183. An apple-blossom, when blown off, floats more lightly. Hans Andersen.—(Fairy Tales.)

184. I know them to be persons of no more taste in poetry than skill in mathematics.- Couper.

185. The plain country fellow is one that manures his ground well, but lets himself lie fallow and untilled.—Bp. Earle.

186. I rather choose to amuse myself with thinking how you will scour the man about.—Couper.

187. I saw here, lying half in and half out of the water, the rotten wreck of an old overturned boat.-Wilkie Collins.

188. Letter for letter is the law of all correspondence.— Cowper.

189. You are both of you too good natured.

190. "Son of affliction," said Omar, "who art thou ?"— Dr. Johnson.

191. Thick house-leek is climbing, leaf by leaf, up its old walls.-Hans Andersen.

192. There was no replying to this very apposite conclusion.-Dickens.

193. A state of ease is, generally speaking, more attainable than a state of pleasure.-Paley.

194. Bath being full, the company and the sixpences for tea poured in in shoals.-Dickens.

195.

So is his horse constrained,
Day by day.-Lydgate.

196. Though surrounded by a multitude that no man could number, each wandered at random, unheedful of the rest.-Beckford.

197. My morning haunts are where they should be, at home.-Milton.

198. Above, rolled the planets, each by its own liquid

orbit of light distinguished from the inferior or more distant stars.-Scott.

199. At one time, two drifts of snow flew, the one out of the west into the east, the other out of the north into the east.-Roger Ascham.

200. Such is the hope of your father's friend, and, although unknown to you, your friend.-Henry Clay.

201. No virtue is acquired in an instant, but step by step.-Barrow.

202. To-morrow! 'Tis a period nowhere to be found, Unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.--Cotton. 203. Atheism can say nothing of the world, but that, for the living, it is a work-shop, and for the dead, a grave.-Bayne.

204. Faith led the van, her mantle dipped in blue,

Steady her ken, and gaining on the skies.

-Thompson. 205. There is no other way of the will's determining, directing, or commanding anything at all.-Edwards. 206. To them, the sounding jargon of the schools Seems what it is,—a cap and bells for fools.

207. Majestic monarch of the cloud,

Who rear'st aloft thy regal form.-Drake. 208. "Roam they the crystal fields of light, O'er paths by holy angels trod;

Their robes, with heavenly luster bright,
Their home, the paradise of God!"

-Cowper.

209. Here living tea-pots stand, one arm held out, One bent; the handle this, and that the spout.

-Pope.

210. God's excellency, his wisdom, his purity and love, seemed to appear in everything; in the sun, moon, and

stars; in the clouds and sky; in the grass, flowers, and trees; in the water, and all nature.-Edwards.

211. This ceremony completed, and the house thoroughly evacuated, the next operation is to smear the walls and ceilings with brushes, dipped in a solution of lime, called white-wash.-Hopkinson.

212. There are two kinds of people I could anathematize with a better weapon than St. Peter's: those who dare deprive others of their liberty; and those who suffer others to do it.—Ledyard.

213. There is no more refined cruelty than to take an educated man, one who is compelled by his position to maintain the bearing and dress of a gentleman, and give him only the sustenance of a mechanic. Dr. Hall of

Dublin.

214. If there is one thing in the world that, next after the flag of his country and its spotless honor, should be wholly in the eyes of a young poet, it is the language of his country.-De Quincy.

215. The early teachings of his pious farmer-father, in the Bible and Westminster Catechism, struggle with, although they are not strong enough wholly to counteract, the rationalistic influences of his German studies.-Hours at Home.

216. "At parting, too, there was a long ceremony in the hall-buttoning up great coats, tying on woolen comforters, fixing silk handkerchiefs over the mouth and up to the ears, and grasping sturdy walking-canes to support unsteady feet."

217.

Child of the Sun, to thee 'tis given

To guard the banner of the free,
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle-stroke,

And bid its blendings shine afar,

Like rainbows on the cloud of war,-

The harbinger of victory.-Drake.

218. It was an interesting sight, too, to see our noble ship, dismantled of all her top-hamper of long, tapering masts and yards, and boom pointed with spear-head, which ornamented her in port; and all that canvas, which a few days before had covered her like a cloud, from the truck to the water's edge, spreading far out beyond the hull on either side, now gone; and she stripped like a wrestler for the fight.-Dana.

219. Lounging near the doors, and in remote corners, were various knots of silly young men, displaying various varieties of puppyism and stupidity; amusing all sensible people near them with their folly and conceit; and happily thinking themselves the objects of general admiration, a wise and merciful dispensation which no good man will quarrel with.-Dickens.

220.

What he seeketh he shall find:

Food for every mood of mind;
Learning, culled from antique bowers;
Science sweet in midnight hours;

Music, silvering down in showers.--Proctor.

221. Astonishing evolutions they were,

one rank firing over the heads of another rank, and then running away; and then the other rank firing over the heads of of another rank, and running away in their turn; and then forming squares, with officers in the center; and then descending the trench on one side with scaling ladders, and ascending it on the other again by the same means; and knocking down barricades of baskets, and behaving in the most gallant manner possible.-Dickens.

222. For everybody knew that Marlborough was an eminently brave, skilful, and successful officer; but very

few persons knew that he had, while commanding William's troops, while sitting in William's council, while waiting in William's bed-chamber, formed a most artful and dangerous plot for the subversion of William's throne; and still fewer suspected the real author of the calamity of the slaughter in the Bay of Camaret, of the melancholy fate of Talmash.—Macaulay.

223. It is like trying to convey an idea of a flower, by enumerating its stamens and tissues, or by presenting it dried and shrivelled, with its name beside it, in some adust herbarium; instead of holding it up to the living eye, arrayed in that dress of purple or blue or scarlet which God taught it to weave for itself from the sunbeams, or inhaling that fragrance which eludes, like a spirit, the rude touch of science.—Bayne.

224. Although the roads were miry, and the drizzling rain came down harder than it had done yet; and although the mud and wet splashed in at the open windows of the carriage to such an extent that the discomfort was almost as great to the pair of insides as to the pair of outsides; still there was something in the motion, and the sense of being up and doing, which was so infinitely superior to being pent in a dull room, looking at the dull rain dripping into a dull street, that they all agreed, on starting, that the change was a great improvement, and wondered how they could have delayed making it, as long as they had done.-Dickens.

225. There was yet another class of persons,—those who were waiting to attend summonses their employers had taken out, which it was optional to the attorney on the opposite side to attend to or not, and whose business it was, from time to time, to cry out the opposite attorney's name, to make certain that he was not in attendance without their knowledge.-Dickens.