A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Even Holland and Spain have been positively, though not relatively, advancing.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

He had done that which could never be forgiven; he was in the grasp of one who never forgave.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.