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Show the English laws, one of the multitud cried out to him, "You never sate on s glorious a seat." Charles II., to intimidat the citizens of London, caused the patrio Lord Russel to be drawn in an open coach through the principal streets of the city, o his wa to the scaffold. « But," to use th simple narrative of his biographer, "th multitude imagined they saw liberty an virtue sitting by his side."" & In privat places, amon sordi objects a ac o truth or heroism seems at once to draw t itself the sky as its temple, the sun as it candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms t embrace man, only let his thoughts be o equal greatness. Willingly does she follo his steps with the rose an the violet, an bend her lines of grandeur and grace t the decoration of her darling child. Onl let his thoughts be of equal scope, and th frame will suit the picture. A virtuous man is in unison with her works, and make the central figur of th visibl sphere Homer, Pindar, Socrates, Phocion, associ ate themselves fitly in our memory wit the whole geography & climate of Greece ‘The visible heavens and earth sympathiz with Jesus. And in common life, whosoeve 2 Digital Image © 2005 Mar iot Library Unive |