tion of things. Moreoer the observa tion of the many perishable productions of nature, leads him to the idea that the reason of their not participating always in entity is, their great distance from the source of eternal motion as if this principle were unable to pervade the whole system and all its parts with equal energy and [Trinity College, 1842.] power. 95. THE present action, like every other, is to be considered according to the extent of the injury which the person complaining to a court of justice has received. If he has received an injury or sustained a loss that can be estimated directly in money, there is then no other medium of redress but in monies, numbered according to the extent of the proof. I apprehend it will not be even stated by the counsel for the defendant, that if a person has sustained a loss and can shew it is to any given extent, he is not entitled to the full measure of it in damages. If a man destroys my house or furniture, or deprives me of a chattel, I have a right, beyond all manner of doubt, to recover their corresponding values in money; and it is no answer to me to say, that he who has deprived me of the advantage I before possessed, is in no situation to render me satisfaction. It would be a direct breach of the oaths of jurors if, impressed with a firm conviction that a plaintiff had received damages to a given amount, they retired from their duty, because they felt commiseration for a defendant, even in a case where he might be worthy of compassion, from the injury being unpremeditated and inadvertent. [Trinity College, 1842.] 96. No one in fact can read the first or the sixth Olympic ode without perceiving at once, how much of their beauty and good sense depended on being recited by their author. The rapid transitions, so much in the manner of a skilful improvisatore, who changes his subject as soon as he finds it becoming wearisome; the allusions to the banquet then before them, to the songs which they had just heard, and to the persons present; the compliments to the musicians and to the patron of the feast; and the artful mention of the poet's own feelings, history, or necessities, would all have been absurd and offensive in any mouth but his own. 97. [Craven Scholarship, 1843.] IN harmony the very image and character even of virtue and vice is perceived, the mind delighted with their resemblances, and brought by having them often iterated into a love of the things themselves. For which cause there is nothing more contagious and pestilent than some kinds of harmony; than some nothing more strong and potent unto good. And that there is such a difference of one kind from another we need no proof but our own experience, inasmuch as we are at the hearing of some more inclined unto sorrow and heaviness; of some, more mollified and softened in mind; one kind apter to stay and settle us, another to move and stir our affections; there is that draweth to a marvellous grave and sober mediocrity, there is also that carrieth as it were into ecstasies, filling the mind with an heavenly joy and for the time in a manner severing it from the body. So that although we lay altogether aside the consideration of ditty or matter, the very harmony of sounds being framed in due sort and carried from the ear to the spiritual faculties of our souls, is by a native puis sance and efficacy greatly available to bring to a perfect temper whatsoever is there troubled. [Classical Tripos, 1843.] 98. THE influence of Pericles was grounded partly indeed on the measures by which he courted popular favour-which would have been equally agreeable if they had been proposed by any other man-but still more on the rare qualities of his genius and his character: on his eloquence, his military talents, his political experience, his prudence, his integrity, his serenity and greatness of soul. It was thus that he was enabled permanently to control the Assembly, and sometimes successfully to resist its declared wishes. No man ever appeared after him at the head of affairs who combined so many claims to general confidence and respect. But with regard to the demagogues who succeeded him in the period which we are now reviewing, it is clear that, with one exception, none of them possessed any personal influence, or was indebted for the degree of favour he enjoyed to any other instruments than the arts with which he flattered the passions of the people. [Classical Tripos, 1843.] 99. SURELY every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils ; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter all things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? It is true, that what is settled by custom, though it be not good, yet at least it is fit; and those things which have long gone together, are, as it were, confederate within themselves; whereas new things piece not so well; but, though they help by their utility, yet they trouble by their inconformity: besides, they are like strangers, more admired, and less favoured. All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrarywise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived; for otherwise, whatsoever is new is unlooked for; and ever it mends some, and pairs other; and he that is holpen takes it for a fortune, and thanks the time; and he that is hurt for a wrong, and imputeth it to the author. [St John's College Classical Examination, 1843.] 100. IT is to be lamented that the national character of the English is pride, and the meanest of all pride, purse-pride. Even a poor lord is despised; and to increase his fortune, a necessitous peer will condescend to marry into a rich citizen's family. An over-weening affection for money, an idolatrous worship of gain, have absolutely confounded the general intellect, and warped the judgment of many to that excess, that, in estimating men or things, they refer always to 'What is he worth?' or 'What will it fetch ?" Were we to point out a person as he passes, and say, 'There goes a good man, one who has not a vice' he would scarce be noticed-but exclaim, 'That man is worth £500,000,' and he will be stared at till out of sight...... This makes good what Mr Burke says, 'that a merchant has no faith but in his banker; his leger is his bible; the exchange is his church; the desk is his altar; and his money is his god.' [Clare Hall Voluntary Classical, 1843.] 101. THE English ambassadors having repaired to Maximilian, did find his power and promise at a very great distance; he being utterly unprovided of men, money, and arms, for any such enterprise. For Maximilian, having neither wing to fly on, for that his patrimony of Austria was not in his hands, his father being then living, and on the other side, his matrimonial territories of Flanders being partly in dowry to his mother-inlaw, and partly not serviceable, in respect of the late rebellions; was thereby destitute of means to enter into war. The ambassadors saw this well, but wisely thought fit to advertise the king thereof, rather than to return themselves, till the king's farther pleasure were known: the rather, for that Maximilian himself spake as great as ever he did before, and entertained them with dilatory answers: so as the formal part of their ambassage might well warrant and require their farther stay. The king hereupon, who doubted as much before, and saw through his business from the beginning, wrote back to the ambassadors, commending their discretion in not returning, and willing them to keep the state wherein they found Maximilian as a secret, till they heard farther from him. [King's College, 1843.] 102. AND, though I think that no man can live well once, but he that could live twice, yet for my own part I would not live over my hours past, or begin again the thread of my days; not because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse. I find my growing judgment daily instruct me how to be better, but my untamed affections and confirmed vitiosity make me daily do worse. I find in my confirmed age the same sins I discovered in my youth; I committed many then |