~Antiquarian.~--A thorough-paced antiquarian not only remembers what all
other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all
other people think it proper to remember.--_Colton._
The earliest and the longest has still the mastery over us.--_George
Eliot._
~Antithesis.~--Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis,
and employ it.--_Bruyere._
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at
maturity unless sound sense be the trunk, and truth the root.--_Colton._
~Apology.~--An apology in the original sense was a pleading off from some
charge or imputation, by explaining or defending principles or conduct.
It therefore amounted to a vindication.--_Crabbe._