Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves! divine truths are designed to perfect the hu

To swell small things to great; nay, out of nought, not be ashamed to own, that he has been in

528. JUDGING-demands a grave, steady look, with deep attention, the countenance altogether clear from any appearance, either of disgust, or favor: the pronunciation slow, distinct, and emphatical, accompanied with little action, and that

very grave.

JUDGING ACCORDING TO STRICT LAW.

If you refuse-to wed Demetrius-
Either must you die the death, or abjure,
Forever, the society of men.

Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires,
Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
Whether, not yielding to your father's choice,
You can endure the livery of a nun;
For aye-to be in a shady cloister mew'd;
Chaunting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
Take time to pause, and, by the next new moon,
(The sealing day betwixt my love and me,
For everlasting bond of fellowship,)
Upon that day, either prepare to die,
For disobedience to your father's will,
Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
Or on Diana's altar to protest-
For age--austerity-and single life.

Anecdote. In the early period of the French revolution, when the throne and the altar had been overturned, a Benedictine monastery was entered, by a devastating band, its inmates treated with wanton and unprovoked cruelty, and the work of demolition and plunder going on,-when a large body of the inhabitants rallied, drove the spoilers away, but secured the ringleaders, whom they would have severely punished, had not the abbot, who had received the worst indignities from these very leaders, rushed forward to protect them. "I thank you, my children," said he, "for your seasonable interference; let us, however, show the superiority of religion, by displaying our clemency, and suffering them to depart." The ruffians were overpowered by the abbot's humanity, fell at his feet, entreated his benediction and forgiveness. But yonder-comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. The less'ning cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow, Miscellaneous. 1. In opening a cause, Illum'd with fluid gold, his near approach give a general view of the grounds on which Betoken glad. Lo, now, apparent all the charge is made, and of the extent, magni- Aslant the dew-bright earth, and color'd air, tude, tendency, and effect of the crime al-He looks-in boundless majesty abroad; ledged. 2. There is some consolation for dull And sheds the shining day, that, burnish'd, plays authors, that the confectioner may put good On rocks, and hills, and tow'rs, and wand'ring into their books, if they fail to do it themselves. High gleaming from afar. [streams, 3. Uncle Toby's oath: "The accusing spirit, Varieties. 1. Should we be governed by which flew up to heaven's chancery, with the our feelings, or by our judgment? 2. Earths, oath, blushed-as he gave it in; and the re-waters, and atmospheres-are the three gecording angel-dropped a tear upon it, and neral elements, of which all natural things blotted it out forever. 4. Would not many are made. 3. The human body is composed persons be very much surprised, if their ideas of all the essential things which are in the of heavenly joys, should be exhibited here- world of nature. 4. The three periods of our after, to show them their falsity? 5. Beauty development are-infancy, including the first is given, to remind us, that the soul should be seven years; childhood-the second seven, kept as fair and perfect in its proportions, as and youth-the third seven; the close of the temple in which it dwells; the spirit of which,-is the beginning of manhood. 5. beauty flows in, only where these proportions Adolescence-is that state, when man begins are harmonious. 6. Can any one be a lover to think, and act—for himself, and not from of truth, and a searcher after it, and yet turn the instruction, and direction of others. 6. his back on it, when presented, and call for The cerebellum, and consequently, the vomiracles? 7. The aphorism, "Know thy-luntary principle of the mind, never sleeps ; self," is soon spoken, but one is a long time in obeying it; Gracian-was placed among the seven wise men of Greece, for having been the author of the maxim; but never, replied the sage, was any one placed there for having performed it.

Who painted Justice blind, did not declare

What magistrates should be, but what they are:
Not so much, 'cause they rich and poor should weigh
In their just scales alike; but, because they,
Now blind with bribes, are grown so weak of sight,
They'll sooner feel a cause, than see it right.
Justice, painted blind,

Infers, his ministers are obliged to hear
The cause; and truth, the judge, determine of it;
And not sway'd or by favor, or affection,
By a false gloss, or corrected comment, alter
The true intent and letter of the law.

Man's rich with little, were his judgment true.

but the cerebrum, and of course, the reason-
ing faculty-does. 7. Beware of the errone-
ous opinion, that you must be remarkably
original; and that to speak, and write, un-
like anybody else, is a great merit.

'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too: what the declin'd is,
He shall as soon read-in the eyes of others,
As feel-in his own fall: for men, like butterflies,
Show not their mealy wings, but to the summer.
He stood up

Firm in his better strength, and like a tree
Rooted in Lebanon, his frame bent not.
His thin, white hairs-had yielded to the wind,
And left his brow uncovered; and his face,
Impressed with the stern majesty of grief,
Nerved to a solemn duty, now stood forth
Like a rent rock, submissive, yet sublime.

