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496. THE MINOR, AND SOME OF THE MA-1 Maxims. 1. If a person fees wrong, he will

JOR PASSIONS. The following common expressions are full of meaning: such judgments are passed every day, concerning dif ferent individuals; "You might have seen it in his eyes: the looks of the man is enough;

he has an honest countenance: his manner sets every one at his ease; I will trust him for his honest face; should he deceive me, I will never trust any body again; he cannot look a person in the face; his appearance is against him; he is better (or worse,) than I took him to be."

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be very sure to judge wrong, and thence do wrong. 2. Passions strong, judgment wrong, all he world over. 3. Always do the very best you can, and then you'll be a wise man. 4. Children should be encouraged to do, whatever they un

dertake, in the very best manner. 5. He who aims low, can never hit exalted objects; and he who is accustomed to do the best he can, in lower things, will be best prepared to attain excellence in the highest. 6. Children should never be allowed to fall into habits of disorder in anything; nor permitted to put things out of order, or make work for others. 7. Of goods, prefer the greatest; of evils choose the least. 8. Children are always more attracted and interested by oral instruction, than by book instruction.

Anecdote. A Quaker was waited on by four of his workmen, to make their compliments to him, and ask for their usual Newyear's gifts. The Quaker told them, There are your gifts, choose fifteen francs, or the Bible. All took the francs, but a lad, about fourteen, who chose the Bible, as the Quaker said it was a good book; and, on opening it he found, between the leaves, a gold piece of forty francs. The others held down their heads, and the giver told them, he was sorry they had not made a better choice.

Varieties. 1. We cannot be truly just, without prudence, or truly prudent, without justice; because prudence leads us to in

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MISCELLANEOUS. 1. The habituating children to work for, and serve the poor, particu-quire what is just; and justice alone can

larly poor children, with a good will, may justly be regarded, as tending to promote the reception of the highest order and quality of heavenly virtue. 2. It is not in knowing the will of God, but in doing it, that we shall be blessed. 3. The noblest aspect in which the divine majesty of the Lord can be viewed, is that, in which he presented himself, when he said, that he "came, not to be ministered

unto, but to minister;" and how great a privilege ought we to esteem it to be, to follow his example. 4. What a pity it is, that pa

rents and teachers are not more anxious to mend the heart, than furnish the heads of their children and pupils! 5. Charity is something more than a word, or wish; it is the consistent practice of true wisdom.

Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall. I not deny-
The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
May, on the sworn twelve, have a thief or two,
Guiltier than him they try; what's open made
To justice, that it seizes on. What know [nant,
The laws, that thieves do pass on thieves? 'tis preg-
The jewel that we find, we stoop and tak't
Because we see it; but what we do not see,
We tread upon, and never think of it.
You may not so extenuate his offence,
For I have had such faults; but rather tell me
When I, that censure him, do not so offend,
Let mine own judgrient pattern out my death,
And nothing come in partial. He must die.

prevent that perversion of intellect taking place, which often passes for prudence, but is only cunning, the offspring of selfishness. 2. Temperance signifies the right use of the right things, furnished by nature for our enjoyment, so that they may not injure, but benefit us; and instead of unfilling us for our duties, dispose and fit us for their performance. 3. He, who is not temperate, is a

slave to his appetites and passions; the slave of drinking, gluttony and lust; of pride, vanity and ambition; because he is not at

liberty to be, what he was created to be.
The prophet spoke: when, with a gloomy frown,
The monarch started-from his shining throne;
Black choler filled his breast, that boil'd with in,
And, from his eyeballs, flashed the living fire.

Of beasts, it is confessed the ape-
Comes nearest us--in human shape;
Like man, he imitates each fashion;
And malice-is his ruling passion.
I hate, when vice can bolt her arguments,
And virtue has no tongue, to check her pride
But not to me return

Day, or the sweet approach of even and mon,
But cloud instead, and ever-during dark
Surrounds me.

If sweet content is banished from my soul,
Life grows a burden, and a weight of woe.
Music-moves us, and we know not why;
We feel the tears, but cannot trace their souror.

498. AFFIRMING, with a judicial oath, is expressed by lifting ap the right hand and eyes towards heaven; if conscience be applied to, by laying the right hand upon the breast exactly upon the heart; the voice low and solemn, the words slow and deliberate; but when the affirmation is mixed with rage or resentment, the voice is more open and loud, the words quicker,

and the countenance has all the confidence of a strong and peremptory assertion.

