“How gladly would the man recall to life
    The boy’s neglected sire! a mother too,
    That softer friend, perhaps more gladly still,
    Might he demand them at the gates of death!”—­Cowper.

LESSON VIII.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

“Every person’s safety requires that he should submit to be governed; for if one man may do harm without suffering punishment, every man has the same right, and no person can be safe.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 38.

“When it becomes a practice to collect debts by law, it is a proof of corruption and degeneracy among the people.  Laws and courts are necessary, to settle controverted points between man and man; but a man should pay an acknowledged debt, not because there is a law to oblige him, but because it is just and honest, and because he has promised to pay it.”—­Ib., p. 42.

“The liar, and only the liar, is invariably and universally despised, abandoned, and disowned.  It is therefore natural to expect, that a crime thus generally detested, should be generally avoided.”—­Hawkesworth.

“When a man swears to the truth of his tale, he tacitly acknowledges that his bare word does not deserve credit.  A swearer will lie, and a liar is not to be believed even upon his oath; nor is he believed, when he happens to speak the truth.”—­Red Book, p. 108.

“John Adams replied, ’I know Great Britain has determined on her system, and that very determination determines me on mine.  You know I have been constant and uniform in opposition to her measures.  The die is now cast.  I have passed the Rubicon.  Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country, is my unalterable determination.’”—­SEWARD’S Life of John Quincy Adams, p. 26.

“I returned, and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.”—­Ecclesiastes, ix, 11.

   “Little, alas! is all the good I can;
    A man oppress’d, dependent, yet a man.”—­Pope, Odys., B. xiv, p. 70.

LESSON IX.—­PREPOSITIONS.

“He who legislates only for a party, is engraving his name on the adamantine pillar of his country’s history, to be gazed on forever as an object of universal detestation.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 401.

“The Greek language, in the hands of the orator, the poet, and the historian, must be allowed to bear away the palm from every other known in the world; but to that only, in my opinion, need our own yield the precedence.”—­Barrow’s Essays, p. 91.

“For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation, is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.”—­Burke, on Taste, p. 37.  Better—­“on which truths grow.”