5. Our English Bible is a wonderful specimen of the strength and music of the English language.
6. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.
7. To be hurried away by every event, is to have no political system at all.
8. This mysticism the ancients called ecstasy,--a getting-out of their bodies to think.
9. He risked everything, and spared nothing, neither ammunition, nor money, nor troops, nor generals, nor himself.
10. We are always in peril, always in a bad plight, just on the edge of destruction, and only to be saved by invention and courage.
11. His opinion is always original, and to the purpose.
12. To these gifts of nature, Napoleon added the advantage of having been born to a private and humble fortune.
13. The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white.
14. We one day descried some shapeless object floating at a distance.
15. Old Adam, the carrion crow, The old crow of Cairo; He sat in the shower, and let it flow Under his tail and over his crest.
16. It costs no more for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men.
18. At times the black volume of clouds overhead seemed rent asunder by flashes of lightning.
19. The whole figure and air, good and amiable otherwise, might be called flabby and irresolute.
20. I have heard Coleridge talk, with eager energy, two stricken hours, and communicate no meaning whatsoever to any individual.
21. The word _conscience_ has become almost confined, in popular use, to the moral sphere.
22. You may ramble a whole day together, and every moment discover something new.
23. She had grown up amidst the liberal culture of Henry's court a bold horsewoman, a good shot, a graceful dancer, a skilled musician, an accomplished scholar.
24. Her aims were simple and obvious,--to preserve her throne, to keep England out of war, to restore civil and religious order.
25. Fair name might he have handed down, Effacing many a stain of former crime.
26. Of the same grandeur, in less heroic and poetic form, was the patriotism of Peel in recent history.
27. Oxford, ancient mother! hoary with ancestral honors, time-honored, and, haply, time-shattered power--I owe thee nothing!