9. They’ll come and look at me, but, you may depend upon it, they will dine at your expense before they go home again.—Froude.
10. When the thunders of universal France, as even yet may happen, shall proclaim the grandeur of the poor shepherd-girl that gave up all for her country, thy ear, young shepherd-girl, will have been deaf for five centuries.—De Quincey.
11. Depend upon it, there is now truer duty to be done in raising harvests than in burning them.—Ruskin.
12.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher;
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.—Wordsworth.
13. In a word, Rip was ready to attend to anybody’s business but his own.—Irving.
14. Poor as he was,—for his income was little more than two hundred a year,—and springing as he did from a family of no political importance, it was by sheer dint of genius that the young cornet of horse, at whose youth and inexperience Walpole had sneered, seized a power which the Whig houses had ever since the Revolution kept in their grasp.—J. R. Green.