land you at last in the habitations of everlasting rest
and peace with the Lord, to praise him for ever and ever."--_T. Gwin_.

"By matter, we mean, that which is tangible, extended, and divisible; by
mind, that which perceives, reflects, wills, and reasons. These properties
are wholly dissimilar and admit of no comparison. To pretend that mind is
matter, is to propose a contradiction in terms; and is just as absurd, as
to pretend that matter is mind."--_Gurney's Portable Evidence_, p. 78.

"If any one should think all this to be of little importance, I desire him
to consider what he would think, if vice had, essentially, and in its
nature, these advantageous tendencies, or if virtue had essentially the
direct contrary ones."--_Butler_, p. 99.

"No man can write simpler and stronger English than the celebrated Boz, and
this renders us the more annoyed at those manifold vulgarities and slipshod
errors, which unhappily have of late years disfigured his
productions."--LIVING AUTHORS OF ENGLAND: _The Examiner_, No. 119.

"Here Havard, all serene, in the same strains,
Loves, hates, and rages, triumphs, and complains."--_Churchill_, p. 3.

"Let Satire, then, her proper object know,
And ere she strike, be sure she strike a foe."--_John Brown_.

LESSON III.--PARSING.

"The Author of nature has as truly directed that vicious actions,
considered as mischievous to society, should be punished, and has as
clearly put mankind under a necessity of thus punishing them, as he has
directed and necessitated us to preserve our lives by food."--_Butler's
Analogy_, p. 88. "An author may injure his works by altering, and even
amending, the successive editions: the first impression sinks the deepest,
and with the credulous it can rarely be effaced; nay, he will be vainly
employed who endeavours to eradicate it."--_Werter_, p. 82.

"It is well ordered, that even the most innocent blunder is not committed
with impunity; because, were errors licensed where they do no hurt,
inattention would grow into habit, and be the occasion of much
hurt."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 285.

"The force of language consists in raising complete images; which have the
effect to transport the reader, as by magic, into the very place of the
important action, and to convert him as it were into a spectator, beholding
every thing that passes."--_Id., ib._, ii, 241.

"An orator should not put forth all his strength at the beginning, but
should ri