Notes. The Duke had reproached Lord Thurlow with his plebeian extraction and his recent admission to the peerage. He rose from the woolsack and advanced slowly to the place from which the chancellor addresses the house, then fixing his eye on the Duke (in the words of a spectator,) "with the look of Jove when he has grasped the thunder," spoke as follows:

My Lords-I am amazed; yes my Lords, I am amazed at his grace's speech. The noble duke cannot look before him, behind him, or on either side of him, without seeing some noble peer, who owes his seat in this house to his successful exertions, in the profession to which I belong. Does he not feel that it is as honorable, to owe it to these, as to being the accident of an accident?

all these noble lords, the language of the noble duke is as applicable, and as insulting, as it is to myself. But I don't fear to meet it single and alone. No one venerates the peerage more than I do-but, my lords, I must say, that the peerage solicited me,-not I the peerage.

Nay more, I can say, and will say, that as a peer of parliament as speaker of this right honorable house, as keeper of the great seal,-as guardian of his majesty's conscience, -as lord high chancellor of England-nay, even in that character alone, in which the noble duke would think it an affront to be considered-but which character none can deny me as a MAN, I am, at this time, as much respected, as the proudest peer I now look down upon.

A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd!
Well fitted in the arts, glorious in arms;
Nothing becomes him ill, that he would well.
The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss,
(If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil,)

Is a sharp wit match'd with too blunt a will: [wills
Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will still
It should none spare that come within his power.

Anecdote. Butler, Bishop of Durham, and author of the Analogy, being applied to for a charitable subscription, asked his steward what money he had in his house; the steward informed him there were five hundred pounds. "Five hundred pounds!" said the bishop; "what a shame for a bishop to have such a sum in his possession!" And he ordered it all to be given to the poor immediately.

Bold with joy,
Forth from his lonely hiding-place,
(Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism,
Sailing on obscure wings athwart the noon,
Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close,
Ard, hooting at the glorious sun in heaven,
Cries out, "Where is it?"

The world 1; still deceived by ornament.

Laconics. I have seen the flower--wither ing on the stalk, and its bright leaves-spread on the ground. I looked again; it sprung forth afresh; its stem was crowed with new buds, and its sweetness filled the air. I have seen the sun set in the west, and the shades of night shut in the wide horizon: there was no color or shape, nor beauty, nor music; gloom and darkness brooded around. I looked! the sun broke forth again upon the east, and gilded the mountain-tops; the lark rose-to meet him from her low nest, and the shades of darkness fled away. I have seen the insect, being come to its full size, languish, and refuse to eat: it spun itself a tomb, and was shrouded in the silken cone: it lay without feet, or shape, or power to move. I looked again: it had burst its tomb; it was full of life, and sailed on colored wings through the soft air; it rejoiced in its new being.

Varieties. 1. Many a young lady can chatter in French or Italian, thrum the piano, and paint a little, and yet be ignorant of housekeeping, and not know how even to make a loaf of bread, roast a piece of meat, or make a palatable soup. 2. It is a false idea to think of elevating woman to her right position of intelligence and influence in society, without making her thoroughly and practically acquainted with the details of domestic life. 3. It is wrong for either men or women, to bury themselves in their everyday avocation, to the neglect of intellectual and moral culture, and the social amenities of life: but it is still worse to give exclusive attention to the latter, and utterly neglect the former; because, in the former are involved lected duties never bring happiness: even our first and most important duties. 4. Negthe best of society would fail to delight, if enjoyed at the expense of human duties. 5. That which is our duty should always take precedence: otherwise no effort to obtain happiness can be successful.

Still-let my song-a nobler note assume,
And sing the impressive force of SPRING on man:
Then, HEAVEN-and earth, as if contending, vie
To raise his being, and serene-his soul.

Can he forbear-to join the general smile
Of NATURE? Can fierce passions-vex his breast,
While every gale is peace, and every grove

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Is melody?

The happiness of human kind,
Consists in rectitude of mind,-
A will subdued to reason's sway,
And passions-practiced to obey:
An open-and a generous heart,
Refined from selfishness and art;
Patience, which mocks-at fortune's power,

And wisdom-neither sad, nor sour.
Never forget our loves, but always cling
To the fixed hope-th't there will be a time.-
When we can meet--unfetter'd-and be blest-
With the full happiness of certain love.

A villain, when he most seems kind,
Is most to be suspected.

