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CHILDREN to CHURCH AND STATE

CHILDREN.—Unruly children make their sire stoop.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act III. Scene 4. (The Gardener to his Assistants.)

The pleasure that some fathers feed upon
Is my strict fast,—I mean my children’s looks.

Shakespeare.—Ibid., Act II. Scene 1. (Old Gaunt to Richard.)

As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

Milton.—Paradise Regained, Book IV.

[“A remarkable anticipation,” says the Rev. Geo. Gilfillan, “of Newton’s famous saying, `I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.’ ”—Newton’s Life.]

Newton, (that proverb of the mind,) alas!
Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
That he himself felt only “like a youth
Picking up shells by the great ocean—Truth.”

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto VII. Verse V. Line 5.

When I look on my boys
They renew all my joys,
Myself in my children I see;
While the comforts I find
In the kingdom my mind,
Pronounce that my kingdom is free.

Lloyd.—Song in the Capricious Lovers, Air 2.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil’d;
The sports of children satisfy the child.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller.

CHIPS.— You may trace him oft
By scars which his activity has left
Beside our roads and pathways; …
He who with pocket-hammer smites the edge
Of luckless rock or prominent stone, …
… … detaching by the stroke
A chip or splinter.

Wordsworth.—The Excursion, Book III. Page 83.

CHIVALRY.—The age of chivalry is gone.

Burke.—Portrait of Marie Antoinette.

CHORUSES.—For choruses of Flowers, Trees, Waters, Elements, Planets, Time, Months, Seasons, and the Year, see

Churchill.—Gotham, Book I. Line 243.

CHRISTENING.—This country has spoiled them; this same christening will ruin the colonies.

Foote.—The Patron, Act I.

CHRISTIANS.—O, father Abraham, what these Christians are,
Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
The thoughts of others.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene III. (Shylock to Antonio and Bassanio.)

CHURCH.—When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.
God is more there than thou: for thou art there
Only by his permission. Then beware,
And make thyself all reverence and fear.