“Mr. Pope’s Ethical Epistles deserve to be mentioned with signal honour, as a model, next to perfect, of this kind of poetry.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 402.

“The knowledge of why they so exist, must be the last act of favour which time and toil will bestow.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 253.

“It is unbelief, and not faith, that sinks the sinner into despondency.—­Christianity disowns such characters.”—­Fuller, on the Gospel, p. 141.

“That God created the universe, [and] that men are accountable for their actions, are frequently mentioned by logicians, as instances of the mind judging.”

LESSON II.—­PROSE.

“To censure works, not men, is the just prerogative of criticism, and accordingly all personal censure is here avoided, unless where necessary to illustrate some general proposition.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Introduction, p. 27.

“There remains to show by examples the manner of treating subjects, so as to give them a ridiculous appearance.”—­Ib., Vol. i, p. 303.

“The making of poetry, like any other handicraft, may be learned by industry.”—­Macpherson’s Preface to Ossian, p. xiv.

“Whatever is found more strange or beautiful than was expected, is judged to be more strange or beautiful than it is in reality.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 243.

“Thus the body of an animal, and of a plant, are composed of certain great vessels; these[,] of smaller; and these again[,] of still smaller, without end, as far as we can discover.”—­Id., ib., p. 270.

“This cause of beauty, is too extensive to be handled as a branch of any other subject:  for to ascertain with accuracy even the proper meaning of words, not to talk of their figurative power, would require a large volume; an useful work indeed, but not to be attempted without a large stock of time, study, and reflection.”—­Id., Vol. ii, p. 16.

“O the hourly dangers that we here walk in!  Every sense, and member, is a snare; every creature, and every duty, is a snare to us.”—­Baxter, Saints’s Rest.

“For a man to give his opinion of what he sees but in part, is an unjustifiable piece of rashness and folly.”—­Addison.

“That the sentiments thus prevalent among the early Jews respecting the divine authority of the Old Testament were correct, appears from the testimony of Jesus Christ and his apostles.”—­Gurney’s Essays, p. 69.

“So in Society we are not our own, but Christ’s, and the church’s, to good works and services, yet all in love.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. i, p. 84.