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(Dryden).

342. TULL.

'Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency, in giving them no offence.'

343. OVID, Metam. xv. 165.

'--All things are but alter'd; nothing dies; And here and there th' unbody'd spirit flies, By time, or force, or sickness dispossess'd, And lodges, where it lights, in man or beast.'

(Dryden).

344. JUV. Sat. xi. 11.

'Such, whose sole bliss is eating; who can give But that one brutal reason why they live?'

(Congreve).

345. OVID, Metam. i. 76.

'A creature of a more exalted kind Was wanting yet, and then was man design'd; Conscious of thought, of more capacious breast, For empire form'd and fit to rule the rest.'

(Dryden).

346. TULL.

'I esteem a habit of benignity greatly preferable to munificence. The former is peculiar to great and distinguished persons; the latter belongs to flatterers of the people, who tickle the levity of the mult.i.tude with a kind of pleasure.'

347. LUCAN, lib. i. 8.

'What blind, detested fury, could afford Such horrid licence to the barb'rous sword!'

348. HOR. 2 Sat. iii. 13.

'To shun detraction, would'st thou virtue fly?'

349. LUCAN, i. 454.