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[312-1] The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves, by thumping on your back.

COWPER: _On Friendship._

BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;[312-2] The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

_On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America._

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

_Can Love be controlled by Advice?_[312-3]

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.[312-4]

_Siris. Par. 217._

FOOTNOTES:

[312-2] See Daniel, page 39.

Westward the star of empire takes its way.--JOHN QUINCY ADAMS: _Oration at Plymouth, 1802._

[312-3] AIKEN: _Vocal Poetry_ (London, 1810).

[312-4] Cups That cheer but not inebriate.

COWPER: _The Task,