Biography is, of the various kinds of narrative writing, that which is most eagerly read, and most easily applied to the purposes of life.

I have at last begun what I have long wished at an end, and find it more easy than I expected to continue my narration.

From what has been said, it may be inferred, that the works of nature, if we compare one species with another, are all equally beautiful.

Many years and ages are supposed to have been thus passed in plenty and security; when, at last, a new race of men entered our country from the great ocean.