Paul, we are both young men just commencing life, and my motto is to look out for Number 1, and you" "

Trained from his first pony in political tradition, and encouraged by every gamekeeper to follow the footsteps of his ancestors, Lord Runnymede had inevitably taken "Noblesse oblige" as his private motto.

Now that this and like incidents of our journey are in the dim past, let us inscribe for his epitaph what was his own adopted motto while doing guard duty when menaced by the Indians on the Yellowstone: "REQUIESCAT IN PACE.

Jake might well adopt as a motto suitable for his guidance while doing guard duty, "Requieseat in pace."

The Sardanapalian motto, "Laugh, sing, dance, and be merry," seems to be universally adopted in this "City of the Plague."

In fact, a deadly animosity pervades America towards Great Britain; and although it is not publicly confessed, for the Americans are too able politicians to do that, yet it is no less certain, that "Delenda est Carthago," is their motto.

MACLAURIN, John (afterwards Lord Dreghorn), argument for Knight, a negro, iii. 86; motto for it from Virgil, iii. 87, n. 3, 212; plea read by Johnson, iii. 88, 101, 127, 212; epitaphs on his father, his, v. 49; Goldsmith's story of his father, uneasy at, iii. 15; Johnson, introduced to, v. 48; style, caricatures, ii. 363; 'made dish,' his, i. 469; v. 394, n. 1.

MYDDLETON, Colonel, family motto, v. 450, n. 2; Johnson, erects a memorial to, iv.

Fabulae Confutatio, ii. 263, n. 5; Buchanan, praise, ii. 96; 'cum Scaligero errare,' ii. 444; Dictionary-makers, on, i. 296, n. 3; Johnson takes a motto from the Poeticks, i. 62; Lydiat, attacked by, i. 194, n. 2; Mantuan's Bucolics, complaint about, iv.

SEWARD, William, F.R.S., account of him, iii. 123; Batheaston Vase, perhaps wrote for the, ii. 337, n. 2; Harington's Nugae Antiquae, suggests a motto for, iv.

In that motto is the secret of all that he is to his countrymen.

The following motto for a tea-caddy was quoted by the celebrated J. Wilkes:

Then he rose and staggered to a little cupboard, the door of which was adorned with a pretty Greek motto, and a hovering Cupid painted in a blue sky; whence he filled himself a glass of cordial.

A motto of the Masonic Order, which is equivalent to "truth out of initiation;" light being the symbol of truth, and darkness the symbol of initiation commenced.

' "'Love me, love my dog,' is my motto.

He had placed as the motto to his book this Latin phrase, which at first excited the curiosity of readers:

'The army first' was their motto.

So wrote Lord Chesterfield to his son, that highly-favoured and much bewritten youth, on March 19, 1750, and his words have been chosen with great cunning by Mr. Charles Strachey as a motto for his new edition of these famous letters.[A]

'The king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.' That was Ezra's motto, quoted by him again and again (Ezra vii.

In all his deliverances, in every one of his mercies, he had seen the good hand of his God, and he had taken those words, 'The good hand of my God upon me,' as the keynote of his praise, and as the motto of his life.

If so, how gladly would Nehemiah hasten to his brother when his duties in the palace were completed, to tell him that Ezra's motto has held good again, for 'the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.'

At the western end is the master's chair, of which by the courtesy of Mr. Higgins, clerk to the Company, we are able to give an illustration on p. 115the shield-shaped back, the carved drapery, and the coat-of-arms with the company's motto, are all characteristic features, as are also the Corinthian columns and arched pediments, in the oak decoration of the room.

"It was a rattlesnake on a white ground, with the motto, 'Don't tread on me!'" I told them of the new flag that our Congress had chosen, describing it in detail.

Mary Howitt quotes as a motto to her poem on Holy Flowers the following example of religious devotion timed by flowers: "Mindful of the pious festivals which our church prescribes," (says a Franciscan Friar)

An African was seen, (as in the figure[A],) in chains in a supplicating posture, kneeling with one knee upon the ground, and with both his hands lifted up to Heaven, and round the seal was observed the following motto, as if he was uttering the words himself"Am I not a Man and a Brother?"