533. MODESTY-is a diffidence of ourselves, Punishments. There are dreadful punaccompanied with delicacy in our sense of what-ishments enacted against thieves; but it were ever is mean, indirect, or dishonorable, or a fear much better to make such good provisions, by of doing these things, or of having them imputed which every man might be put in a method how to us. Submission is an humble sense of our inferiority, and a quiet surrender of our power to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necesto a superior. Modesty bends the body forward; sity of stealing, and of being imprisoned, or dying 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,
Before so noble, and so great a figure,
Be stamped upon it.

O noble sir!

Your ever kindnesss doth wring tears from me ;
I do embrace your offer, and dispose,
From henceforth, of poor Claudia.

for it.

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 unfearned 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 0. 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,
So modest ease in beauty shines more bright;
Unaiming charms, with edge resistless fall,
And she who means no mischief, does it all.
534. Pride. When our esteem of ourselves,ners are evidence of low breeding.
or opinion of our own rank or merit is so high,
as to lessen the regard due to the rank and
merit of others, it is called pride: when it sup-
poses others below our regard, it is contempt,
scorn, or disdain. Pride assumes a lofty look,
bordering on the look and aspect of anger. The
eyes full and open, but with the eye-brow con-
siderably drawn down, the mouth pouting out,
but mostly shut, and the lips contracted: the
words walk out and strut, and are uttered with
a slow, stiff, bombastic affectation of importance;
the hands sometimes rest on the hips, with the
elbows brought forward in the position called
a-kimbo; the feet at a distance from each other,
and the steps long and stately. Obstinacy-
adds to the aspect of pride.

Worcester! get thee gone; for I do see
Danger and disobedience in thine eye:

O sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory,
And majesty-might never yet endure
The moody frontier, of a servant's brow;
You have good leave to leave us; when we need
Your use and counsel, we shall send for you.
Did'st thou not think, such vengeance must await
The wretch that with his crimes all fresh about
Rushes, irreverent, unprepared, uncalled, [him,
Into his Maker's presence, throwing back,
With insolent disdain, his choicest gifts?

Anecdote. One of the emperors of China 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?

As turns a flock of geese, and, on the green,
Poke out their foolish necks in awkward spleen,
(Ridiculous in rage!) to hiss, not bite,
So war their quills, when sons of Dullness write.
Clear as the glass, his spotless fame.
And lasting diamond writes his name.
All jealousy
Must still be strangled in its birth or time
Will soon conspire to make it strong enough

To overcome the truth.

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing,
Short is her life, and impotent her sting;
But, when to truth allied, the wound she gives
Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Every man in this age has not a soul
Of crystal, for all men to read their actions [der,
Thro': men's hearts and faces are so far asun-
That they hold no intelligence.

Too dull for wakefulness, too quick for slumber,
Something heavy on my spirit,
Sits on me as a cloud along the sky,
Which will not let the sunbeams through, nor yet
Descend in rain and end, but spreads itself
'Twixt earth and heaven, like envy between
And man, an everlasting mist.
[man

SONNET.

Like an enfranchised bird, that wildly springs,
With a keen sparkle in his glancing eye,
And a strong effort in his quivering wings,
Up to the blue vault of the happy sky,-
So my enamor❜d heart, so long thine own,
At length from Love's imprisonment set free,
Goes forth into the open world alone,

Glad and exulting in its liberty:
But like that helpless bird (confin'd so long,

His weary wings have lost all power to soar,)
Who soon forgets to trill his joyous song,

And feebly fluttering, sinks to earth once more-
So, from its former bonds released in vain,

My heart still feels the weight of that remember'd chain.
Whole years of joy glide unperceived away,
While sorrow counts the minutes as they pass.

535. FROMISING is expressed by benevolent looks, 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,
And sail, so expeditious, it shall catch
Your royal fleet far off.

I will be true to thee, preserve thee ever,
The sad companion of this faithful breast;
While life, and thought remain.

Where'er I go, my soul shall stay with thee; "Tis but my shadow, that I take away. 536. REFUSING, when accompanied with displeasure, is done nearly the same way as dismissing with displeasure without it-it is done with a visible reluctance, that occasions the bringing out the words slowly, with such a shake of the head, and shrug, as is natural on hearing something that gives us a screw of the shoulders, and hesitation in the speech, as implies perplexity between granting and refusing; as in the ing example of refusing to lend money:

Laconics. 1. We must be instructed by 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, philosophical 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 then, the reasoning upon it. 5. When it is impossible, to trace effects to visible causes, the mental sight must 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. 7. 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,
That now-they are at falt-want treasure-cannot
Do-what they would; are sorry, (you are honorable)-
But yet they could have wished-(they know not)—
Something hath been amiss-(a noble nature

May catch a wrench)—would all were well-'tis pity;
And so intending other serious matter,
After distasteful looks-and other hard fractions-
With certain half caps, and cold-moving words-
They frown me into silence.