499. REVISION. Having gone thro', briefly, with the major passions, and given illustrations of each, before dismissing these important subjects, it may be useful to present the minor ones; occasionally alluding to the principal ones. The accompanying engraving represents calm fortitude, disfretion, benevolence, goodness, and nobility. Admiration may also be

combined with amazement: surprise, (which signifies-taken on a sudden,) may, for a moment, startle; astonishment may stupefy, and cause an entire suspension of the faculties; but AMAZEMENT has also a mixture of perturbation; as the word means to be in a maze, so as not to be able to collect one's self: there is no mind that may not, at times, be thrown into amazement at the awful

dispensations of Providence.

ADMONITION TO ACT JUSTLY.

Remember March, the ides of MARCH remember!

Did not great Julius-bleed for JUSTICE' sake?
What villain touch'd his body, that did stan,
And not for justice?

What! shall one of us,

That struck the foremost man of all this world,
But for supporting robbers, shall we-now-
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes?
And sell the mighty space of our large honors,
For so much trash-as may be grasped thus?
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon,
Than SUCH a Roman.

Anecdote. Ethelwold, bishop of Winchester, in king Edgar's time, sold the gold and silver vessels belonging to the church, to relieve the poor, during a famine, saying: "There is no reason, that the senseless temples of God, should abound in riches, while his living temples ware perishing with hunger."

DOMESTIC LOVE AND HAPPINESS.

O happy they! the happiest of their kind!
Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate

Laconics. 1. The idle often delay till to morrow, what ought to be done to-day. 2. Science is the scribe, and theology the interpreter of God's works. 3. Regret is unavailing, when a debt is contracted; tho' a little prudence, might have prevented its being incurred. 4. A loud, or vehmen? mode of delivery, accompanied by a haughty action, may render an expression highly offensive; but which would be perfectly harmless, if pronounced properly. 5. Dishonesty chooses the most expeditious route; virtue the right one, thougin it be more circuitous. 6. Is the soul a mere vapor, a something without either essence or form? 7. Impressions, firmly fized in the mind, and long cherished, are erased with great difficulty; how important, then, they should be good ones.

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and he loves us better too. He, that wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate ac

quaintance with our object, and compels.us

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VARIETIES.

Sleep-seldom visits sorrow;

When it does, it is a comforter.

Why, on that brow, dwell sorrow and dismay,
Where loves were wont to sport, and smiles to plav
With equal mind, what happens, let us bear,

Nor joy, nor grieve too much, for things beyond our carль.
Thus, my fleeting days, at last,
Unheeded, silently are passed,
Calmly-shall I resign my breath,

In life-unknown, forgot-in death.

Love never reasons, but profusely gives;
Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
And trembles then, lest it has done too little
Tho' all seems lost, 'tis impious-to despair;
The tracks of Providence-like rivers-wind.
Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?"
'Tis the Divinity-that stirs within us.

Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. Still raise for good-the supplicating voice,

Tis not the coarser tie of human laws,
Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind,

That binds their peace, but harmony itself,

Attuning all their passions into love;

Where friendship-full, exerts her softest power,
Perfect esteem, enliven'd by desire

Ineffable, and sympathy of soul;
Thought, meeting thought, and will preventing will,
With boundless confidence: for nought but love
Can answer love, and render bliss secure.

Merit seldom shows
Itself-bedecked in tinsel, or fine clothes;
But, hermit-like, 'tis oft'ner us'd to fly,
And hide its beauties-in obscurity.

For p.aces in the court, are but like beds-
In the hospital; where this man's head-lies
At that man's foot, and so, tower and lower.

But leave to HEAVEN the measure, and the chows
Safe in His power, whose eye discerns afar
The secret ambush of a specious prayer.
Implore His aid; in His decisions rest;
Secure-whate'er He gives, he gives the best.
Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires,
And strong devotion to the skies aspires,
Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind,
Obedient passions, and a will resigned;
For love, which scarce collective man can fill;
For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill;
For faith, that, panting for a happier seat,
Counts death-kind nature's signal of retreat:
These goods for man-the laws of heaven ordain,
These goods He grants, who grants the power c
With these celestial wisdom calms the mind, [gain,
And makes the happiness-she does not find.

Call it diversion, and the pill goes down

500. Arguing requires a cool, sedate attentive aspect, and a close, slow, and emphatical accent, with much demonstration by the hand; it assumes somewhat of authority, as if fully convinced of what it pleads for; and sometimes rises to great vehemence and energy of action: the voice clear, distinct, and firm as in confidence.

REASONING WITH DEFERENCE TO OTHERS.

