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uct. A class of presumptuous men, whom age has not made cautious, nor adversity wise. Buckminster.

ole life of man is a perpetual comparison of evidence and balancing of probabilities. Buckminster. We do not call for evidence till antecedent probabilities fail. J. H. Newman.

h is profane; profane language or acts. The brisk interchange of profanity and folly. Buckminster.

of the sovereign, thus deferring its business. Parliament was prorogued to [meet at] Westminster. Bp. Hall. The Parliament was again prorogued to a distant day. Macaulay.

t and useful companion in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life. Buckminster.

art, which responds to some new note of complaint within the wide scale of human woe. Buckminster. To every theme responds thy various lay. Broome.

ker. Only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received by faith alone. Westminster Catechism.

day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character. Buckminster.

in the vast plan which God has instituted for the education of various intelligences Buckminster.

owledge which the Scripteres contain, every other subject of human inquiry is vanity. Buckminster.

cious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives. Dickens.

hat which produces such a feeling; as, the solemnity of an audience; the solemnity of Westminster Abbey.

roads leading to the capital were covered with multitudes of yeomen, spurring hard to Westminster. Macaulay. Some bold men, . . . by spurring on, refine themselves. Grew.

Being above the earth, or above what belongs to the earth. Buckminster.

and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster.

God enter with any pleasure a temple consecrated to devotion and sanctified by prayer Buckminster.

l. Believe me, your time is not your own; it belongs to God, to religion, to mankind. Buckminster.

onal. The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionary interpolations. Buckminster.

rm. The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute us into idols. Buckminster. Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. H. Smith.