being at the helm will be more than an answer to every argument
which can be used to alarm and lead the people in any quarter into
violence and secession.... There is sometimes an eminence of
character on which society has such peculiar claims as to control
the predilection of the individual for a particular walk of
happiness, and restrain him to that alone arising from the present
and future benedictions of mankind. This seems to be your
condition, and the law imposed on you by Providence in forming
your character and fashioning the events on which it was to
operate; and it is to motives like these, and not to personal
anxieties of mine or others, who have no right to call on you for
sacrifices, that I appeal from your former determination, and urge
a revisal of it, on the ground of change in the aspect of
things."--Sparks' Life of Washington, i. 480.

(14) Napier's 'History of the Peninsular War,' v. 226.

(15) Sir W. Scott's 'History of Scotland,' vol. i. chap. xvi.

(16) Michelet's 'History of Rome,' p. 374.

(17) Erasmus so reverenced the character of Socrates that he said,
when he considered his life and doctrines, he was inclined to put
him in the calendar of saints, and to exclaim, "SANCTE SOCRATES,
ORA PRO NOBIS.'" (Holy Socrates, pray for us!

(18) "Honour to all the brave and true; everlasting honour to John
Knox one of the truest of the true! That, in the moment while he
and his cause, amid civil broils, in convulsion and confusion,
were still but struggling for life, he sent the schoolmaster forth