“He [Dr. Johnson] sat up in his bed, clapped his hands, and cried, ’O brave we!’—­a peculiar exclamation of his when he rejoices.”—­ Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Vol. iii, p. 56.

“Single, double, and treble emphasis are nothing but examples of antithesis.”—­Knowles’s Elocutionist, p. xxviii.

“The curious thing, and what, I would almost say, settles the point, is, that we do Horace no service, even according to our view of the matter, by rejecting the scholiast’s explanation.  No two eggs can be more like each other than Horace’s Malthinus and Seneca’s Mecenas.”—­ Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 477. “Acting, conduct, behaviour, abstracted from all regard to what is, in fact and event, the consequence of it, is itself the natural object of this moral discernment, as speculative truth and [say or] falsehood is of speculative reason.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 277.

“To do what is right, with unperverted faculties, is ten times easier than to undo what is wrong.”—­Porter’s Analysis, p. 37.

“Some natures the more pains a man takes to reclaim them, the worse they are.”—­L’ESTRANGE:  Johnson’s Dict., w.  Pains.

“Says John Milton, in that impassioned speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, where every word leaps with intellectual life, ’Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.  Many a man lives a burden upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life!’”—­Louisville Examiner, June, 1850.

LESSON III.—­PROSE.

“The philosopher, the saint, or the hero—­the wise, the good, or the great man—­very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light.”—­Addison.

“The year before, he had so used the matter, that what by force, what by policy, he had taken from the Christians above thirty small castles.”—­Knolles.

“It is an important truth, that religion, vital religion, the religion of the heart, is the most powerful auxiliary of reason, in waging war with the passions, and promoting that sweet composure which constitutes the peace of God.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 181.