“To the first of these divisions, my ten last lectures have been devoted.”—­Adams’s Rhet., Vol. i, p. 391.  “There are in the twenty-four states not less than sixty thousand common schools.”—­Taylor’s District School, p. 38.  “I know of nothing which gives teachers so much trouble as this want of firmness.”—­Ib., p. 57.  “I know of nothing that throws such darkness over the line which separates right from wrong.”—­Ib., p. 58.  “None need this purity and simplicity of language and thought so much as the common school instructor.”—­Ib., p. 64.  “I know of no periodical that is so valuable to the teacher as the Annals of Education.”—­Ib., p. 67.  “Are not these schools of the highest importance?  Should not every individual feel the deepest interest in their character and condition?”—­Ib., p. 78.  “If instruction were made a profession, teachers would feel a sympathy for each other.”—­Ib., p. 93.  “Nothing is so likely to interest children as novelty and change.”—­Ib., p. 131.  “I know of no labour which affords so much happiness as that of the teacher’s.”—­Ib., p. 136.  “Their school exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable of any that they engage in.”—­Ib., p. 136.  “I know of no exercise so beneficial to the pupil as that of drawing maps.”—­Ib., p. 176.  “I know of nothing in which our district schools are so defective as they are in the art of teaching grammar.”—­Ib., p. 196.  “I know of nothing so easily acquired as history.”—­Ib. p. 206.  “I know of nothing for which scholars usually have such an abhorrence, as composition.”—­Ib., p. 210.  “There is nothing in our fellow-men that we should respect with so much sacredness as their good name.”—­Ib., p. 307.  “Sure never any thing was so unbred as that odious man.”—­CONGREVE:  in Joh.  Dict. “In the dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the deceast.”—­Philological Museum, i, 466.  “These master-works would still be less excellent and finisht”—­Ib., i, 469.  “Every attempt to staylace the language of polisht conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy.”—­Ib., i, 678.  “Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words that ever blotted paper.”—­SHAK.:  in Joh.  Dict. “With the most easy, undisobliging transitions.”—­BROOME:  ib. “Fear is, of all affections, the unaptest to admit any conference with reason.”—­HOOKER:  ib. “Most chymists think glass a body more undestroyable than gold itself.”—­BOYLE:  ib. “To part with unhackt edges, and bear back our barge undinted.”—­SHAK.:  ib. “Erasmus, who was an unbigotted Roman Catholic, was transported with this passage.”—­ADDISON:  ib. “There are no less than five words, with any of which the sentence might have terminated.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 397.  “The one preach Christ of contention; but the other, of love.”—­Philippians, i, 16.  “Hence we find less discontent and heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally burdened.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 56.