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Shoots o'er his features, as the sudden gust Crisps the reluctant lake, that lay so calm Beneath the mountain shadow; or the blast Ruffles the autumn leaves, that, drooping, cling Faintly, and motionless to their lov'd boughs. What avails

[pain, Valor or strength, though matchless, quelled with Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands Of mightiest? Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life, perhaps, and not repine; But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils! and, excessive, overturns All patience.

And not a virtue in the bosom lives

That gives such ready pay as patience gives; That pure submission to the ruling mind, Fixed. but not forced; obedient, but not blind; The will of heaven to make her own she tries, Or makes her own to heaven a sacrifice. The dream of the injured patient mind, That smiles at the wrongs of men, Is found in the bruised and wounded rind Of the cinnamon, sweetest then! Anecdote. The Philosopher Outdone. A learned philosopher, being in his study, a little girl came for some fire. Says the doctor, "But you have nothing to take it in ;" and as be was going to fetch something, the girl, taking some cold ashes in one hand, put the live coals on with the other. The astonished sage threw down his books, saying, "With all my learning, I should never have found! out that expedient."

Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam' afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot-through the fields of air. The brave-do never shun the light; Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers; Truly, without disquiet, they love, or hate; Still are they found-in the fair face of day; And heaven--and men-are judges of their actions.

Proverbs. 1. The true economy of everything is to gather up the fragments of time, as well as of materials. 2. The earlier children are taught to be useful, the better; not only for themselves, but for all others. 3. Consider that day as lost, in which something has not been done for the benefit of others, as well as for yourself. 4. False pride, or foolish ambition, should never induce us to live beyond our income. 5. To associate with influential and genteel people, with an appearance of equality, has its advantages; especially, where there are sons or daughters just entering on the stage of action; but, like all other external advan tages, they have their proper price, and may be bought too dearly; "never pay too much for the whistle." 6. Never let the cheapness of an article tempt you to purchase it, if you do not really need it; for nothing is cheap, that we do not want. 7. Vanity and pride must yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence.

Miscellaneous. Great Britain-has dotted over the surface of the globe, with her possessions and military posts; and her morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circle the earth daily, with one unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. The steam-engine is on the rivers, and the boatman may rest upon his oars; it is in the highways, and begins to exert itself along the courses of land-conveyances; it is at the bottom of mines, a thousand feet below the surface of the earth; it is in the mill and in the workshop of the traders; it rows, it pumps, it excavates, it ploughs, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints; and seems to say to artisans, Leave your manual labor, give over your bodily toil, use your skill and reason to direct my power, and I will bear toil, with no muscle to grow weary, no nerve to relax, no breast to feel faintness.

VARIETIES.

Cease, mourners; cease complaint and weep no
Your friends are not dead, but gone before; [more;
Advanced a stage or two-upon the road,
Which you must travel in the steps they trode.
True valor, friends, on virtue founded strong,
Meets all events alike.

Preach patience to the sea, when jarring winds,
Throw up the swelling billow to the sky;
And if your reason mitigate her fury,
My soul will be as calm.
Contention, like a horse,

Full of high feeding, madly hath broken loose,

And bears down all before him.

The day shall come, that great avenging day,
When Troy's proud glories in the dust shall lay
Send thy arrows forth,

Strike! strike the tyrants, and avenge my tears.
Slander, that worst of poisons, ever finds
An easy entrance to ignoble minds.
Other sins-only speak,-murder—shrieks out.
The element of water-moistens the earth;
But blood-flies upward, and bedew the heavens

ACUTE PAIN,

493. Bodily, or mental, signifies a high degree of pain, which may appropriately be called AGONY, OF ANGUISH; the agony is a severe and permanent pain; the anguish an overwhelming pain: a pang-is a sharp pain, and generally of short continuance: the pangs of conscience frequently trouble the person who is not hardened in guilt;

and the pangs o disappointed love are among the severest to be borne: "What pangs the ten

return from the public schools; and wher they had entered their mother's apartment, she, pointing to them, said to the lady "These are my jewels; the only ornaments I admire."

