A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest.
“Life and Letters,” Vol. ii, p. 341,—John Winthrop.
Governor John Winthrop, first Colonial governor of Massachusetts, and a distinguished writer, was born near Groton, Suffolk, England, January 12, 1587, and died at Boston, March 26, 1649. He wrote: “A Modell of Christian Charity,” “Arbitrary Government Described,” and a “History of New England from 1630 to 1649,” which was left by him in MS., and found in his “Life and Letters,” by Robert C. Winthrop.
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
“Reflections on the Revolution in France,” Vol. iii, p. 274—Edmund Burke.
Edmund Burke, an eminent British statesman and orator, was born in Dublin, January 12, 1729, and died in Beaconsfield, England, July 9, 1797. He wrote: “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful,” “Reflections on the French Revolution,” “Letters on a Regicide Peace,” “Works and Correspondence.”
La crainte fit les dieux; l’audace a fait les rois.[1]
—Crébillon.
Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, a celebrated French dramatist, was born at Dijon, January 13, 1674, and died at Paris, June 14, 1762. His plays include; “The Death of Brutus’s Children,” “Idomeneus,” “Atreus and Thyestes,” “Electra,” “Rhadamistus and Zénobia,” “Xerxes,” “Semiramis,” “Pyrrhus,” and “Catalina.”
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view.