If, in afterwards dividing this money with your companions, you say you have been sharing booty, you have committed an offence against the laws of your country; but if you observe that you have been sharing with your friends the gains of your industry, you have been performing one of the noblest actions of humanity.

To knock a man on the head is neither virtuous nor guilty, but it depends upon the language applied to the action to make it murder or glory.

Why not say, then, that you have testified the courage of a hero, rather than the atrocity of a ruffian?
This is perfectly clear, is it not ?" [We observe in a paragraph from an American paper, copied without comment into the "Morning Chronicle," a singular proof of the truth of Tomlinson's philosophy! "Mr.Rowland Stephenson," so runs the extract, "the celebrated English banker, has just purchased a considerable tract of land," etc.

Most philosophical of paragraphists! "Celebrated English banker!"-- that sentence is a better illustration of verbal fallacies than all Ben tham's treatises put together.

"Celebrated!" O Mercury, what a dexterous epithet!] "It seems so," answered Paul.
"It is so self-evident that it is the way all governments are carried on.