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KISS-LAUGHTER.

The man, whom heaven appoints

To govern others, should himself first learn
To bend his passions to the sway of reason.

14. Let him maintain his power, but not increase it;
The string, prerogative, when strain'd too high,
Cracks, like the tortur'd chord of harmony,
And spoils the concert between king and subject.

T'administer, to guard, t'adorn the state,
But not to warp, or change it; we are his,
To serve him nobly in the common cause,
True to the death-but not to be his slaves.

16. At princes let but satire lift his gun,

COWPER'S Task.

17.

The more their feathers fly, the more the fun!

E'en the whole world, blockheads and men of letters,
Enjoy a cannonade upon their betters.

DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar.

A crown! what is it?

It is to bear the miseries of a people;
To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents,
And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

HANNAH MORE.

18. Ill do you know the spectral forms that wait
Upon a king care with his furrow'd brow,
Unsleeping watchfulness, lone secresy,
Attend his throne by day, his couch by night.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.

KISS. (See EMBRACE.)

LAUGHTER.-(See CHEERFULNESS.)

LAW LAWYERS.

1. It often falls, in course of common life,

That right long time is overborne of wrong,
Through avarice, or power, or guile, or strife,
That weakens her, and makes her party strong:
But justice, tho' her doom she do prolong,
Yet at the last she will her own cause right.

SPENSER'S Fairy Queen.

2. The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two
Guiltier than him they try.

Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;
And liberty plucks justice by the nose.

4. Multitudes of laws are signs either of Much tyranny in the prince, or much Rebellious disobedience in the subject.

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

5. I oft have heard him say how he admir'd
Men of your large profession, that could speak
To every cause, and things mere contraries,
Till they were hoarse again, yet all be law.

6.

The good need fear no law;
It is his safety, and the bad man's awe.

7. Laws do not put the least restraint
Upon our freedom, but maintain 't ;
Or, if it does, 't is for our good,
To give us freer latitude;

For wholesome laws preserve us free,
By stinting of our liberty.

MARSTON.

BEN JONSON.

MASSINGER.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

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8. There was on both sides much to say: He'd hear the cause another day;

And so he did-and then a third

He heard it then, he kept his word,
But with rejoinders or replies,

Long bills, and answers stuff'd with lies,
For sixteen years the cause was spun,
And then stood where it first begun.

9. For forms of government let fools contest; Whatever's best administer'd is best.

10. Each state must have its policies:

DEAN SWIFT.

Kingdoms have edicts, cities have their charters;
Even the wild outlaw in his forest walk,
Keeps yet some touch of civil discipline.

11. No thief e'er felt the halter draw, With good opinion of the law.

POPE.

TRUMBULL'S McFingal.

12. Are not our laws alike for high and low?
Or shall we bind the poor man in his fetters,
And let the rich go revel in his crimes?

CHARLES WEST THOMSON.

13. Unjust decrees they make, and call them just, And we submit to them-because we must.

J. T. WATSON.

LAWYERS.- (See Law.)

LEARNING.-(See EDUCATION.)

LETTERS.

1. Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words That ever blotted paper.

2. Full oft have letters caus'd the writers

To curse the day they were inditers.

SHAKSPEARE.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

3. Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid,

Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid;

They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires,
Warm from the soul, and faithful to its fires;

The virgin's wish without her fears impart,
Excuse the blush, and pour out all the heart
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.

POPE'S Eloisa.

4. The earth has nothing like a she epistle,
And hardly heaven - because it never ends.
I love the mystery of a female missal,

Which, like a creed, ne'er says all it intends.

Take care what you reply to such a letter.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

5. Do you like letter-reading? If you do,

I have some twenty dozen very pretty ones;
Gay, sober, solemn, rapturous, very true,
And very lying-stupid ones and witty ones
On gilt-edg'd paper, blue perhaps, or pink,
And frequently in fancy-colour'd ink.

6. When absent far from those we love,

Is there a charm the heart can fetter?
When years roll on, and still we rove,
Is there no cure? Oh! yes-a letter.

EPES SARGENT.

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LIBERTY-LIFE.

When he had

A letter from his lady dear, he bless'd
The paper that her hand had travell'd o'er,
And her eyes look'd on; and would think he saw
Gleams of that light she lavish'd from her eyes,
Wandering amid the words of love there trac'd,
Like glow-worms amid buds of flowers.

BAILEY'S Festus.

8. Well, Mary, I've seen your nice billet,
It came unto me while at dinner;
My appetite was good-that did kill it,
If it did not, then Satan's no sinner!
I read it, perus'd it, and scann'd it —
I ponder'd, reflected, and thought
What could be the notion that plann'd it?
The conclusion arriv'd at- was nought.

J. T. WATSON.

LIBERTY. — (See FREEDOM.)

LIFE..

1. O, why do wretched men so much desire
To draw their days unto the utmost date,
And do not rather wish them soon expire,
Knowing the misery of their estate,

And thousand perils which them still await?

SPENSER'S Fairy Queen.

2. Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

SHAKSPEARE.