Après des siècles d'esclavage,
Le Belge sortant du tombeau,
A reconquis par son courage,

Son nom, ses droits et son drapeau,
Et ta main souveraine et fière,
Peuple désormais indompté,
Grava sur ta vieille bannière
Le Roi, la loi, la liberté.

The years of slavery are past,
The Belgian rejoices once more;
Courage restores to him at last
The rights he held of yore.
Strong and firm his grasp will be
Keeping the ancient flag unfurled
To fling its message on the watchful world:
For king, for right, for liberty.

LOUIS DECHEZ-La Brabançonne. Belgian
National Anthem. Written during the
Revolution of 1830. Music by François van
Campenhout. Trans. by FLORENCE AT-

or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!

CARLYLE-Heroes and Hero Worship. Lecture IV.

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There is no unbelief;

Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod, He trusts in God.

ELIZ. YORK CASE-Unbelief.

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. EMERSON-Montaigne.

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Credat Judæus Apella non ego.

The Jew Apella may believe this, not I. HORACE Satires. I. 5. 100.

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Better trust all and be deceived,

And weep that trust, and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed,

Had blessed one's life with true believing. FANNY KEMBLE.

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O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing;

The victory's in believing.

LOWELL TO

Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

MONTAIGNE-Essays. Of Divine Ordinances. Bk. I. Ch. XXXI.

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Tarde quæ credita lædunt credimus.

We are slow to believe what if believed would hurt our feelings.

OVID-Heroides. II. 9.

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Incrédules les plus crédules. Ils croient les miracles de Vespasien, pour ne pas croire ceux de Moïse.

The incredulous are the most credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. PASCAL Pensèes. II. XVII. 120.

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And when religious sects ran mad,

He held, in spite of all his learning,
That if a man's belief is bad,

It will not be improved by burning.
PRAED Poems of Life and Manners. Pt. II.
The Vicar. St. 9.