Ay, but yet

Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,
[tleman,
Than fall and bruise to death. Alas! this gen-
Whom I would save, had a most noble father!
Let but your honor know, (whom I believe
To be most straight in virtue) whether, in
The working of your own affections,
[ing,
Had time cohered with place, or place with wish
Or, that the resolute acting of your blood, [pose,
Could have attain'd the effect of your own pur-
Whether you had not some time in your life,
Err'd in this point, you censure now in him,
And pull'd the law upon you.

591. AFFECTATION-displays itself in a thousand different gestures, airs, and looks, according to the character which the person affects. Affectation of learning gives a stiff formality to the whole person: the words come stalking out with the pace of a funeral procession, and every sentence has the solemnity of an oracle. Affectation of pity-turns up the goggling whites of the eye to heaven, as if the person was in a trance, and fixes them in that posture so long, that the brain of the beholder grows giddy: then comes up deep grumbling, a holy groan from the lower part of the thorax, but so tremendous in sound, and so long protracted, that you expect to see a goblin rise, like an exhalation from the solid earth thus he begins to rock, from side to side, or backward and forward, like an aged pine on the side of a hill, when a brisk wind blows: the hands are clasped together, and often lifted, and the head shaken with foolish vehemence; the tone of voice is canting, or a sing-song lullaby, not much removed from an Irish howl, and the words godly doggerel. AFFECTATION OF BEAUTY, and killing-puts a fine woman, by turns, into all sorts of forms, appearances and attitudes, but amiable ones: she undoes by art, or rather awkwardness, all that nature has done for her; for nature formed her almost an angel and she, with infinite pains. makes herself a monkey: this species of affectation is easily imitated, or taken off: in doing which, make as many, and as ugly grimaces, motions and gestures, as can be made; and take care that nature never peeps out; thus you may represent coquettish affectation to the life.

Anecdote. A nobleman advised a bishop to make an addition to his house, of a new wing, in modern style. The prelate answered him, "The difference between your advice and that which the devil gave to our Saviour is, that Satan advised Jesus to change stones into bread, that the poor might be fed; and you desire me to turn the bread of the poor into stones.

A wise poor man,

Is like a sacred book that's never read;
To himself he lives, and to all else seema dead:
This age thinks better of a gilded foo.,
Than of a threadbare sait. in wisdom's school.
Cheer'ul looks-make every dish-a feast,
And is that CROWNS a welcome.

Laconics. 1. To know is one thing, to do. is another. 2 Consider what is said, rather than who said it: and the consequence of the argument, rather than the consequence of him, who delivers it. 3. These proverbs, maxims, and laconics, are founded on the facts, that mankind are the same, and that the passions are the disturbing forces; the greater or less prevalence of which, give individuality to character. 4. If parents give their children an improper education, whose is the misfortune, and whose the crimes? 5. The greater your facilities are for acquiring knowledge, the greater should be your efforts and genius-is the power of making efforts. 6. The world's unfavorable views of conduct and character, are as floating clouds, from which the brightest day is not free. 7. Never marry-but for love; and see that thou lovest only what is lovely.

This World. What is the happiness that this world can give? Can it defend us from disasters? Can it preserve our hearts from grief, our eyes from tears, or our feet from falling? Can it prolongour comforts? Can it multiply our days? Can it redeem ourselves, or our friends from death? Can it soothe the king of terrors, or initigate the agonies of the dying?

VARIETIES.

Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn.
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed;
The next, in majesty; in both, the last.
The force of nature could no further go;
To make a third, she join'd the former two.

Under a portrait of Milton-Dryden.

The poetry of earth is never dead!-
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run,
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;
That is the grasshopper's; -he takes the lead
In summer luxury; he has never done

With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed The poetry of earth is ceasing never!

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wro't a silence from the stove, there shrills The cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one, in drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,

Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, [arms, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my Like fairy gifts fading away; [thou art, Thou wouldst still be ador'd, as this moment Let thy loveliness fade as it will,

And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart,
Would entwine itself verdantly still.

It is not while beauty and youth are thy own,
And thy cheeks unprofan'd by a tear,
That the fervor and faith of a soul can be known,
To which time will but make thee more dear.
Oh! the heart that has truly lov'd, never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close;

As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rase

503. AUTHORITY-opens the countenance, but | great, but by keeping his resolutions; no per

draws the eye-brows a little, so as to give the look an air of gravity.

AUTHORITY FORBIDDING COMBATANTS TO FIGHT.

