Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.
“Florio,” Part i—Hannah More.
Hannah More, a celebrated English religious writer, was born at Stapleton, Gloucestershire, February 2, 1745, and died at Clifton, September 7, 1833. She wrote: “Practical Piety,” “Religion of the Fashionable World,” “Sacred Dramas,” “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain,” etc.
Look up! the wide extended plain
Is billowy with its ripened grain,
And on the summer winds are rolled
Its waves of emerald and gold.
“The Harvest,” Call St. 5,—Wm. Henry Burleigh.
William Henry Burleigh, a noted American poet and journalist was born in Woodstock, Conn., February 2, 1812, and died in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 18, 1871. A collection of his poems was published in 1840.
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.
“The American Conflict,”—Horace Greeley.
Horace Greeley, a famous American editor and controversial writer, was born in Amherst, N. H., February 3, 1811, and died in New York, November 29, 1872. He wrote: “Glances at Europe,” “The American Conflict,” “Recollections of a Busy Life,” etc.
The strength of affection is a proof not of the worthiness of the object, but of the largeness of the soul which loves.