: all 496. THE MINOR, AND SOME OF THE MA- Maxims. 1. If a person feels wrong, he will JOR PASSIONS. The following common ex- be very sure to judge wrong, and thence do pressions are full of meaning: such judg- wrong. 2. Passions strong, judgment wrong, ments are passed every day, concerning dif- the world over. 3. Always do the very best you ferent individuals; "You might have seen it can, and then you'll be a wise man. 4. Children in his eyes the looks of the man is enough; should be encouraged to do, whatever they undertake, in the very best manner. 5. He who he has an honest countenance: his manner aims low, can never hit exalted objects; and he sets every one at his ease; I will trust him who is accustomed to do the best he can, in lower for his honest face; should he deceive me, I things, will be best prepared to attain excellence will never trust any body again; he cannot in the highest. 6. Children should never be allook a person in the face; his appearance is lowed to fall into habits of disorder in anything; against him; he is better (or worse,) than I nor permitted to put things out of order, or make took him to be." 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. 497. ADMONITION assumes a grave air bordering on severity; the head is sometimes shaken at the person we admonish, as if we felt for the miseries he was likely to bring upon himself; the hand is directed to the person spoken to, and the fore-finger, projected from the rest, seems to point more particularly to the danger we give warning of; the voice assumes a low pitch, bordering on a monotone, with a mixture of severity and sympathy of pity, and reproach. 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 MISCELLANEOUS. 1. The habituating chil-justice; because prudence leads us to indren to work for, and serve the poor, particu-quire what is just; and justice alone can larly poor children, with a good will, may prevent that perversion of intellect taking justly be regarded, as tending to promote the reception of the highest order and quality of place, which often passes for prudence, but is heavenly virtue. 2. It is not in knowing the only cunning, the offspring of selfishness, 2. Temperance signifies the right use of the will of God, but in doing it, that we shall be right things, furnished by nature for our enblessed. 3. The noblest aspect in which the joyment, so that they may not injure, but divine majesty of the Lord can be viewed, benefit us; and instead of unfitting us for is that, in which he presented himself, when our duties, dispose and fit us for their perhe said, that he "came, not to be ministered formance. 3. He, who is not temperate, is a unto, but to minister," and how great a priv-slave to his appetites and passions; the slave ilege ought we to esteem it to be, to follow of drinking, gluttony and lust; of pride, his example. 4. What a pity it is, that pa- vanity and ambition; because he is not at rents and teachers are not more anxious to liberty to be, what he was created to be. mend the heart, than furnish the heads of The prophet spoke: when, with a gloomy frown, 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 denyThe 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 pregThe 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 judgment pattern out my death, And nothing come in partial. He must die. The monarch started-from his shining throne; I hate, when vice can bolt her arguments, Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn, If sweet content is banished from my soul, 498. AFFIRMING, with a judicial oath, is expressed by lifting up 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, Laconics. I have seen the flower-withering 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 re and the countenance has all the confidence of a fuse to eat: it spun itself a tomb, and was shroudatrong 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? To 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 glass 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, The world is still deceived by ornament. ed 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 our first and most important duties. 4. Neglected duties never bring happiness: even the 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. And sing the impressive force of SPRING on man: Still-let my song-a nobler note assume, The happiness-of human kind, A villain, when he most seems kind, 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, discretion, 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! What! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man-of all this world, 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! Where friendship-full, exerts her softest power, Ineffable, and sympathy of soul; Laconics. 1. The idle-often delay till tomorrow, 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 vehement 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, though it be more circuitous. 6. Is the soul a mere vapor, a something without either essence or form? 7. Impressions, firmly fixed 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 acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial. VARIETIES. Sleep-seldom visits sorrow; Why, on that brow, dwell sorrow and dismay, Nor joy, nor grieve too much, for things beyond our care. Back on herself, and startles at destruction? Thought, meeting thought, and will preventing will, Obedient passions, and a will resigned; Merit-seldom shows Itself-bedecked in tinsel, or fine clothes; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; Call it diversion, and the pill goes down. 500. Arguing requires a cool, sedate, atten- | Laconics. 1. To know-is one thing, to do, tive aspect, and a close, slow, and emphatical is another. 2. Consider what is said, rather than accent, with much demonstration by the hand; who said it: and the consequence of the arguit assumes somewhat of authority, as if fully convinced of what it pleads for; and sometimes ment, rather than the consequence of him, who rises to great vehemence and energy of action: delivers it. 3. These proverbs, maxims, and laconthe voice clear, distinct, and firm as in confidence.ics, are founded on the facts, that mankind are the REASONING WITH DEFERENCE TO OTHERS. Ay, but yet 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 ge[ing, nius-is the power-of making efforts. 6. The wish-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. Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, [tleman, 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; Cheerful looks-make every dish-a feast, 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 prolong our 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 Thou wouldst still be ador'd, as this moment Like fairy gifts fading away; [thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, It is not while beauty and youth are thy own, 503. AUTHORITY-opens the countenance, but | great, but by keeping his resolutions; no perdraws the eye-brows a little, so as to give the look son ever escaped contempt, who could not an air of gravity. keep them. AUTHORITY FORBIDDING COMBATANTS TO FIGHT. Let them lay by their helmets and their spears, And list what, with our council, we have done. Laconics. 1. Writing and printing serve as clothing to our ideas, by which they become visible 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 error, genuine truth dazzles and blinds us. 3. Habit can only get the better of habit; but beware of changing 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 ef forts; if not in a right, in a wrong way. 6. Consent-is the essence of marriage, the ceremonies-its form, and the duties—its uses. Physiological Ignorance-is undoubtedly, the most abundant source of our sufferings: every person, accustorned 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 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, shall be deeply convinced, that the eternal laws of than that the accidental jumbling of the letNature have connected pain and decrepitude with ters of the alphabet could fall by chance into one mode of life, and health and vigor with another, a most ingenious and learned treatise of phi-they will avoid the former, and adhere to the latter. losophy. On pain of death,-no person be so bold THE BOOK OF NATURE. Let fancy-lead, It is strange, however, to observe, that the generality of mankind do not seem to bestow a single 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 powers and principles. Though wisdom-wake, Suspicion sleeps at wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge; while goodness thinks no ill, Anecdote. Eat Bacon. Dr. Watson, late bishop of Landaff, was enthusiastically at-Tis doing wrong-creates such doubts. These tached to the writings of Lord Bacon; and Render us jealous, and destroy our peace. considered, that no one, desirous of acquiring real sound knowledge, could read the works of that great man too often, or with too much care and attention. It was frequently remarked 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 disease to the body. No person can become Where no ill seems. 'Tis god-like magnanimity-to keep, |