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For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Hudibras, Pt. 1. Canto 1. S. BUTLER.
"I wonder if Brougham thinks as much as he talks,"
Said a punster, perusing a trial;
"I vow, since his lordship was made Baron Vaux,
He's been Vaux et proeterea nihil!"
A Voice and Nothing More. ANONYMOUS.
ORDER.
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till at his second bidding darkness fled.
Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
Paradise Lost, Bk. III. MILTON.
For the world was built in order
And the atoms march in tune:
Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
The sun obeys them, and the moon.
Monadnock. R.W. EMERSON.
Mark what unvaried laws preserve each state,
Laws wise as Nature, and as fixed as Fate.
Essay on Man, Epistle III. A. POPE.
The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre
Observe degree, priority and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office and custom, in all line of order.
Troilus and Cresida, Act . Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
PAIN.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace,
The smoke of Hell, that monster called Paine.
Sidera: Paine. SIR P. SIDNEY.