Let them lay by their helmets and their spears,
And both return back to their chairs again:-
Withdraw from us, and let the trumpet sound;
Draw near-

And list what, with our council, we have done.
For that our kingdom's earth-should not be soil'd,
With that dear blood which it hath foster'd;
And for our eyes-doth hate the dire aspect,
Or civil wounds, plough'd up with neighbor's swords:
Ti erefore, we banish you our territories:
You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of death,
Till twice five summers have enriched our fields,
Shall not regret our fair dominions,
But tread the stranger paths of banishment.

504. Philosophers say, that man is a microcosm, or a little world, resembling in miniature every part of the great; and, in our opinion, the body natural may be compared to the body politic; and if that be so, how can the Epicurean's opinion be true, that the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms? which we will no more believe, than that the accidental jumbling of the letters of the alphabet could fall by chance into a most ingenious and learned treatise of philosophy.

On pain of death, no person be so bold
Or daring hardy, as to touch the lists,
Except the marshal, and such officers
Appointed to direct these fair designs.

THE BOOK OF NATURE.

Let fancy-lead,

And be it ours-to follow, and admire,
As well we may, the graces infinite
Of nature. Lay aside the sweet resource
That winter needs, and may at will obtain,
Of authors, chaste and good, and let us read
The living page, whose every character
Ddights, and gives us wisdom. Not a tree,
A plant, a leaf, a blossom, but contains
A folio volume. We may read, and read,
And read again, and still find something new,
Something to please, and something to instruct,
C'en in the noisome weed.

son ever escaped contempt, who could not keep them.

Laconics. 1. Writing and printing serve as clothing to our ideas, by which they become visi. ble in forms, and permanent in duration; thus, painters speak of embodying the fleeting colors of beautiful flowers, by fixing them in some earthly substance. 2. When the pupil of our intellectual eyes becomes adjusted to the darkness of enor, genuine truth dazzles and blinds us. 3. Habit car only get the better of habit; but beware of chang ing one bad habit for another. 4. The torch of improvement, is destined to pass from hand to hand; and what, tho' we do not see the order? 5 When nature is excited, she will put forth her forts; if not in a right, in a wrong way. 6. Con

sent is the essence of marriage, the ceremonies-its form, and the duties-its uses.

Physiological Ignorance-is undoubt

edly, the most abundant source of our sufferings: every person, accustomed to the sick, must have heard them deplore their ignorance-of the necessary consequences of those practices, by which their health has been destroyed and when men shall be deeply convinced, that the eternal laws of Nature have connected pain and decrepitude with one mode of life, and health and vigor with another, they will avoid the former, and adhere to the latter It is strange, however, to observe, that the gener ality of mankind do not seem to bestow a singl thought on the preservation of their health, till it is too late to reap any benefit from their conviction If knowledge of this kind were generally diffused, people would cease to imagine, that the human constitution was so badly contrived, that a state of general health could be overset by every trifle; for instance, by a little cold; or that the recovery of it lay concealed in a few drops, or a pill. Did they better understand the nature of chronic diseases, and the causes which produce them, they could not be so unreasonable as to think, that they might live as they choose, with impunity: or did they know anything of medicine, they would soon be convinced, that though fits of pain have been relieved, and sickness cured, for a time, the re-establishment of health-depends on very different

Anecdote. Eat Bacon. Dr. Watson, late powers and principles.

bishop of Landaff, was enthusiastically attached to the writings of Lord Bacon; and considered, that no one, desirous of acquiring real sound knowledge, could read the works of that great man too often, or with too much cure and attention. It was frequently reraarked by him-" If a man wishes to become wise, he should eat Bacon."

Making Resolutions. Never form a resolution that is not a good one; and, when once formed, never break it. If you form a resolution, and then break it, you set yourself a bad example, and you are very likely to follow it. A person may get the habit of breaking his resolutions; this is as bad to the character and mind, as an incurable distase to the body. No person can become

Tis doing wrong-creates such doubts. These
Render us jealous, and destroy our peace.

Though wisdom-wake,

Suspicion sleeps at wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge; while goodness thinks no il,

Where no ill seems.

'Tis god-like magnanimity to keep,

When most provoked, our reason calm, and clear
Christianity-depends on fact;
Religion-is not theory, but act.
Amid thy bowers-the tyrant's hand is seen,
And desolation-reddens all thy green.
No; there is none, no ruler of the stars;
Regardful of my miseries,-saith despair.
Calm, and serene, he sees approaching death,
As the safe port, the peaceful. silent shore,
Where he may rest,-life's tedious voyage o'er.

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