531. PARDONING -differs from acquitting. in Admiration and Love. There is a wide his-the latter-means clearing a person, after difference between admiration and love. The trial, of guilt; whereas, the former-supposes guilt, and signifies merely delivering the guilty person sublime, which is the cause of the former, alfrom 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, unmixed approbation; otherwise, its expression is much the same as granting; which see.

PARDONING A CRUEL PERSECUTION.

[men,

We pardon thee; live on, the state hath need of
Humility and gratitude for this our gift,
May make a man of thee.

Great souls-forgive not injuries, till time
Has put their enemies within their power,
That they may show-forgiveness-is their own.
That thou may'st see the difference of our spirits,
I pardon thee thy life, before thou ask it:
For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's;
The other half-conies to the general state;
Which humbleness-may drive into a fine.

submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us; in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.

Laconics. 1. Every one, who would be ar orator, should study Longinus on the sublime. 2. Many of our books, containing pieces for decla mation, remind one of a physician's leaving medi cine with a patient, without directions how to take it. 3. Would it not be well for some competent person to compile a work, to be called "Sengs 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 singing, and perhaps the worship, as any thing but devotionals

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.

Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death;
The noise was high-ha! no more moving?

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

Still as the grace. Shall she come in? wer't good? principles and apply them to practice; and

I think she stirs again. No. What's the best?

If she come in, she'll speak to my wife.

when this is generally done, mankind will be brought nearer to equality. 5. It is as im

Anecdote. Peter the Great made a law, in 1722, that if any nobleman beat, or ill-possible for us to understand a thing, without treated his staves, he should be looked upon mind's eye, as it is to see any thing, without having the image of it on the retina of the 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 educatim of children, for ing a man of great sensibility, took to his bed, moral and religious duty, we are called uptime and eternity, the highest social, civil, and died in a few days. Peter, on hearing of this, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes: I have on to perform? 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,
Whose very languor-is a punishment
Heavier than active souls-can feel or guess.
O hours of indolence--and discontent,

Not now-to be redeemed! ye sting not less
Because I know-this span of life was lent
For lofty duties, not for selfishness;
Not to be whiled away in a mless dreams,
But to improve ourselves—and serve mankind,
Life-ard its choicest faculties were given.
Man should be ever better-than he seems:

And shape his arts, and discipline his mind,
To walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven!

PLEASURE OF PIETY.

A Deity-believ'd, is joy begun;
A Deity ador'd, is joy advane'd;
A Deity belov'd, is joy matur'd.
Each branch of piety delight inspires:
Faith-builds a bridge from this world to the next,
O'er death's dark gulf, and all its horror hides;
Praise, the sweet exhalation of our joy,
That joy eralts, and makes it sweeter still;
Pray'r ardent opens hear'n, lets down a stream
Of glory, on the consecrated hour
Of man-in audience with the Deity.
Some-ne'er advance a judgment of their own,
But catch the spreading notions of the town;
They reason and conclude-from precedent,
And own stale not ons, which they ne'er invent
Some judge of authors' names, not torks; and then
Nor praise, nor blame the teritings, but the men,

533. MODESTY-is a diffidence of ourselves, accompanied with delicacy in our sense of whatever is mean, indirect, or dishonorable, or a fear of doing these things, or of having them imputed to us. Submission 's 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 chara ter: 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.

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,
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 loty 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.
adds to the aspect of pride.

Punishments. There are dreadful punmuch better to make such good provisions, by ishments enacted against thieves; but it were 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.

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 prac-
tical 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 inoral sense of the people, is the sheet-
anchor, 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 re-
ject, without due examination. 7. Ill man-
ners are evidence of low breeding.
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.
Obstinacy-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.

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 malefue-
tors to punishment. On being informed of
the facts, he burst into fears; when one of
his courtiers endeavored to comfort him, say-
ing, "In a commonwealth, there must be
punishment; it cannot be avoided, as man-
kind 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?

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.

Something heavy on my spirit,
Too dull for wakefulness, too quick for slumber,
which will not let the sunbeams through, nor yet
Sits on me as a cloud along the sky,
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,

Aat 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 gl de unperceived away,
While sorrow counts the minutes as they pass.

535. TRYMISING is expressed by benevolent oks, a soft but earnest voice, and sometimes by irclining the head, or nod of consent; the hands open with palm upward, toward the person to whom the promise is made: sincerity in prom sing 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.

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 sc ́ences, 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 mis! take up, and complete the operation. 6. There is a universal analogy between all the spheres of creation, natural, mental and spiritual, and be tween nature, and all things in human society. 7. Nature-is simple and easy, it is man that is diffecu and perplexed.

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 occas ons the bring-be ing 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:

Genius. They say of poets, that they must born such; so must mathematicians, so must great generals, and so must levers, 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 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 I iad; nor Newton his Principia, without immense labor.

They answer-in a joint-and corporate voice,
That now-they are at alt-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 cucurving turar-
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.

Night 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 late,
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 mereu, 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 vesaid 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 ofhers will do from their mutual recollection: and this draw-much for us? 6. Every deceiver, whether by ing was the origina! of all the portraits we | word, or deed, is a liar, and no one, that has 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 bolts-that span the mountain s'de,
His cloud-capt eminence-divide;

And spread the ruin round.

Nature-is frugal, and her wants are few.

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 preænt, you're absent-my dear;
And when you are alient-you're present.
How charming—is div ne philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbet, as dull fools suppose.
But musical as is Apollo's lute,

And a perpetual feast-of nectar'd sweets,
Where no crude surfeit re gns.
Seeming devotion doth but gild the knare,
That's ne ther faithful, honest, just nor brave;
But where religion doth—with virtue join,

It makes a hero-like an angel shine.

position of pentence, 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.