Jefferson continued.] nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigour, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; . . . . freedom of religion; freedom of the press; freedom of person under the protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Ibid.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few: by resignation none.1 Letter to a Committee of the Merchants of New Haven, 1801.

LORD STOWELL. 1745-1836.

A dinner lubricates business.

Boswell's Johnson, viii. 67, n.

The elegant simplicity of the three per cents. Campbell's Chancellors, Vol. x. Ch. 212.

1 Usually quoted, "Few die, and none resign."

JOSIAH QUINCY (JUNIOR). 1744-1775.

Blandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that, wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever, we shall be called to make our exit, we will die freemen.

Observations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774

MRS. BARBAULD. 1743-1825.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply,
And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

The Invitation.

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.1 A Summer's Evening Meditation.

Life! we've been long together

Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; 'Tis hard to part when friends are dear; Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear;

Then steal away, give little warning,

Choose thine own time;

Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime

Bid me "Good morning."

1 Often ascribed to Young.

Life.

Thrale.-Dibdin. More.

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MRS. THRALE. 1740-1822.

The tree of deepest root is found
Least willing still to quit the ground;
'T was therefore said, by ancient sages,
That love of life increased with years
So much, that in our latter stages,
When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages,
The greatest love of life appears.

Three Warnings.

1745-1814.

CHARLES DIBDIN.

There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.

Poor Jack.

Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle?
He was all for love and a little for the bottle.

Captain Wattle and Miss Roe.

HANNAH MORE. 1745-1833.

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee know all words are

SIR WILLIAM JONES. 1746-1794

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.

A Persian Song of Hafiz.

On parent knees, a naked new-born child Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that, sinking in thy last long sleep, Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee

weep.

What constitutes a state?

From the Persian.

Men who their duties know,

But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.

And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate,

Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.

Ode in Imitation of Alcaus.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.1

JOHN LOGAN.

1748-1788.

Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,

No winter in thy year.

To the Cuckoo.

1 Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,
Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix.
Translation of lines quoted by Sir Edward Coke.

Solid men of Boston, make no long orations; Solid men of Boston, banish strong potations.1 Billy Pitt and the Farmer.

Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall. Town and Country.

JOHN TRUMBULL.

1750-1831.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween,

To see what is not to be seen.

McFingal. Canto i. Line 67.

But as some muskets so contrive it,

As oft to miss the mark they drive at,

And though well aimed at duck or plover,
Bear wide, and kick their owners over.

Canto i. Line 93.

As though there were a tie,

And obligation to posterity.

We get them, bear them, breed and nurse.
What has posterity done for us,

That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose.

Canto ii. Line 121.

No man e'er felt the halter draw,

With good opinion of the law.

Canto iii. Line 489.

1 From Debrett's Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, Vol. ii.

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