Kindness. Proof of

Look ye, I intended to be kind to you—I'll borrow

some money of you.

The Drummer, Act IV. Scene I.--ADDISON,

KING, his Office and Authority. A

A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness' sake; just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat: if every man should buy, or if there were many buyers, they would never agree; one would buy what the other liked not, or what the other had bought before, so there would be a confusion. But that charge being committed to one, he, according to his discretion, pleases all. If they have not what they would have one day, they shall have it the next, or something as good. Table Talk.-JOHN SELDEN.

KING. Boasted

power of a

'Tis the king

Will have it so; whose breath can still the winds, Uncloud the sun, charm down the swelling sea, And stop the floods of heaven.

Philaster, Act IV.-BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

The most painful and difficult employment in the world, in my opinion, is worthily to discharge the office of a king. I excuse more of their mistakes than men

commonly do, in consideration of the intolerable weight of their function, which does astonish me.

KINGS.

Essay on the Inconvenience of Greatness.
MICHEL, LORD OF MONTAIGNE.

All precepts concerning kings are in effect comprehended in those two remembrances, "Remember that thou art a man ;" and "Remember that thou art the representative of God;" the one bridleth their power, and the other their will. Essay on Empire.-LORD BACON.

The king may do much, captain, believe it;

For had he crack'd your skull through, like a bottle, Or broke a rib or two with tossing of you,

Yet you had lost no honour.

KISS. Use of a

For lovers, lacking cleanliest shift is to kiss.

A King and no King, Act IV.
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

(God warn us!) matter, the

As You Like It, Act IV. Scene I.
SHAKSPERE.

KISS. A farewell

One kiss-so ends all record of my crime!
It is the seal upon the tomb of Hope,
By which, like some lost, sorrowing angel, sits
Sad memory evermore.

The Lady of Lyons, Act IV. Scene 1.-E. B. LYTTON.

KNOWLEDGE.

Delusion is the life we live

And knowledge death: oh wherefore, then,

To sight the coming evils give

And lift the veil of fate to man?

Kassandra.-SCHILLER.

It doth invest us with grand and glorious privileges, and grant to us a largess of beatitude. We enter our studies and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as he will, and leaving him abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence; each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure. Nothing is past which we desire to be present; and we enjoy by anticipation somewhat like the power which I imagine we shall possess hereafter, of sailing on a wish from world to world. Imaginary Conversations.-W. S. LANDOR.

KNOWLEDGE. Scope of

When we rise in knowledge, as the prospect widens, the objects of our regard become more obscure; and the unlettered peasant, whose views are only directed to the narrow sphere around him, beholds nature with a finer relish, and tastes her blessings with a keener appetite,

than the philosopher whose mind attempts to grasp a

universal system.

Letters from a Citizen of the World, Letter VII.
GOLDSMITH.

Our needful knowledge, like our needful food,
Unhedged, lies open in life's common field,
And bids all welcome to the vital feast.

Night Thoughts, v. Line 740.-EDWARD YOUNG.

KNOWLEDGE should be generally diffused.

Knowledge can neither be adequately cultivated nor adequately enjoyed by a few; and although the conditions of our existence on earth may be such as to preclude an abundant supply of the physical necessities of all who may be born, there is no such law of nature in force against that of our intellectual and moral wants. Knowledge is not, like food, destroyed by use, but rather augmented and perfected. It requires not, perhaps, a greater certainty, but at least a confirmed authority and a probable duration, by universal assent; and there is no body of knowledge so complete, but that it may acquire accession, or so free from error, but that it may receive correction in passing through the minds

of millions.

Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy.
Sir JOHN HERSCHELL.

Thus poverty of sentiment, monstrosity of invention, which always betokens a distempered, not a rich imagination, and, in respect of diction, the most turgid verbosity, so apt to be mistaken by persons of a vitiated taste for true sublimity, are the genuine characteristics of the book. They appear almost in every line. The very titles and epithets assigned to God are not exempt from them. The Lord of the daybreak, the Lord of the magnificent throne, the King of the day of judgment, etc. They are pompous and insignificant. If the language of the Koran, as the Mahometans pretend, is indeed the language of God, the thoughts are but too evidently the thoughts of men. the character of the Bible.

The reverse of this is Dissertation on Miracles. Dr. GEORGE Campbell.

Labour in the Garden of Eden.

On to their morning's rural work they haste
Among sweet dews and flow'rs; where any row
Of fruit-trees over-woody reach'd too far

Their pamper'd boughs, and needed hands to check
Fruitless embraces: or they led the vine

To wed her elm; she, 'spous'd, about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings

Her dow'r, th' adopted clusters, to adorn

His barren leaves.

Paradise Lost, Book v. Line 211.

JOHN MILTON.

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