Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most admirable and useful philosophers that trod the path of science.

6. Pray give me those oranges. Do you like those books which I, &c. Do you not think those children in great danger? I do not approve those actions. I cannot esteem those deeds as either laudable, &c. They are my books. Those words and actions will never procure respect. They are the persons with whom you ought not to associate.

7. I could not think but that they were guilty of the crime. I could not imagine but that you had fulfilled, &c. They could never have thought but that he had forgiven his repentant child.

8. The man who died yesterday morning is a public loss. The articles which you lost are found. The sheep which had strayed from the fold are returned. The ship which sailed yesterday evening has had a favourable wind. The men, women, and children who are on board, &c. Blessed are the men who love and fear God, who obey his holy commandments. The cities in northern Italy which asserted their liberty were, for some time, successful.

9. They who cultivate a taste for refined and intellectual pleasures, open to themselves new sources of, &c.

They who are entirely given up to the pleasures of sense, prepare for themselves, &c.

They who anticipate unavoidable calamities, double the pain and trial.

They who feel and manifest sympathy for the sorrows of others, will receive pity for their own.

Which of those children do you wish to see?

Which of all this company is most friendly to me?

Which of the nine muses is your favourite?
Which of those two men is blind?

Which of all those gentlemen is the bridegroom? Which of those horsemen is the prince of Wales? Which of the British generals is the most, &c. Ah, miserable me! How cruel is my fate! Oh happy me! what return of gratitude can I pay for such benefits?

O thou my enemy, my unjust persecutor!

Ah, ye who wish to be happy, flee from sin, &c. Oh, ye who are involved in the darkness of sin, awake, arise, &c.

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How pleasant it is to behold the beautiful colours, and to smell the sweet fragrance of the flowers, which blow in the spring, and glow in the summer sun!

Whom shall I love; whom shall I esteem, if not the friend who aided and preserved, &c.

They who say such things, who utter such calumnies, have reason to hide, &c.

Children, who obey their parents, who love and fear God, who are industrious, docile, and good-natured, who do not dispute nor fight, but who are gentle and obliging, will be protected by God, &c.

That great and glorious, that good and gracious God, in whom we live, and move, and have our being, to whom we owe our existence, with all our faculties and enjoyments, on whom we entirely depend for their continuance, whom we ought supremely to love and uniformly to obey, is the Creator, &c.

They who nourished and cherished our tender in

fancy; who guided our steps in the slippery paths of youth; who enlightened our minds with useful knowledge; who taught us to know, to love, to serve our Maker; who pointed out to us the road which leadeth unto life everlasting; they are the persons who justly claim our warmest, &c.

He who watches for an opportunity of gratifying revenge, watches to inflict an injury on himself.

He who gaineth a fortune by his own industry will know better how to keep it, and, probably, will know better also how to use it, than he who finds a fortune ready made to his hand.

He who walketh in integrity shall walk confidently; but he who is indirect in his ways shall be detected. He who observeth instruction is in the way of life; but he who scorneth instruction shall go astray.

He who cloaketh hatred hath the lips of hypocrisy ; but he who uttereth slander is a fool.

Was any one present at that interview besides his mother? Yes; both he and his sister.

They whom religious hopes and principles support and guide, and whom a good conscience cheers, can face a frowning world with fortitude; can behold, with calm resolution, the gloomy clouds of adversity.

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Thou art the prince who lovest justice and truth; who exercisest discernment; who administerest the laws with an impartial hand, but in the spirit of clemency.

I am the man who assert that you committed that iniquitous deed; who denounce you to public justice; who scorn your meanness and dishonesty.

I am thy guardian who watcheth for thy welfare; I am thy instructor, who giveth thee good advice; I am thy friend who loveth thee sincerely, and who, in all respects, consulteth thy best interests.

I am the person who dares to accuse the guilty, who fears not to unveil treachery and vice.

Thou art the friend who forsakest me not in the time of need, who fliest not from me in the season of danger, who desertest me not in the day of distress.

I am the father who loves you, who cherishes you, who instructs you, who provides for you.

Thou art he who regardest me with true affection, who gently admonishest me of my faults, who carefully warnest me of the dangers into which I am running, who cheerest me under all my trials.

I am the sincere friend who calls upon thee to save thyself from peril, who exhorts thee to separate thyself from thy pernicious associates, who intreats thee to overcome thy degrading propensities, who supplicates thee to forsake thy evil ways, and to turn unto thy God, to virtue, to happiness.

Thou art he who deceivest thyself, who flatterest thy own heart, who art blind to thy faults, who runnest to meet destruction.

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She is a sensible, well-educated, and virtuous woman, as well as a beautiful woman, &c.

He is a good, a well-instructed, a prudent, and a religious man, as well as a wealthy and powerful man. 2. Do you not see those twenty soldiers, &c.

He said that he saw full ten thousand horses running in, &c.

I have not seen my beloved home, nor my dear friends these twenty years.

Take notice, sir, I do, by no means, recommend to your attention this kind of people.

This kind of men are only summer-friends, friends of prosperity.

This sort of ornaments, which are transient, perishable, and precarious, are of little or no real value.

Do not offer those oranges to me; for that sort of oranges are sour, &c.

2. He endeavoured to accomplish his purpose by those unworthy means.

By this means he pleased both prince and people. By that means he succeeded in an enterprise, which appeared to most, &c.

By what means he appeased the, &c.

To be neither high nor low, rich nor poor, public nor private, constitutes the golden mean which is, &c. He was so fortunate, or so prudent and wise, as to hit the happy mean, &c.

3. She behaved with great prudence, manifested unyielding fortitude, and was, at the same time, gentle; by those means, she extricated herself, &c.

4. With this amends he pacified, &c.

The king was satisfied with this amends.
Will this amends prove my repentance, &c.

6. You look exceedingly well after so long an illness. I take it extremely kind of you, that, &c.

It rains excessively fast; the lightning is dreadfully fierce; the thunder peals awfully loud.