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OTHER MENS MINDS SEVEN THOUSAND CHOICE EXTRACTS HISTORY, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION, SELECTED FROM THE STANDARD AUTHORSHIP OF ANCIENT AND MODERN TIMES, CLASSIFIED LN ALPHABETICAL ORDER, E. DAVIES, D.D, WITH STREL ILLUSTHATIONS | LOVE To LOSE REVSELY 1N OTHER MEN'S MUNDS—Lants ‘London : FREDERICK WARNE AND CO, SEDFORD STHEET, SIRAMD NEW YORK: SCRIINER, WELFORD, AND ARMSTRONG, CLAY, 208K AND PALO FE RUT poras Scewt E oUTTe DEDICATION, 0 boar 1 i ented Dy costome—ftom which we are new Told (a neue anor tbenames of or fifa arom ibe font of ear Looks, 2° gentlomen we to st thir ane cone elegile. Same sty this ube began by the [ervey ae Wave spe of Phe ofl ‘weld, which were desioos t9 wu thowght to patronize leaming 5 and men in rope! bono thy mares af Hone Ive pines TRAY EON, My Father! unto Thor to whom T ome ‘al that Tam, al that have and ca ‘Who madest mein Phyself he sum of man In all is generous aa and powers to kno, ‘These Saute bring Ts nor do "Thu forego Marking when T tho hoyish feat beg, Which numbers ov three years eam is pan, Not twenty sominets hel embxormed my Uxow Tie is at bland-nea every page doth prove: siege with ft Nature means neces, 1f there be aught that Thou canst lov, i aprings ‘Out of te hope that 1 may eam that love, “More unta me than inrooraiy, Or ta have trang my har with gokden soings—P. J, Rany. DIVINE.—A Dedication to « In Uedicsrng to you thie volume, « consideration of a fax higher nature than the formal aud custoraary honour of addressing a man of liverary and scientific atsinments indvced me to shelter it under your patronage, In the several vorations in which Providence has called you to officiate, you have proved yourself the warm snd disinterested petron of all that is ‘venevolent and gond,—of everything that concerns the present and ctemnal vrelfore of maokind; while your praises have heen te-echoed from one comer of the land to another as the charopion of the Christian religion, fhe dacirines of which your voice and your pen have done so much to itlustrate > Diem 4 DEDICATION. ESQUIRE.—Onr Own Dedication to an As genuine worth ought always to be recognized and published to the ‘world, not for the sake of ostemtation, but to provoke ‘ imitation, the opportunity fs seized of dedicating this voluine—the fruit of severel yeats’ mental labou—tg H. G. G. Loniow, Eso, J.P, D.L, of Heywood House, not mesa} as an exprossion of deep thankfulness for swany persona) kindnesses received irom him, but as a token of admiration for ‘his unwearied benevolence to the poot, his profound interest in the young, and his declied sysnpathy with acknowledged evangelical ruth and yrerscnal reigion. To him, and to his try devotcd wife, the pavishioners of Heywood are unspekally indebted both for the beantifil Church in which they worship God, and the numerous Christian adhantages. they now happily possess.—De. Davizs, PATHER,—A Dedication to ‘To ny father, whose Ife, Hike a perfume from Leyond the Gates, pene: tsutes every Ie which approaches it, the readers of this The book will owe whatever pleasant thing they may find within its pages. Pung, MOTHER.—A Dedication to 4 ‘This volume is inscribed with deep reverevee and atfection to my snother.—Lonarwa. NOBLEMAN.—A Dedication toa ‘Your honourable name hath stood Jong, like 2 happy sar, in the orb of divine volumes, ~a sanctuary of protection to the Libonrs and persons of students; and if I have yrosomed to fee thither also for refuge, T am taught the way by more worthy precedents, It cannot te but for your hhonour that your patronage is so generally sought for, not only by private sinisters, but even by whole universities; in the vouchtsfing whereof you hhave daily as wany prayers es ihe earth hath saints, I am bold also to ‘present my poot offering, as one loath tq be bindimost in that acknow- Iedgment which is so nobly deserved, and so joyfully rendered, of all tongues, Divers of these sermons did presume on the help of your noble ving when they drst adventured to fy abtoad ; in their rete, or second faght, being now sprung up in greater nuraber, they humbly beg the same favoor—T. ADAM, PRINCE. A Dedlention to a Where is he Who dares foreshadow for an whly son ‘A lovelicr life, a more unstain'd, than his? DEDICATION, ” Or how shotlé England dreaming of Ais sons Hope more from these than some inheritance Of such a Tif, a heart, a mind as thing, ‘Thou noble Father of her Kings to be, Laborious for her people and her poot— ‘Voice in the rich dawn of an armpler dey— Farsighted summoner of War and Waste ‘To frvitialstrifes amd rivalries of peace — Sweet Nature gilded hy the gracious gleam ‘Of letter, dear to Science, dear to Art, Dear to thy land abd ours, a Prince indeed, Beyond al titles, and a household name, Hereafter, thro’ all times—-Albert the Good. —Tenw¥sow, BISTER.—A Dedication to a Dost thou recall, from the bosom of God where thou repostst, those long days at Ghazir, in which, alone with thes, I wrote theso pages, inspired hy the pluccs we had visited together? Silent at my side, thou didst read ad copy each sheet as soon as T had written i, whilst the sey, the videges, the ravines, and the mountains were spread at our feet, When the overwhelming light had given place to the imumerable army of stara, thy strewd and sibile question, —thy discreet duit, led me back 10 the sublime Object of our common thoughts. * * * Tn the midst of these sweet meditations, the Angel of Death struc us both with bis wing : the sleep of fever seized us at the same time: F awoke alone! * * Thou sleepost now in the land of Adonis, near the holy Bybtas and the sacred stream where the women of the aucient mysteries came to mingle thetr tears, Reveal to me, © good genius! to me whom thou lovedst, tose trotha which conquer death, deprive it of teror, and make it almost beloved | Resraw, WIPE, -A Dedication to # "These ears of corn, yatherea and rubbed in my hands upon broken Sabbaths, 1 offer fist fo my wife De. Macnowasn,