Chapter JUDGMENT to JUVENILE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

JUDGMENT to JUVENILE

JUDGMENT.—’Tis with our judgments as our watches; none

Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Pope.—On Criticism, Line 9.

Sir, if my judgment you’ll allow—
I’ve seen—and sure I ought to know!

Merrick.—The Chamelion.

JURIES.—They have been grand jurymen, since before Noah was a sailor.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 2. (Sir Toby to Fabian.)

Do not your juries give their verdict
As if they felt the cause, not heard it.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto II. Line 365.

JUST.—The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.

Psalm CXII. Verse 6.

Since the bright actions of the just
Survive unburied in the kindred dust.

Wheelwright’s Pindar.—Olym. Ode, VIII. Line 112.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind,
E’en to the ashes of the just, is kind.

Pope.—The Iliad, Book XXIV. Line 523.

[David lived about 1000 years before our Saviour, and the Psalms are more ancient than the writings of any classic now extant. Homer, one of the earliest classic writers, wrote about 840 years before the birth of Christ, and above 100 years after the death of Solomon, the son of David.—Sir John Bayley’s Book of Common Prayer, 239. It appears evident that the writers of the Old Testament were the original and best authors, and that from them are borrowed numerous ideas attributed to the Poets themselves.—See Dr. Johnson, on the Oriental Eclogues of Collins.]

To the height of this great argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 25.

JUST.—Be just, and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aim’st at be thy country’s,
Thy God’s, and Truth’s.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey to Cromwell.)

Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men.

Milton.—Samson Agonistes, Line 293.

Pope has borrowed this idea in the following lines:—

Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 15.

JUSTICE.—Ye gods! what justice rules the ball?
Freedom and Arts together fall!

Pope.—Choruses to Brutus.