God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed!

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

To the timid and hesitating everything is impossible because it seems so.