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174 "Nature will be buried a great time, and yet revive upon the occasion of temptation; like as it was with Æsop's damsel, turned from a cat to a woman, who sat very demurely at the boards until a mouse ran before her."&mdash;.

"Each successive result becomes the parent of an additional influence, destined in some degree to modify all future results. No fresh thread enters into the texture of that endless web, woven in 'the roaring loom of Time,' but that more or less alters the pattern. It has been so from the beginning. As we turn over the leaves of the earth's primeval history, as we interpret the hieroglyphics in which are recorded the events of the unknown past, we find this same ever-beginning, never-ceasing change."&mdash;.

"I must take the liberty to assert, that, if this be law, it is not that sort of law which Hooker speaks of when, with the splendid magnificence of eastern metaphor, he says, that 'her seat is the bosom of God, and her voice the harmony of the world. Such a chimera can never be fashioned into a judicial rule fit to be tolerated or calculated to endure. You may, I know, erect it into a rule: and when you do, I shall, in common with others, do my best to respect it; but, until you do so, I am free to say, that, in my humble judgment, it must rise upon the ruins of many a principle of peculiar sanctity and venerable antiquity, which the wing of Time has not yet brushed away,' and which it will be your wisdom to preserve and perpetuate."&mdash;.

"In the universal convulsion and overthrow of society, many things have come to light on this mysterious and esoteric clue in modern history, things which when combined together furnish us with a not incorrect, and a tolerably complete, idea of this mighty element of the Revolution, and of illuminism both true and false, which has exercised so evident and various an influence on the world."&mdash;.

"Oliver Twist in the parish workhouse, Smike at Dotheboys Hall, were petted children when compared with this wretched heir-apparent of a crown."&mdash;.

Sanhedrim of political race-propagandists profess to regard much of the phraseology in the earlier civil-rights decisions of the Supreme Court and the other courts, which followed the precedents it established, as pompous partisan rhapsodies, and an unauthorized departure from the concise gravity which should mark a well-formulated judicial opinion. If many of the passages, in the earlier decisions of the courts, which