526. JEALOUSY is doubtful anger, strug gling against faith and pity; it is a tenderness resisted by resentment of suspected injury; the nerves braced strong imply determination of revenge and punishment; while, at the same time, a soft passive hesitation in the eye, confesses a reluctance at the heart, to part with, or efface a gentle and indulged idea. Again, it is rage at a concluded infidelity; and then, the eye receives and flashes out sparklings of inflamed ideas, while the muscles, contracting the will's violence, from a repressive disposition of the heart, grow slack, and lose their spring, and so disarm and modify the enraged indignation. Now from this unsettled wavering in the balance of the purpose, when the heart and judgment weigh each other, and both scales alternately preponderate, is induced a glowing picture of jealousy. Oh! what dam-ned minutes tells he o'er, Anecdote. Lord Gadshy, over the entrance of a beautiful grotto, had caused this inscription to be placed,-"Let nothing enter here but what is good." Dr. Rennel, the master of the temple, who was walking over the ground, with much point asked-" Then where does your lordship enter?" Everything Useful. The mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, are designed for the nourishment, clothing, habitation, recreation, delight, protection and preservation of the human race; abuse does not take away use, any more than the falsification of truth destroys the truth; except, with those who do it. Everything which is an object of the senses, is designed to aid in developing the most external faculties of man; and what is of an economical and civil nature, and what is imbibed from parents, teachers, and others, and also from books, and reflections upon them all, is useful for perfecting the rational faculties of the mind: and all Who doats, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves! divine truths are designed to perfect the hu O jealousy! thou bane of social joy! Oh! she's a monster, made of contradictions! 527. THE FRUITS. Men, instead of applying the salutary medicines of philosophy and religion to abate the rage, and recover the temper of their vitiated imaginations, cherish the disease in their bosoms, until their increasing appetites, like the hounds of Actæon, tear into pieces the soul they were intended to enliven and protect. Jealousy-is like A polish'd glass, held to the lips, when life's in doubt: It is jealousy's peculiar nature, man mind, and prepare it for receiving a spiritual principle from the Lord, our Creator and Redeemer. Varieties. 1. A fit Pair. A Dandy is a thing, in pantaloons, with a body and two arms, head without brains, tight boots, a cane, and white handkerchief, two broaches and a ring on his little finger, A Coquette is a young lady, with more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms of person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, and more fools than wise men for her attendants. 2. The sunshine of prosperity-has attractions for all, who love to bask in its influence, hoping to share in its pleasures. 3. The verdant lawn, the shady grove, the variegated landscape, the beautiful ocean and the starry firmament are contemplated with pleasure, by every one, who has a soul. 4. A man should To swell small things to great; nay, out of nought, not be ashamed to own, that he has been in To conjure much, and then to lose its reason Amid the hideous phantoms it has formed. How blest am I The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make known How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, his sides, With violent hefts.-I have drunk, and seen the spider!. the wrong; which is only saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday. 5. The love of truth and goodness, is the best passion we can indulge. 6. A woman's life, is the history of the affec tions; the heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire, and there she seeks for untold treasures. 7. The best and noblest conquest, is that of reason over our passions, and follies. Those you make friends, And give your hearts to, when they once perceive The least rub in your fortunes, fall away Like water from ye, never found again But where they mean to sink ye. Oh jealousy! Love's eclipse! thou art in thy disease A wild, mad patient, wondrous hard to please. 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- Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires, 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: Infers, his ministers are obliged to hear Man's rich with little, were his judgment true. but the cerebrum, and of course, the reason- 'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune, Firm in his better strength, and like a tree 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, O noble sir! Your ever kindnesss doth wring tears from me ; 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, Worcester! get thee gone; for I do see O sir, your presence is too bold and peremptory, 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, To overcome the truth. When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Every man in this age has not a soul Too dull for wakefulness, too quick for slumber, SONNET. Like an enfranchised bird, that wildly springs, Glad and exulting in its liberty: His weary wings have lost all power to soar,) And feebly fluttering, sinks to earth once more- My heart still feels the weight of that remember'd chain. 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, I will be true to thee, preserve thee ever, 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, May catch a wrench)—would all were well-'tis pity; 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, 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, The little-and the great, Feels not the wants-that pinch the poor, The tallest pines-feel most-the power Comes heaviest-to the ground. The bolls-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 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 a perpetual feast-of nectar'd sweets, Seeming devotion doth but gild the knave, 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, Of guiltless joy-that guilt can know. 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 You have done that, which you should be sorry for. 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 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, Divine is love, and scorneth worldly pelf, All It is in vain, that we would coldly gaze- |