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"I have ever thought that advice to the young, unaccompanied by the routine of honest employments, is like an attempt to make a shrub grow in a certain direction, by blowing it with a bellows."—Webster's Essays, p. 247.

"The Arabic characters for the writing of numbers, were introduced into

Europe by Pope Sylvester II, in the eleventh century."—Constable's Miscellany.

"Emotions raised by inanimate objects, trees, rivers, buildings, pictures, arrive at perfection almost instantaneously; and they have a long endurance, a second view producing nearly the same pleasure with the first."—Kames's Elements, i, 108.

"There is great variety in the same plant, by the different appearances of its stem, branches, leaves, blossoms, fruit, size, and colour; and yet, when we trace that variety through different plants, especially of the same kind, there is discovered a surprising uniformity."—Ib., i, 273.

"Attitude, action, air, pause, start, sigh, groan,

He borrow'd, and made use of as his own."—Churchill.

"I dread thee, fate, relentless and severe,

With all a poet's, husband's, father's fear!"—Burns.