poetry: Ed. Rev., xxxiv, 348.-Jeffery on: Ed. Rev., x, 85.-Early Westm. Rev., Ivii, 593. : 923. QUANTITY.-None so small but less may be taken, how demonstrated: Hobbes' Wks., i, 100. Wheresoever there is is greater and less: Ib., i, 197; viii, 193.-Divisible without limit: Ib., i, 446. 924. QUARRELSOMENESS.-Unjustly charged sometimes: "I have the reputation I believe (said Theodore Parker) of washing down my dinner with sulphuric acid, and delighting to spear men with a jest, and to quarrel with all sorts of people. I never read two theological controversies through in my life." Weiss' Life, ii, 222.—“Thou! why thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason, but because thou hast hazel eyes." Shakespeare. Reflections on: Montaigne's Wks., 497. " 925. QUESTIONS.-When well stated are half answered: Bautain, Art of Extem. Speaking, 149.—Curious and useless, instances of: Calvin's Insts., i, 268; ii, 74. 926. QUIBBLING.-"How every fool can play upon the word! I think, the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence; and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots." Shakespeare.-Ill use made of, by Shakespeare: Johnson's Wks., x, 149. embodi 927. QUIETISM.-Madame Guyon an ment of this religious idea: Liv. Age, xxxvii, 707.-Absorption in God, a kind pantheistic quietism: Ib., 372. rose. 928. QUOTATIONS.-A want of aptitude in making: "Anticipating a speech on one occasion, he (Henry Clay) laughingly asked the Representative of Boston, Mr. Winthrop, to give him the quotation about a rose by any other name smelling as sweet.' This he wrote out on a little slip of paper, and when in the march of his speech he arrived at its point of introduction, he began to fumble among his papers--still talking on, though for his poetry. Alas! he could not find it; but as unfor tunately, with too precipitate a confidence, he had started in the quotation, and had already got off the words, 'A rose,' it was absolutely necessary to finish it somehow ; something at all events must be done with the So after a momentary balk and a prodigious pinch of snuff, he abruptly wound up his attempted rhetorical bravura, by saying, to the astonishment of ears polite, and very much we may imagine to the enforcement of his argument, "A rose,-where'er you find it, still is sweet. Golden Age of American Oratory, p. 30.From the classics: In the company of men of letters, there is no higher accomplishment than that of readily making an apt quotation from the classics; and before such a body as the Supreme Court, these quotations are not only appropriate, but constitute a beautiful aid to argument. They mark the scholar-which is always agreeable to a bench that is composed of scholars." Wirt; Kennedy's Lf. of Wirt, ii, 382.-Abuse of: Parker's biographer says to those who affirm that they are not indebted to Parker for a single thought,-" Men who are kept by a commonplace book, go about raking everywhere for glittering scraps, which they carry home to be assorted in their aesthetic junk-shop. Any portable bit that strikes their fancy is a thought. There are literary rag-pickers of every degree of ability, and a great deal of judgment can be shown in finding the scrap or nail you want in a heap of rubbish. Quotable matter is generally considered to be strongly veined with thought. Some people estimate a writer according to the num ber of apt sentences embedded in his work." The extent to which a young minister may avail himself of the labors of others: Liv. Age, xxxv, 543. The man who borrows from others for the purpose of enlarging his own mind, powerful method to the hearts of his flock, is in a very or of bringing some known truth home in a new and more different position from him who borrows, because he is too indolent to think, and who then retails what he has read with the indifference of a school boy going through his task:" Ib., 545.-Mis: Liv. Age, cxxviii, 57.-Ib., lii, 630.-The writer of an article in Chambers' Papers for the People, on Heyne, says in a foot-note, "The facts of the preceding narrative are derived from Professor Herren's Life of Heyne; and some of the translated passages have been taken from an article on Heyne in Carlyle's Miscellanies, which has also in other respects been serviceable to the writer." An instance of honesty in quotation: Liv. Age, xxviii, 590.-Trite; one of Mr. Hazlitt's "felicitous" faults: Liv. Age, xx, 57.—Of Mr. Hazlitt's habit it is said: "It trails after it a line of golden associations. Yes, and the burglar, who leaves an army-tailor's after a midnight visit, trails after him, perhaps, a long roll of gold bullion epaulettes which may look pretty by lamp-light." But that, in the present condition of moral philosophy among the police, is accounted robbery." Liv. Age, xx, p. 57.-Mr. Gibbon's method of making, as represented by Mr. Davis: Gibbon's Wks, iv, 523.-But we are not discouraging quotations from foreign languages. Far from it. Once be sure of your audience, and you win golden reputation. There is not the slightest doubt that if you were to conjugate an irregular Greek verb in the pulpit at the right time, it would produce an immense effect, as a quotation from some orthodox father of the Church. For instance, what could sound nobler than this? The single-hearted saint could not entertain such a proposition for an instant. 'No,' he cried with a gentle but decisive wave of his hand-katesthio, katedomai, adding, with a sad smile, his favorite expression, katededoka kate phagon. That this is simple nonsense, and merely the four principal tenses of a Greek verb, is nothing. It is a good, sounding quotation, and with an ordinary audience would be rapturously received from one who was popular." Liv. Age, vol. lxxxix, p. 639.-The ethics of, far from being an ascertained science: Liv. Age, lxxxix, 871.-Of scripture by subsequent writers a proof of their uncorrupted preservation: Horne's Intro., i, 108. R. 929. RABBINS. Traditions of the Blackw. Mag., xxxii, 727; ib., xxxiii, 628.-And their literature: Am. Bib. Rep., 2d s. vi, 154. 930. RACES. Petrified: "Races petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre, are unfit to lead civilization. Genuflexions before the idol or the dollar atrophies the muscles which work, and the will which goes. Athens and Rome have an ideal, and preserve even through all the thick night of centuries halos of civiliza tion." Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean, 46.-Name allies us to: Liv. Age, cxx, 439.-The coming race: Ib., cx, 348. -And color: Ib., cv, 131.-Unity of, proved by languages: Trench on Words, 73.-Of Europe: Milman's Lat. Christy., vi, 534.-Different: Fras. Mag., xliv, 651. Characteristics of the ancient: Fras. Mag., vi, 673.— Diversity of the. DeBow's Rev., x, 113.—Ōrigin of the |