529. MALICE, or Spite, is a habitual malevolence, long continued, and watching occasion to exert itself on the hated object; this hateful disposition sets the jaws and gnashes the teeth, sends blasting flashes from the eyes, stretches the mouth horizontally, clinches the fists, and bends the elbows in a straining manner to the body; the tone of voice, and expression, are much the same as in anger, but not so loud; which see. These two engravings represent, the smaller one, revengeful hatred, and the other, abhorrence, fear, contempt, without power, or courage. How like a fawning publican he looks! He .ends out money gratis, and brings down MELANCHOLY-discloses its symptoms accord ing to the sentiments and passions of the minde it affects. An ambitious man fancies himself a lord, statesman, minister, king, emperor, or monarch, and pleases his mind with the vain hopes of even future preferment. The mind of a covetous man sees nothing but his re or spe, and looks at the most valuable objects with an eye of hope, or with the fond conceit, that they are already his own. A love-sick brain adores, in romantic strains, the lovely idol of his heart, or sighs in real misery, at her fancied frowns. And a scholar's mind evaporates in the fumes of imaginary praise and literary distinction. Anecdote. Routs. "How strange it is," said a lady, "that fashionable parties should be called routs? Why, rout, formerly sig nified-the defeat of an army; and when soldiers were all put to flight, or to the sword, they were said to be routed!" "This title has some propriety too;" said an observer of men and things, "for at these meetings, whole families are frequently routed out of house and home." Varieties. 1. Agriculture-is the true foundation of all trade and industry; and of course, the foundation of individual and national riches. 2. When the moon, on a clear, autumnal evening, is moving through the heavens in silent glory, the earth-seems like a slumbering babe, smiling in its sleep, because it dreams of heaven. 3. The truths of science are not only useful, in themselves, but their influence is exceedingly beneficial in mental culture. 4. Let your amusements be select and temperate, and such as will fit you for the better performance of your du ties; all others are positively injurious. 5. Raise the edifice of your virtue and happi 530. MELANCHOLY, or Fixed Grief, is gloomy, sedentary, and motionless. The lower jaw falls, the lips are pale, the eyes cast down, half shut, the eyelids swollen and red, or livid tears trickling silently and unmixed,ness, on the sure foundation of true religion, with total inattention to anything that passes. Words, if any, are few, and those dragged out rather than spoken; the accents weak and interrupted, sighs breaking into the middle of words and sentences. There is a stupid weight-upon my senses; Of melancholy-is a fearful gift; Moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to grief and comfortless despair. Wrth makes the man, and want of it the fellow. or love to God, and love to man. 6. That That I must die, it is my only comfort; Sorrow treads heavily, and leaves a print,polkurš And coming events-cast heir shadows before. Admiration and Love. There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, al 531. PARDONING-differs from acquitting, in his-the latter-means clearing a person, after trial, of guilt; whereas, the former-supposes guilt, and signifies merely delivering the guilty person from punishment; pardoning requires some de-ways dwells on great objects, and terrible; gree of severity of aspect, and tone of voice, be- the latter on small ones, and pleasing; we cause the pardoned one is not an object of active, submit to what we admire, but we love what unmixed approbation; otherwise, its expression Is much the same as granting; which see. submits to us; in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance. PARDONING A CRUEL PERSECUTION. [men. We pardon thee; live on, the state hath need of Great souls-forgive not injuries, till time Laconics. 1. Every one, who would be an orator, should study Longinus on the sublime. ? Many of our books, containing pieces for decla mation, remind one of a physician's leaving medicine with a patient, without directions how to taks it. 3. Would it not be well for some competent person to compile a work, to be called "Songs of the People," for all trades and avocations? 4. Letters and words are like the notes of a tune, representative of sounds and ideas. 5. Descriptive speech and writing, are like landscape painting. 6. The natural world is an allegory, the meaning of which we may find in ourselves. 7. Were a spectator to come from the other world, into many of our congregations, he would regard the sing ing, and perhaps the worship, as any thing but devotional. 532. PERPLEXITY, IRRESOLUTION, ANXIETY, are always attended with some degree of fear; it collects the body together, as if for gathering up the arms upon the breast, rubs the forehead, the eyebrows contracted, the head hanging on the breast, the eyes cast downward, the mouth shut, the lips compressed; suddenly, the whole body is Varieties. 1. He, who will peep into a agitated, alters its aspect, as having discovered something; then, falls into contemplation as be- drawer, will likely be tempted to take somefore; the motions of the body are restless and une-thing out of it; and he, who steals a cent in qual; sometimes moving quick, and sometimes slow; the pauses, in speaking to another, long, the tone of voice uneven, the sentences broken and unfinished; sometimes talks to himself, or makes grimaces, and keeping half of what arises in the mind. Yes; 'tis Emilia:-by and by-she's dead. his youth, will be very apt to steal a dollar in manhood. 2. A great change in life, is like a cold bath in winter; we all hesitate to make the first plunge. 