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Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.— EMERSON — The Conduct of Life.

Behavior. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.— EMERSON — Letters and Social Aims.

The mildest manners with the bravest mind.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. 24. L. 963.

Pope's trans. He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of

Johnson, 1777. We call it only pretty Fanny's way. S.— THOMAS PARNELL — An Elegy to an Old

Beauty. Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners, living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. I. L. 13.

Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times. и.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 172.

Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 52.

Her manners had not that repose Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.— TENNYSON — Lady Clara Vere de Vere. St. 5.

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded That all the Apostles would have done as they did.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto I. St. 83.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.— BEN JONSON — Underwoods. An Epistle

to a Friend. He strove among God's suffering poor One gleam of brotherhood to send; The dungeon oped its hungry door To give the truth one martyr more, Then shut, and here behold the end!— LOWELL — On the Death of C. T. Torrey.

Martyrs! who left for our reaping Truths you had sown in your blood- Sinners! whom long years of weeping Chasten'd from evil to good- * * * * * * Say, through what region enchanted Walk ye, in Heaven's sweet air? Say, to what spirits 'tis granted, Bright souls, to dwell with you there?— MOORE — Where is Your Dwelling, Ye

Sainted? It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. b. NAPOLEON I. His wife and children, being eleven in number, ten able to walk, and one sucking on her breast, met him by the way as he went towards Smithfield: this sorrowful sight of his own flesh and blood, dear as they were to him, could yet nothing move him, but that he constantly and cheerfully took his death with wonderful patience, in the defence and support of Christ's Gospel. C. Martyrdom of JOHN ROGERS. See Richmond's Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines of the Church of England. Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire.— ALEX. SMITH — A Life Drama. Sc. 2. L. 225.