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OR THE

BEST WORDS OF THE BEST AUTHORS.

"Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, &c., have the same use with
burning-glasses-to collect the diffused rays of wit and learning in
authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the
reader's imagination."-SWIFT.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

SEVENTH EDITION.

LONDON:

CHARLES TILT, FLEET STREET.

MDCCCXL.

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Laconics.

Long trails of light descending down.-Dryden.

I.

THE English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws d more, they reward virtue.-Goldsmith.

II.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants, and admiration of fools.-Steele.

III.

Manufactures, trade, and agriculture, naturally employ more than nineteen parts of the species in twenty; and as for those who are not obliged to labour, by the condition in which they are born, they are more miserable than the rest of mankind, unless they indulge themselves in that voluntary labour which goes by the name of exercise.-Addison.

IV.

A rebel is a voluntary bandit, a civil renegado, that renounces his obedience to his prince, to raise himselt upon

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