BYRON-Childe Harold. Canto III. St. 48. Examine History, for it is "Philosophy teaching by Experience." V. CARLYLE--Essays. On History. Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. CARLYLE--Cromwell's Letters and

10.

Speeches. Introduction. Ch. I. History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.

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CARLYLE--Essays. On History.

Sc. 3.

All his mind is bent to holiness,
To number Ave-Marias on his beads:
His champions are the prophets and apostles;
His weapons, holy saws of sacred writ;
His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
Are brazen images of canonis'd saints.
p. Henry VI. Pt. II. Act I.
He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself, to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go;
More nor less to others paying,
Than by self offences weighing.
Shame to him, whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking!

զ. Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 2. Our holy lives must win a new world's

Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of two thousand. r. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty,
That they pass by me, as the idle wind,
Which I respect not.

8. Julius Cæsar. Act IV. Sc. 3. Ham.-What's the news?

Ros.-None, my lord; but that the world's grown honest.

Ham. Then is dooms-day near.

Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2.

Honesty is the best policy." But he who acts on that principle is not an honest man. น. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY.

An Ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.

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WOTTON--A Panegyric to King

Charles.

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by great examples, or a refined education.

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ADDISON--The Guardian. No. 161. When vice prevails, and impious men bear

sway.

The post of honour is a private station. y. ADDISON-Cato. Act IV. Sc. 4.