--_Irving_.
9. The evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is
robbing the human race.--_Mill_.
10. There is no getting along with Johnson; if his pistol misses fire, he
knocks you down with the butt of it.--_Goldsmith_.
11. We think in words; and, when we lack fit words, we lack fit
thoughts.--_White_.
12. To speak perfectly well one must feel that he has got to the bottom of
his subject.--_Whately_.
13. Office confers no honor upon a man who is worthy of it, and it will
disgrace every man who is not.--_Holland_.
14. The men whom men respect, the women whom women approve, are the men and
women who bless their species.--_Parton_.
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LESSON 81.
MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES IN REVIEW.
Analysis.
1. A ruler who appoints any man to an office when there is in his dominions
another man better qualified for it sins against God and against the
state.--_Koran_.
2. We wondered whether the saltness of the Dead Sea was not Lot's wife in
solution.--_Curtis_.
3. There is a class among us so conservative that they are afraid the roof
will come down if you sweep off the cobwebs.--_Phillips_.
4. Kind hearts are more than coronets; and simple faith, than Norman
blood.
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