and find him, though he be not far from
every one of us; for in him we live, and move, and have our
being; as certain also of your own poets have said, for we are
also his offspring.--PAUL.

Criticism, either didactic or defensive, occupies almost all
his prose, except those pages which he has devoted to his
patrons; but none of his prefaces were ever thought tedious.
They have not the formality of a settled style, in which the
first half of the sentence betrays the other. The clauses are
never balanced, nor the periods modeled; every word seems to
drop by chance, though it falls into its proper place. Nothing
is cold or languid; the whole is airy, animated, and vigorous;
what is little, is gay; and what is great, is splendid. He may
be thought to mention himself too frequently; but while he
forces himself upon our esteem, we cannot refuse him to stand
high in his own. Everything is excused by the play of images
and the spriteliness of expression. Though all is easy,
nothing is feeble; though all seems careless, there is nothing
harsh; and though, since his earlier works, more than a
century has passed, they have nothing yet uncouth or
obsolete.--SAMUEL JOHNSON.

The only accession which the Roman empire received, during the
first century of the Christian era, was the province of
Britain. In this single instance, the successors of Caesar and
Augustus were persuaded to follow the example of the former,
rather than the precept of the latter. The proximity of its
situation to the coast of Gaul seemed to invite their arms;
the pleasing though doubtful intelligence of a pearl fishery
attracted their avarice; and as Britain was viewed in the
light of a distinct and insulated world, the conquest scarcely
formed any exception to the general system of continental
measures. After a war of about forty years, undertaken by the
most stupid, maintained by the most dissolute, and terminated
by the most timid of all the emperors, the far greater part of
the island submitted to the Roman yoke.
GIBBON.

A mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves
of reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily
descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of
activ