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does its duty truthfully and manfully, that lives an honest, a sober and an 
upright life, and strives to make the best use of the opportunities for im¬ 
provement that present themselves on every side; and at the same time, a 
patriotism that cherishes the memory and example of the great men of old, 
who, by their sufferings in the cause of religion or of freedom, have won 
for themselves a deathless glory, and for their nation those privileges of 
free life and free political institutions of which they are the inheritors and 
possessors. 
Man, through all ages of revolving time, 
Unchanging man, in every varying clime, 
Deems his own land of every land the pride, 
Beloved by Heaven o’er all the world beside ; 
His home the spot of earth supremely blest, 
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. 
— Montgomery. 
Nettle. 
A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs, con¬ 
taining a poison that produces a very painful sensation. 
Slander. 
“ .... ’T is slander; 
Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue 
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile; whose breath 
Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie 
All corners of the world; kings, queens, and states, 
Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave, 
This viperous slander enters 
— Sliahespeare. 
