seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the clouds yield no rain, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away as children at the withered breasts of their mother no longer able to yield them relief ;-what would become of man himself, whom these things do now all serve ?— Hooker.

237. History owes to him this attestation; that, at a time when every thing short of a direct embezzlement of the public money was considered as quite fair in public men, he showed the most scrupulous disinterestedness; that, at a time when it seemed to be taken for granted that government could be upheld only by the basest and most immoral arts, he appealed to the better and nobler parts of human nature that he made a brave and splendid attempt to do, by means of public opinion, what no other statesman of his day thought it possible to do, except by means of corruption; that he looked for support, not like the Pelhams, to a strong aristocratical connection, not like Bute, to the personal favor of the sovereign; but to the middle class of Englishmen; that he inspired that class with a firm confidence in his integrity and ability; that, backed by them, he forced an unwilling court and an unwilling oligarchy to admit him to an ample share of power; and that he used that power in such a manner as clearly proved that he sought it, not for the sake of profit or patronage, but from a wish to establish for himself a great and durable reputation, by means of eminent services rendered to the state.-Macaulay.