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God hath blessed you with a good name: to be While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven, a well-favored man is the gift of fortune, but to Calming the lightning which he thence hath write and read comes by nature.

riven. Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 3. BYRON—Age of Bronze. V. L. 13.

And stoic Franklin's energetic shade Only the refined and delicate pleasures that

Robed in the lightnings which his hand allay'd. spring from research and education can build up

BYRON-Age of Bronze. VIII. barriers between different ranks. MADAME DE STAËL-Corinne. Bk. IX. Ch. I.

Striking the electric chain wherewith we are Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,

darkly bound.

BYRON—Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 23. To tell what every schoolboy knows. SWIFT—Century Life.

(See also CARLYLE under SYMPATHY)

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To put a girdle round about the world. Every school-boy knows it.

GEO. CHAPMAN-Bussy d'Ambois. Act I.

Sc. 1.
JEREMY TAYLOR- On the Real Presence. Sec.
V. 1. Phrase attributed to MACAULAY

(See also MIDSUMMER Night's DREAM. Also from his frequent use of it.

CHAPMAN and WEBSTER under NAVIGATION) (See also BURTON)

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A vast engine of wonderful delicacy and inOf an old tale which every schoolboy knows. tricacy, a machine that is like the tools of the WILLIAM WHITEHEADThe Roman Father. Titans put in your hands. This machinery, in Prologue.

its external fabric so massive and so exquisitely (See also BURTON)

adjusted, and in its internal fabric making new

categories of thought, new ways of thinking Still sits the school-house by the road,

about life. A ragged beggar sunning;

CHARLES FERGUSON—Address. Stevens' IndiAround it still the sumachs grow

cator. Vol. XXXIV. No. 1. 1917. And blackberry vines are running. WHITTIER—In School Days.

Notwithstanding my experiments with elec7

tricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, but half completed, while millions of freemen there are a million of us still engaged at snatching with votes in their hands are left without educa away his sceptre. tion.

FRANKLIN Comment on TURGOT's inscription ROBERT C. WINTHROPYorktown Oration. in a letter to FELIX NOGARET, who translatOct. 19, 1881.

ed the lines into French.

(See also TURGOT)
EGOTISM (See SELF-LOVE)
EGYPT

But matchless Franklin! What a few

Can hope to rival such as you.
Egypt! from whose all dateless tombs arose Who seized from kings their sceptred pride
Forgotten Pharaohs from their long repose, And turned the lightning's darts aside.
And shook within their pyramids to hear

PHILIP FRENEAU-On the Death of Benjamin A new Cambyses thundering in their ear;

Franklin. While the dark shades of forty ages stood

(See also TURGOT) Like startled giants by Nile's famous flood. BYRON—The Age of Bronze. V.

Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it—that by

means of electricity, the world of matter has And they spoiled the Egyptians.

become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of Exodus. XII. 36.

miles in a breathless point of time? Rather, the

round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with I am dying, Egypt, dying.

intelligence: or shall we say it is itself a thought, Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. Sc. 15. L. 18. nothing but thought, and no longer the sub

stance which we dreamed it. ELECTRICITY

HAWTHORNE—The House of the Seven Gables. Stretches, for leagues and leagues, the Wire,

The Flight of Two Owls.
A hidden path for a Child of Fire -
Over its silent spaces sent,

A million hearts here wait our call,
Swifter than Ariel ever went,

All naked to our distant speech-
From continent to continent.

I wish that I could ring them all
WM. HENRY BURLEIGH—The Rhyme of the And have some welcome news for each.
Cable.

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY-Of a Telephone Direc

tory. In The Rocking Horse. And fire a mine in China, here

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An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L. That bids the spheres become articulate. 295.

JOSEPHINE L. PBABODY–Wireless.

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L'éloquence est une peinture de la pensée.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
PASCALPensées. XXIV. 88.

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From the vine-land, from the Rhine-land,
From the Shannon, from the Scheldt,
From the ancient homes of genius,

From the sainted home of Celt,
From Italy, from Hungary,

All as brothers join and come,
To the sinew-bracing bugle,

And the foot-propelling drum;
Too proud beneath the starry flag to die, and

keep secure
The liberty they dreamed of by the Danube,

Elbe, and Suir.
JOHN SAVAGE-Muster of the North.
At the gate of the West I stand,
On the isle where the nations throng.
We call them "scum o' the earth."

R. H. SCHAUFFLER—Scum o' the Earth.

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A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 165.

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That aged ears play truant at his tales
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 74.

Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant
Atque alio patriam quærunt sub sole jacentem.

And for exile they change their homes and
pleasant thresholds, and seek a country lying
beneath another sun.
VERGIL-Georgics. Bk. II. 511.

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END, THE (See also RESULTS)
But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.
Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 32. Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember

the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.
Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Ecclesiasticus. VII. 36.
Then I'll commend her volubility,
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.

Finem respice (or Respice finem).
Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 175. Have regard to the end.

Translation of Chilo's saying. Omnium artium domina (eloquentia). (Eloquence) the mistress of all the arts.

He who has put a good finish to his undertakTACITUS—De Oratoribus. XXXII.

ing is said to have placed a golden crown to the

whole. Magna eloquentia, sicut flamma, materia ali EUSTATHIUS—Commentary on the Iliad. tur, et motibus excitatur et urendo clarescit.

(See also HOMER) It is the eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit. brightens as it burns.

If the end be well, all will be well. TACITUS—De Oratoribus. XXXVI.

Gestæ Romanorum. Tale LXVII. (See also PITT)

A morning Sun, and a Wine-bred child, and a But while listening Senates hang upon thy | Latin-bred woman seldom end well. tongue,

HERBERT-Jacula Prudentum.
Devolving through the maze of eloquence
A roll of periods, sweeter than her song.

It is the end that crowns, us, not the fight.
THOMSON—The Seasons. Autumn.

HERRICK-Hesperides. 340.

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