OCTOBER
I have read somewhere or other,—in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think,—that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
“On the Study and Use of History,” Letter 2,—Bolingbroke.
Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, a distinguished English statesman, author, and orator, was born at Battersea, October 1, 1678, and died there, December 12, 1751. His principal works are: “Letters on the Spirit of Patriotism,” “Letters on the Study of History,” “The Idea of a Patriot King,” and “A Dissertation on Parties.”
We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union.
“Letter to the Whig Convention, 1855,”—Rufus Choate.
Rufus Choate, an eminent American lawyer, orator and statesman, was born at Essex, Mass., October 1, 1799, and died at Halifax, N. S., July 13, 1859. His “Works” (2 vols.) were published in 1863.