Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 edition. Excerpt: ...1 No, 'twas thy righteous end, ashamed to see Senates degenerate,1 patriots disagree,1 And nobly wishing party-rage to cease, To buy both sides, and give thy country peace. 1 All this is madness, ' cries a sober sage; S But who my friend has reason in his rage? The ruling passion, be it what it wiU, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Less mad the wildest whhnsey we can frame, Than even that passion, if it has no aim; 10 For though such motives2 folly2 you may call, The folly's greater to have none at all. Hear then the truth: 'Tis Heaven each passion sends, And different men directs to different ends. Extremes in nature equal good produce, 15 Extremes in man concur to general use. Ask we what makes one keep, and one bestow? That power who bids the ocean ebb and flow; Bids seed time, harvest, equal course maintain, Through reconciled extremes of drought and rain; 20 Builds life on death, on change duration founds, And gives the etemahwheels to know their rounds. Riches, like insects, when concealed they lie, Wait but3 for wings, and in their season fly: Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, 35 Sees but a backward steward for the poor This year a reservoir4 to keep and spare, The next a fountain,4 spouting through his heir, in lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. 30 1 Rule XIX. 8 Rule XI. = Rule XXI, Rem. 9. Rule I. Mention all the subjects of the verb fired in the three line bore. How many simple sentences oan be formed in those three lines 1 To what word do ashamed and wishing belong 1 CHAPTER XI. THE FCR1TANS. macaulay. L The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not...
