CHAPTER VIII 



THE LIVES 



"Lives of great men all remind us 

 We can make our lives sublime, 

 And departing leave behind us 

 Footprints on the sands of time." 



Longfellow. 



" O God-lit cloud of witnesses, 

 Souls of the sainted dead." 



E. Hatch. 



" There ought to be death-beds worth going to." 



Geoegb Dawson. 



" God give us men ! 

 Men whom the lust of office does not kill ; 

 Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy ; 

 Men who possess opinions and a will ; 

 Men who have honour, men who will not lie." 



Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



It has been recently remarked that the 

 biographic memoir was in England a com- 

 paratively late growth. 



" Meagre seeds of the modern art of biography 

 were indeed sown within a few years of Shake- 

 speare's death, but outside the unique little field 

 of Isaak Walton's tillage the first sproutings 

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