3. The farther you advance in any art, or science, the more will you be delighted with simplicity of manner, and less attracted by superficial ornament. 4. One of the grand objects of education is-to collect principles and apply them to practice; and when this is generally done, mankind will be brought nearer to equality. 5. It is as imAnecdote. Peter the Great made a law, possible for us to understand a thing, without in 1722, that if any nobleman beat, or ill-having the image of it on the retina of the treated his slaves, he should be looked upon mind's eye, as it is to see any thing, without as insane, and a guardian be appointed, to having its image on the retina of the bodily take care of his person and estate. The great monarch once struck his gardener, who, be-eye. 6. Is not the education of children, for time and eternity, the highest social, civil, ing a man of great sensibility, took to his bed, moral and religious duty, we are called upand died in a few days. Peter, on hearing of on to perform? this, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes: I have civilized my subjects; I have conquered other nations; yet I have not been able to civilize and conquer myself. There is no remedy for time misspent, No healing-for the waste of idleness, Not now-to be redeemed! ye sting not less And shape his acts, and discipline his mind, PLEASURE OF PIETY. A Deity-believ'd, is joy begun; Of man-in audience with the Deity. Punishments. There are dreadful pun much better to make such good provisions, by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing, and of being imprisoned, or dying for it. 533. MODESTY-is a diffidence of ourselves, accompanied with delicacy in our sense of what-ishments enacted against thieves; but it were ever is mean, indirect, or dishonorable, or a fear of doing these things, or of having them imputed to us. Submission is an humble sense of our inferiority, and a quiet surrender of our power to a superior. Modesty bends the body forward; has a placid, downcast countenance, bends the eyes to the breast, if not to the feet, of the superior character; the voice is low, the tone submissive, and the words few. Submission adds to them a lower bending of the head, and a spreading out of the arms and hands, downwards towards the person submitted to. Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test of my metal, O noble sir! Your ever kindnesss doth wring tears from me ; Varieties. 1. Some politicians consider honesty excellent in theory,-and policy safe in practice; thus admitting the absurd theory, that principles entirely false, and corrupt in the abstract, are more salutary in their practical manifestation, than principles essentially good and true. 2. In public and private life, in the learned and unlearned professions, in scenes of business, and in the domestic circle, the masterpiece of man is decision of character. 3. The moral sense of the people, is the sheetanchor, which alone can hold the vessel o. state, amidst the storms that agitate the world. 4 True religion has nothing to fear, but much to hope, from the progress of scientific truths. 5. A writer or speaker should aim so to please, as to do his hearers and readers the greatest amount of good. 6. It is not the part of a lover of truth, either to cavil or reject, without due examination. 7. Ill man As lamps burn silent with unconscious light, As turns a flock of geese, and, on the green, Worcester! get thee gone; for I do see O sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory, So war their quills, when sons of Dullness write. Must still be strangled in its birth: or time When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Every man in this age has not a soul That they hold no intelligence. Something heavy on my spirit, Anecdote. One of the emperors of China Twixt earth and heaven, like envy between met a procession, conducting some malefactors to punishment. On being informed of the facts, he burst into tears; when one of his courtiers endeavored to comfort him, saying, "In a commonwealth, there must be punishment; it cannot be avoided, as mankind now are." His majesty replied, "I weep not, to see those men prisoners, nor to see them chastised; I know the good must be protected from the bad; but I weep, because my time is not so happy as that of old was, when the virtues of the princes were such, that they served as a bridle to the people, and their example was sufficient to restrain a whole kingdom." To recount Almighty works, What words, or tongue, of seraph-can suffice? And man, an everlasting mist. SONNET. Like an enfranchised bird, that wildl; springs, Glad and exulting in its liberty: And feebly fluttering, sinks to earth once more- [man My heart still feels the weight of that remember'd sham, Whole years of joy glide unperceived away, While sorrow counts the minutes as they pass. 535. FRYMISING is expressed by benevolent toks, a soft but earnest voice, and sometimes by Inclining the head, or nod of consent; the hands open with palm upward, toward the person to whom the promise is made: sincerity in promising is express'd by laying the hand gently on the heart. I'll deliver all, And promise you calm seas, auspicious gales, I will be true to thee, preserve thee ever, Where'er I go, my soul shall stay with thee; 536. REFUSING,-when accompanied with Laconics. 1. We must be instr ac ed y all things of one thing, if we would know that one thing thoroughly. 2. The evolution of the natural sciences, amounts to the creation of a new sphere, in the human mind. 3. All truths, scientific, philo sophical and theological, are in perfect harmony with each other. 4. The use, or effect, which produces the end, must be the first point of analytic inquiry; i, e. first the fact, or result, and ther, the reasoning upon it. 5. When it is impossible, to trace effects to visible causes, the mental sight myst take up, and complete the operation. 