“Yet he was humble, kind, forgiving, meek,
    Easy to be entreated, gracious, mild;
    And, with all patience and affection, taught,
    Rebuked, persuaded, solaced, counselled, warned.”—­Pollok, B. ix.

LESSON II.—­PARSING.

“What is coming, will come; what is proceeding onward, verges towards completion.”—­Dr. Murray’s Europ.  Lang., i, 324.  “Sir, if it had not been for the art of printing, we should now have had no learning at all; for books would have perished faster than they could have been transcribed.”—­Dr. Johnson’s Life, iii, 400.

“Passionate reproofs are like medicines given scalding hot:  the patient cannot take them.  If we wish to do good to those whom we rebuke, we should labour for meekness of wisdom, and use soft words and hard arguments.”—­Dodd.

“My prayer for you is, that God may guide you by his counsel, and in the end bring you to glory:  to this purpose, attend diligently to the dictates of his good spirit, which you may hear within you; for Christ saith, ’He that dwelleth with you, shall be in you.’  And, as you hear and obey him, he will conduct you through this troublous world, in ways of truth and righteousness, and 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.