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ALFRED TENNYSON.

Locksley Hall.

This is truth the poet sings,

That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.*

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

1792-1822.

Poems Written in 1821. Το

The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow!

Julian and Maddalo.

Most wretched men

Are cradled into poetry by wrong;

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

"Nessun maggior dolore

Che ricordarsi del tempo felice

Nella miseria: e ciò sa 'l tuo dottore."

DANTE, Inferno, V. 121.

“In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus infortunii

est fuisse felicem."- BOETHIUS, Commento di Ventura.

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They love their land, because it is their own,
And scorn to give aught other reason why;
Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,
And think it kindness to his majesty.

JAMES R. LOWELL.

Sonnet XXV.

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart.

Irenè.

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected.

The Present Crisis.

Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on the

throne.

The Capture.

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made us men.

RICHARD HOOKER.

1553-1600.

Ecclesiastical Polity. Book I.

Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world all things in heaven and earth do her hom age, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power.

FRANCIS BACON.

1561-1626.

Law Tracts. Preface.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.

De Heresibus.

Knowledge is power. Nam et ipsa scientia potes

tas est.

Dedication to the Essays. 9th ed. 1625.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

On Truth.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Letter of Expostulation to Coke.

When you wander, as you often delight to do, you wander indeed, and give never such satisfaction as the curious time requires. This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you have a large and fruitful mind, (which) should not so much labor what to speak, as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich soils are often to be weeded.

SIR EDWARD COKE.

1548-1634.

Third Institute. p. 162.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium.*

Semayne's Case, 5 Reports, 91.

The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

* Quoted from the Pandects, Lib. IV. Tit. De in Jus vocando.

JOHN SELDEN.

1584-1654.

Table Talk. Friends.

Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.

Judgments.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

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The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, the floating bulwark of our island.

SIR JOHN POWELL.

Justice of the Common Pleas. 1703.

Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 912.

Let us consider the reason of the case.

is law that is not reason.

For nothing

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