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whom he dictated ! and often he occupied
three secretaries at once. His famous
taries" are said to have been composed
horseback.
Some writers composed with great
others slowly and with difficulty. 13)
himself that though he felt driven hod
he was in a state of torture until he had
livered himself of what he had to 60,
writing never gave him any pleasure ;
to be a severe labour. Scott, on the
possessed the most extraordinary fl
dashed off a great novel of three volu
the same number of weeks.
Many authors have been distinguts,
fastidiousness of their composition--1
satisfied, but correcting and recorre
last moment. Cicero spent his old a
recting his orations ; Massillon, in poll
sermons ; Fenelon corrected his Tel'
times over. rote
Of thirty verses which Virgil at
morning, there were only ten left,„
Milton often cut down forty verses —0
Buffon would condense six pages int°
paragraphs. Montaigne, instead of et-
amplified and added to its first sketch.
had great difficulty in making his
said—" If I write four words, I
them ;" and at another time—" I si
three hours for a rhyme !"
Some authors were never satis,
work. Virgil ordered his iEneid
Voltaire* cast his poem of the Lc
fire. Racine and Scott could not
their productions aga'n. Michael
always dissatisfied ; he found faults in
and most admired works.
A great deal might be said 0-h Demos
failures of authors and orators• sch
stammered, and was almost inatid"l'
first tried to speak before Phial:)•
like a man moribund. Other orators
down, like Demosthenes, in their
Curran tried to speak, for the first
meeting of the Irish Historical Socie
words died on his lips, and he sat
titters—an individual present chars
as orator Mum. Boileau broke doyen
vocate, and so did Cowper, our own
tesquieu and Bentham were also fa,
same profession, but mainly through
it. Addison, when a member of ti
Commons, once rose to speak, but
overcome his diffidence, and ever aft,
silent.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF -E
PROVERBS•

" The middle path is the best?'
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The meaning of this proverb 105 i lie
all who read it, and it will require bu"
to exhibit the same principle under on our part to prove its truthfuleedsslif
v,anisdd,oimn
,ththeefißrsitblien,staanndceh,elnetceuds deiri'reesrl'
operation may not be devoid of
tration of our subject. It is contain,
address to his pupil Ithliel—" Give wen;
nor riches ; feed me with food eon who
if I be full and deny thee, and say,
or lest I be poor and steal, and take the
egorivteoathbe,
in vain." What do we gather from thit
very rich and the abject poor are alike -I
great temptation—the one arising. from ,of
abundance, the other from the dire NOT, iii
world's goods. Those of a middle statiel'o,
therefore, are more likely to escape the 511,4
consequently to avoid the sin and its attendov_."c,
Apart, however, from one's worldly eircun)Ore'
may regard man in his social habit ; and
ae he ,3
we observe the superiority of the " golll•

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