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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 543 that earth where it first knew pleasure and pain and under the rough discipline of the passions was roused to the dignity of moral life Is it only that our country contains our kindred and our friends And is it nothing hut name for our social aifec- tions It cannot be this the most friendless of human beings has country which he admires and extols and which he would in the same circumstances prefer to all others under heaven Tempt him with the fairest face of nature place him by living waters under shadowy trees of Lebanon open to his view all the gorgeous allurements of the climates of the sun -he will love the rocks and deserts of his childhood better than all these and thou canst not bribe his soul to forget the land of his nativity he will sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon when he remembers thee Ο Sion Sydney Smith Write short essay on the Bourgeois Gentilhomme unman Translate into German Dumfries is pleasant town containing fifteen thousand inhabitants It may be considered as the centre of district which possesses some importance in the sphere of Scottish activity John Copeland refused to give up his prisoner the King of Scotland to Queen Philippa though she wrote to him with Iter own hand and commanded him to give up the royal prisoner The names of some of the most ancient departments of human knowledge tell their own tales Geometry began with measuring garden or field The founders of astronomy were not the poet or the philosopher but the sailor and the farmer Prince Eugeue was the fifth son and therefore destined for the Church He had received the title of