ow, to utter, and to
argue freely, according to my conscience."--_Milton_.

"Eloquence is to be looked for only in free states. Longinus illustrates
this observation with a great deal of beauty. 'Liberty,' he remarks, 'is
the nurse of true genius; it animates the spirit, and invigorates the
hopes, of men; it excites honourable emulation, and a desire of excelling
in every art.'"--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 237.

"None of the faculties common to man and the lower animals, conceive the
idea of civil liberty, any more than that of religion."--_Spurzheim, on
Education_, p. 259. "Whoever is not able, or does not dare, to think, or
does not feel contradictions and absurdities, is unfit for a refined
religion and civil liberty."--_Ib._, p. 258.

"The too great number of journals, and the extreme partiality of their
authors, have much discredited them. A man must have great talents to
please all sorts of readers; and it is impossible to please all authors,
who, generally speaking, cannot bear with the most judicious and most
decent criticisms."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p. 170.

"Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it
shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it
strong to hold the sword."--_Ezekiel_, xxx, 21.

"Yet he was humble, kind, forgiving, meek,
Easy to be entreated, gracious, mild;
And, with all patience and affection, taught,
Rebuked, persuaded, solaced, counselled, warned."--_Pollok_, B. ix.

LESSON II.--PARSING.

"What is coming, will come; what is proceeding onward, verges towards
completion."--_Dr. Murray's Europ. Lang._, i, 324. "Sir, if it had not been
for the art of printing, we should now have had no learning at all; for
books would have perished faster than they could have been
transcribed."--_Dr. Johnson's Life_, iii, 400.

"Passionate reproofs are like medicines given scalding hot: the patient
cannot take them. If we wish to do good to those whom we rebuke, we should
labour for meekness of wisdom, and use soft words and hard
arguments."--_Dodd_.

"My prayer for you is, that God may guide you by his counsel, and in the
end bring you to glory: to this purpose, attend diligently to the dictates
of his good spirit, which you may hear within you; for Christ saith, 'He
that dwelleth with you, shall be in you.' And, as you hear and obey him,
he will conduct you through this troublous world, in ways of truth and
righteousness, and