What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd, The yellow carp, in scales bedropp'd with gold, Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains, And pikes, the tyrants of the wat'ry plains.

Cursed be the verse, how well so e'er it flow, That tends to make one worthy man my foe.

On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.