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,
Till withering sorrow blanch'd the white rose there;
But grief did lay his icy finger on it,
And chill'd it-to a cold and joyless statue.

direct us, studies they still must be. Nature
gives a bias to respective pursuits; and this
strong propensity is what we mean by genius.
Milton did not write his Paradise Lost; nor
Homer his Iliad; nor Newton his Principia,
without immense labor.

Light grief is proud of state, and courts compassion;
But there's a dignity-in cureless sorrow,
A sullen grandeur, which disdains complaint;
Rage is for little wrongs-despair-is dumb.

Let coward guilt, with pallid fear,
To shelt'ring caverns fly,
And justly-dread the vengeful fate,
That thunders through the sky.
Protected by that hand, whose law,
The threat'ning storms obey,
Intrepid virtue-smiles secure,

As in the blaze of day.

Varieties. 1. When you can do it, without injury to truth and mercy, always avoid 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,
And lives, contentedly, between

The little-and the great,

Feels not the wants-that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues-that haunt the rich man's door,
Imbittering-all his state.

The tallest pines-feel most-the power
Of wintry blast; the loftiest tower-

Comes heaviest-to the ground.

The bolls-that span the mountain side,
His cloud-capt eminence-divide;

And spread the ruin round.

Nature-is frugal, and her wants are few.

word, or deed, is a liar, and no one, that has been once deceived by him, will fail to shun, if not despise him.

Whether present, or absent, you always appear,

A youth-most bewitchingly pleasant,

For when you are present, you're absent-my dear;
And when you are absent--you're present.
How charming--is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,

And a perpetual feast-of nectar'd sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.

Seeming devotion doth but gild the knave,
That's neither faithful, honest, just nor brave;
But where religion doth-with virtue join,
It makes a hero-like an angel shine.

537. REMORSE, or a painful sense of guilt. casts down the countenance, and clouds it with anxiety; hangs down the head; draws down the eye-brows; the right hand beats the breast; the teeth gnashes with anguish, and the whole body is strained, and violently agitated: if strong remorse is succeeded by the more gracious dis

position of penitence, or contrition, the eyes are raised, (tho' with great appearance of doubting and fear,) to the throne of mercy, and immediately cast down again to the earth; then floods of tears are seen to flow; the knees are bended, or the body prostrated on the ground; the arms are spread in a suppliant posture, and the voice of deprecation is uttered with sighs and groans, timidity, hesitation, and trembling. The engraving indicates a noble mind in distress.

The heart,

Pierced with a sharp remorse for guilt,
Disdains the costly poverty of hecatombs,
And offers the best sacrifice-itself.
Blest tears-of soul-felt-penitence!
In whose benign, redeeming flow-
Is felt the first,-the only sense-

Of guiltless joy-that guilt can know.
Go, maiden, weep-the tears of woe,
By beauty-to repentance given,
Though bitterly-on earth they flow,

Shall turn to fragrant balm-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 mean

ing; sentences short, expressions satirical, with
mock-praise occasionally intermixed.

You have done that, which you should be sorry for.
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats;
For I am arm'd so strong in honesty,
That they pass by me as the idle wind,
Which I respect not. I did send to you,
For certain sums of gold, which
denied me;
you
For I can raise no money by vile means.
No-Cassius, I had rather coin my heart,
And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring-
From the hard hands of peasants, their vile trash,
By any indirection. I did send

To you for gold-to pay my legions;

Which you denied me; was that done, like Cassius?

Should I-have answered Caius Cassius thus?
When Marcus Brutus-grows so covetous,
To lock such rascal-counters from his friends,
Be ready-gods, with all your thunderbolts,
DASH him to pieces!

Anecdote. A young gentleman, (the son of his Majesty's printer, who had the patent for publishing Gibbon's works,) made his appearance, 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 argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head, than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea will fall 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,
How wide and fair the opening prospect lies!
But while the view expands, the path grows steeper,
The steps more slippery, and the chasm 's deeper:
Then why climb on? Not for the prospect's beauty,
Not for the triumph, but because 'tis duty.
What thing is love, which naught can countervail?
Naught save itself, ev'n such a thing is love.
And worldly wealth in worth as far doth fail,

Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf,
As lowest earth doth yield to heav'n above.
And can be bought with nothing but with self.
We see but half the causes of our deeds,
Seeking them wholly in the outer life,
And heedless of the encircling spirit-world,
Which, tho' unseen, is felt, and sows in us
gems of pure,
and world-wide purposes.

All
O fortune! thou canst not divide
Our bodies so, but that our hearts are tied,
And we can love by letters still, and gifts,
And dreams.

It is in vain, that we would coldly gaze-
On such as smile upon us; the heart-must
Leap kindly back-to kindness.