Standard Selections (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ...And murder sullies in Heaven's sight The sword he draws: --What can alone ennoble fight? A noble cause 8. Give that and welcome War to brace Her drums and rend Heaven's reeking space The colors planted face to face, The charging cheer, Though Death's pale horse lead on the chase, Shall still be dear. 9. And place our trophies where men kneel To Heaven --but Heaven rebukes my zeal The cause of Truth and human weal, O God above 1 Transfer it from the sword's appeal To Peace and Love. 10. What's hallowed ground? 'Tis what gives birth To sacred thoughts in souls of worth --Peace Independence Truth go forth Earth's compass round; And your high priesthood shall make earth All hallowed ground. Fail --fail? In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves For a bright manhood, there's no such word As--fail. XXXIII.--OF STUDIES. Francis Bacon; 1561-1626. 1. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, ' is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business: for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs come best from those that are learned. 2. To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar: they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. 3. Crafty men contemn studies, simple1 men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use;...