6. There is a universal analogy between all the spheres of creation, natural, mental and spiritual, and between nature, and all things in human society. Nature-is simple and easy, it is man that is diffi cult and perplexed. Genius. They say of poets, that they must be born such; so must mathematicians, so must great generals, and so must lawyers, and so, indeed, must men of all denominations, or it is not possible that they should excel; but with whatever faculties we are follow-born, and to whatever studies our genius may They answer-in a joint-and corporate voice, Pride. The disesteem and contempt of others is inseparable from pride. It is hardly possible to overvalue ourselves, but by undervaluing our neighbors; and we commonly most undervalue those, who are, by other men, thought to be wiser than we are; and it is a kind of jealousy in ourselves that they are so, which provokes our pride. They said, her cheek of youth was beautiful, direct us, studies they still must be. Nature Light grief is proud of state, and courts compassion; Let coward guilt, with pallid fear, As in the blaze of day. Varieties. 1. When you can do it, with Till withering sorrow blanch'd the white rose there; out injury to truth and mercy, always avoid But grief did lay his icy finger on it, a quarrel and a lawsuit. 2. When the foundation of our hope is assailed, ought we not Anecdote. Garrick and Hogarth, sitting to contend, earnestly, for the faith once delivtogether one day, mutually lamented the ered to the saints? 3. When there is a right want of a picture of Fielding; "I think," said desire, and an untiring industry, there will, Garrick, "I could make his face;" which he eventually, be the reward of light. 4. They, did accordingly. "For heaven's sake, hold," who understand most of a subject, will be ve said Hogarth,"remain as you are a few min-ry indulgent to those, who know but little of utes;" he did so, while the painter sketched it. 5. If we are unwilling to do anything for the outlines, which were afterwards finished ourselves, how can we expect others will do from their mutual recollection: and this draw-much for us? 6. Every deceiver, whether by ing was the original of all the portraits we have of the admired Tom Jones. He that holds fast the golden mean, The little-and the great, Feels not the wants-that pinch the poor, The tallest pines-feel most-the power The bolts-that span the mountain side, And spread the ruin round. Nature-is frugal, and her wants are few. word, or deed, is a liar; and no one, that has Whether present, or absent, you always appear, And a perpetual feast-of nectar'd sweets, Seeming devotion doth but gild the knave, Pierced with a sharp remorse for guilt, In whose benign, redeeming flow- Of guiltless joy-that guilt can know. Shall turn to fragrant bulm-in Heaven! 538. SECURITY-diminishes the passions; the mind, when left to itself, immediately languishes; and, in order to preserve its ardor, must be every moment supported by a new flow of passion. For the same reason, despair, though contrary to security, has a like influence. 539. RAILLERY, in sport, without real animosity, puts on the aspect of cheerfulness, and sometimes a kind of simple laughter.-and the tone of voice is sprightly. With contempt or disgust, it casts a look asquint from time to time, at the object, and quits the cheerful aspect, for one mixed between an affected grin and sourness: the upper lip is drawn up with a smile of disdain: the arms sometimes set a-kimbo on the hips, and the right hand now and then thrown out towards the object, as if they were going to strike one a backhanded blow; voice rather loud, arch and meaning; sentences short, expressions satirical, with mock-praise occasionally intermixed. for. You have done that, which you should be sorry To you for gold-to pay my legions; Which you denied me; was that done, like Cassius? Should I-have answered Caius Cassius thus Anecdote. A young gentleman, the son of his Majesty's printer, who had the patent for publishing Gibbon's works,) made his ap pearance, at an assembly, dressed in green and gold. Being a new face, and extremely elegant, though he was not overstocked with sense, he attracted much attention, and a general murmur prevailed, to know who he was. A lady replied, loud enough to be heard by the stranger, "Oh! don't you know him? It is young Gibbon, bound in calf, and gilt; but not lettered." Seeing Right. He, only, sees well, who sees the whole, in the parts, and the parts, in the whole. I know but three classes of men, those who see the whole, those who see but a part, and those who see both together. Varieties. 1. He, who lives well, and believes aright, will be saved; but he, who does not live well, and believe aright, cannot be saved. 2. Let times be ever so good, if you are slothful, you will be in want: but let times be ever so bad, if you are diligent in the performance of duty, you will prosper. 3. The reptile, in human form, should be avoided with great care. 4. If the sun is to be seen by its own light, must not the truth be seen in like manner? The soundest ar gument will produce no more conviction in an empty head, than the most superficial de lamation; as a feather and a guinea will fa with equal velocity, in a vacuum. 5. As light-has no color, water--no taste, and air-no odor, so, knowledge should be equally pure, and without admixture. 6. We should have a glorious conflagration, if all, who cannot put fire into their books, would consent to put their books into the fire. 7. The union of truth and goodness-is like that of water and fire, which nothing can resist. As up the tower of knowledge slow we rise, Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf, It is in vain, that we would coldly gaze- |