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Their imitations, and regard of laws:
A virtuous court a world to virtue draws.

BEN JONSON-Cynthia's Revels. Act V. Sc. 3.

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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

BEN JONSON-Discoveries. Illiteratus. Princeps.

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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a Prince as soon as his groom.

BEN JONSON-Discoveries. Illiteratus Princeps.

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Over all things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed. KIPLING-The Old Issue. In the Five Nations.

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'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor
With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead?
She 'as ships on the foam-she 'as millions at 'ome,
An' she pays us poor beggars in red.

KIPLING The Widow at Windsor.

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La cour est comme un édifice bâti de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composée d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.

LA BRUYÈRE-Les Caractères. VIII.

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Ah! vainest of all things

Is the gratitude of kings.

LONGFELLOW-Belisarius. St. 8.

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Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait régner.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

LOUIS XI. See ROCHE ET CHASLES-Hist. de France. Vol. II. P. 30.

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L'état c'est moi.

I am the State.

Attributed to LOUIS XIV of France. Frobably taken from a phrase of BOSSUET S referring to the King: "tout l'état est en lui"; which may be freely translated: "he embodies the State."

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Qui nescit dissimulare, nescit regnare.

He who knows how to dissimulate knows how to reign.

VICENTIUS LUPANUS-De Magistrat. Franc. Lib. I. See LIPSIUS-Politica sive Civilis Doctrina. Lib. IV. Cap. 14. CONRAD LYCOSTHENES Apopothegmata. De Simulatione & Dissimulatione. BURTON--Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. I. Sect. II. Mem. III. Subsec. 15. PALINGENIUS-Zodiacus Vita. Lib. IV. 684. Also given as a saying of EMPEROR FREDERICK I., (Barbarossa), LOUIS XI, and PHILIP II, of Spain. TACITUS -Annales. IV. 71.

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She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. MACAULAY-Ranke's History of the Popes.

Same idea in his Review of MITFORD'S Greece. Last Par. (1824) Also in his Review of MILL'S Essay on Government. (1829) Same thought also in Poems of a Young Nobleman lately deceased-supposed to be writted by THOMAS, second LORD LYTTLETON, describing particularly the State of England, and the once flourishing City of London. In a letter from an American Traveller, dated from the Ruinous Portico of St. Paul's, in the year 2199, to a friend settled in Boston, the Metropolis of the Western Empire. (1771) The original said

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In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.

SHELLEY-Dedication to Peter Bell the Third. (See also BARBAULD)

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Red ruin and the breaking-up of all.
TENNYSON-Idylls of the King. Guinevere.
Fifth line.

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Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull
Once of ethereal spirit full!

This narrow cell was Life's retreat;
This place was Thought's mysterious seat!
What beauteous pictures fill'd that spot,
What dreams of pleasure, long forgot!
Nor Love, nor Joy, nor Hope, nor Fear,
Has left one trace, one record here.
ANNA JANE VARDILL (Mrs. James Niven.) Ap-
peared in European Magazine, Nov., 1816,
with signature V. Since said to have been
found near a skeleton in the Royal College
of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn, London. Falsely
claimed for J. D. GORDMAN. ROBERT
PHILIP claims it in a newspaper pub. 1826.

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Etiam quæ sibi quisque timebat

Unius in miseri exitium conversa tulere.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

VERGIL Æneid. II. 130.

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Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, the Thames, or the Zuyder Zee, where now, in the tumult of enjoyment, the heart and the eyes are too slow to take in the multitude of sensations? Who knows but he will sit down solitary amid silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness changed into an empty name?

VOLNEY-Ruins. Ch. II.

(See also BARBAULD)

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Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor; the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds.

A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. VERGIL Eneid. IV. 173.

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Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem. The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town.

VERGIL-Eneid. VIII. 554.

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Linguæ centum sunt, oraque centum
Ferrea vox.

It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron.

VERGIL-Georgics. II. 44. (Adapted.)

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