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EFFORT.

Heaven sells all pleasure; effort is the price;
The joys of conquest are the joys of man ;
And glory the victorious laurel spreads
O'er pleasure's pure, perpetual, placid stream.
Night Thoughts, VIII. Line 789.-EDWARD YOUNG.

EMBROIDERY.

Sitting in my window,

Printing my thoughts in lawn.

Philaster, Act v.-BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

EMPLOYMENT. Suitable

We may appear great in an employment below our merit; but we often appear little in one that is too high Maxims, CXII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

for us.

EMULATION and ENVY defined.

Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him in time to come, by his own ability. But envy is the same grief joined with pleasure conceived in the imagination of some ill-fortune may befall him.

that

Treatise on Human Nature.-THOMAS HOBBES.

ENCOURAGEMENT.

And all may do what has by man been done.

Night Thoughts, VI. Line 606.-EDWARD YOUNG.

ENDURANCE.

Stillest streams

Oft water fairest meadows, and the bird
That flutters least is longest on the wing.

ENGLAND.

The Happy Man.- WM. COWPER.

The Homes of

The free fair homes of England!
Long, long in hut and hall

May hearts of native proof be rear'd

To guard each hallow'd wall.

And green for ever be the groves,
And bright the flowery sod,

Where first the child's glad spirit loves
Its country and its God.

The Homes of England.-Mrs. HEMANS.

ENGLISHMEN.

Froissart, a countryman of ours, records,
England all Olivers and Rowlands bred
During the time Edward the third did reign.
More truly now may this be verified;
For none but Samsons and Goliasses,

It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten!
Lean raw-boned rascals! who would e'er suppose

They had such courage and audacity?

King Henry VI. Part 1. Act I. Scene 11.

SHAKSPERE.

ENGLISHMEN.

John Bull was a choleric old fellow, who held a good manor in the middle of a great mill-pond, and which, by reason of its being quite surrounded by water, was generally called Bullock Island. Bull was an ingenious man, an exceedingly good blacksmith, a dexterous cutler, and a notable weaver and pot-baker besides. He also brewed capital porter, ale, and small beer, and was in fact a sort of jack of all trades, and good at each. In addition to these, he was a hearty fellow, and excellent bottle-companion, and passably honest as

times go.

The History of John Bull and Brother.
JAMES KIRKE PAULDING.

ENGLISH SOLDIERS.

Description of

The men do sympathise with the mastiffs, in robustious and rough coming on, leaving their wits with their wives: and then give them great meals of beef, and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves, and fight like devils. King Henry V. Act III. Scene VII. SHAKSPERE.

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Now am I idle; I would I had been a scholar, that I might have studied now! the punishment of meaner men is, they have too much to do; our only misery is, that without company we know not what to do. I must take some of the common courses of our nobility, which is thus; if I can find no company that

likes me, pluck off my hat-band, throw an old cloak over my face, and, as if I would not be known, walk hastily through the streets, till I be discovered; then "There goes Count Such-a-one," says one; "There goes Count Such-a-one," says another; "Look how fast he goes," says a third; "There's some great matters in hand questionless," says a fourth; when all my business is to have them say so. This hath been used. Or, if I can find any company, I'll after dinner to the stage to see a play; where, when I first enter, you shall have a murmur in the house; every one that does not know, cries, "What nobleman is that?" all the gallants on the stage rise, vail to me, kiss their hand, offer me their places; then I pick out some one, whom I please to grace among the rest, take his seat, use it, throw my cloak over my face, and laugh at him: the poor gentleman imagines himself most highly graced; thinks all the auditors esteem him one of my bosom friends, and in right special regard with me.

The Woman Hater, Act I. Scene III.
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

ENVY.

A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune.

Essay on Envy.-LORD BACON.

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Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find

A heart wherein no error grows.

The Wife, Act IV. Scene II.-J. S. KNOWLES.

ERROR no Disgrace.

To confess an

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday.

Thoughts on various subjects.-ALEXANDER POPE.

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That crystal is nothing else but ice strongly congealed; that a diamond is softened or broken by the blood of a goat; that a pot full of ashes will contain as much water as it would without them; that bays preserve from the mischief of lightning and thunder; that an elephant hath no joints; that a wolf, first seeing a man, begets a dumbness in him; that moles are blind ; that the flesh of peacocks corrupteth not; that storks will only live in republics and free states; that the chicken is made out of the yolk of the egg; that men weigh heavier dead than alive, and before meat than after; that Jews stink; that the forbidden fruit was an apple; that there was no rainbow before the flood; that John the Baptist should not die.

Treatise on Vulgar Errors.-Sir THOMAS BROWNE.

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