Laconics. 1. If we complained less, and tried to encourage and help each other more, we should find all our duties more easily performed. 2. Happiness-consists in the delight of perform ing uses for the sake of uses: that is, doing good for the sake of good, instead of the love of reward, which is a selfish feeling: all selfish feelings pro duce unhappiness in the degree they are entertained, 3. If we would be happy, we must put away, as far as we can, those thoughts and feelings, that have reference to self alone, and culti vate the higher ones, that have reference to the good of others, as well as ourselves. 4. To do der breast of Dido tear!" COMPLAINING-( as when one is under violent pain,) distorts the fea- | good, for the sake of delight in doing good, is a tures, almost closes the eyes; sometimes raises selfish motive; but to do good to others, for the them wistfully; opens the mouth, gnashes the sake of making them happy, and, in doing it, forteeth, draws up the upper lip, draws down the head upon the breast, and contracts the whole get ourselves, is a heavenly motive. 5. If we body: the arms are violently bent at the elbows, would act from right motives, we must endeavor and the fists clenched, the voice is uttered in to put away every feeling, that is purely selfish; in groans, lamentations, and sometimes in violent doing which, every effort will give us strength, screams: extreme torture producing fainting and like the repeated efforts of a child, in learning to walk. 6. Parents should keep their children from every association that may tend to their injury, either in precept or practice. 7. Love is omnipo

death.

Oh, rid me of this torture, quickly there,
My madam, with thy everlasting voice.
The bells, in time of pestilence, ne'er made
Like noise, or were in that perpetual motion.
All my house,
[breath:
But now, streamed like a bath, with her thick
A lawyer could not have been heard, nor scarce,

Another woman, such hail of words she let fall.

2. What! the rogue who robb'd me? do hang him, drown him, burn him, flay him alive. 3. Hold your tongue, we don't want to hear your nonsense about eating; hold your tongue, and answer the questions, which the justice is going put to you, about the money I lost, and which I suppose you have

taken.

Hide not thy tears: weep boldly-and be proud
To give the flowing virtue manly way.

Tis nature's mark, to know an honest heart by.
Shame on those breasts of stone, that cannot melt,
In soft adoption of another's sorrow!

O, who can hold a fire in his hand,
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
By a bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow,
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat
O, no! the apprehension of the good,
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse:
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more,
Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Anecdote. A rich Campanian lady, fond
of pomp and show, being on a visit to Corne-
lia the illustrious mother of the Gracchii,
displayed her jewels and diamonds ostenta-
tiously, and requested that Cornelia should
show her jewels. Cornelia turned the conver-
sation to another subject, till her sons should

tent.

care

Varieties. 1. That profusion of lan.
guage, and poverty of thought, which is call-
ed being spontaneous, and original, is no
proof of simplicity of heart, or freedom of
understanding; there is more paper than
gold, more words than ideas, in this “
less wealth." 2. Combined with goodness
and truth, ORATORY is one of the most glo-
rious distinctions of man; it is a power, that
influences all: it elevates the affections and
thoughts to enthusiasm; and animates us
in joy, and soothes us in sorrow; instructs,
guides, and persuades us. 3. To resolve a
proposition into its simplest elements we
must reason a posteriori; by observing the
relation of sequences, we are enabled 10 sup-
ply antecedents, involving the same relation;
thus, amounting to the simplest state of a
proposition.

What nothing earthly gives, or, can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine, and the hearfelt jog,
IS VIRTUE's prize.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul, with hooks of sted.
Mind,-

-can raise,

From its unseen conceptions, where they lie,
Bright in their mine, forms, hues, that lock Eternity
Is it the language of some other state,
Born of its memory? For what can wake
The soul's strong instinct-of another world,
Like music?

without good company, all dainties
Lose their true relish, and like painted grapes,
Are only seen, not tasted.

ADMIRATION.

494. A mixed passion, consisting of wonder, mingled with pleasing, emotions; as veneration,love, esteem, takes away the familfar gesture and expression of simple love: it is a compound passion, excited by something novel, rare, great, or excellent, either of persons or their works: thus we

How this grace

Speaks his own standing! what a mental power
This eye shoots forth how big imagination
Moves in this lip! to the dambness of the gesture
One might interpret.

Old men and beldames, in the streets,

Do prophecy upon it dangerously;

Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths;
And when they talk of him they shake their he'ds,
And whisper one another in the ear;

And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist;
Whilst he that hears, makes fearful action,
With wrinkl'd brows, with nods, with rolling eyes
I saw a smith stand with his hammer thus,
The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool,
With open mouth, swallowing a tailor's news;
Who, with his shears and measure in his hand,
Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste
Had safely thrust upon contrary feet,)
Told of a many thousand warlike French,
That were embattled and rank'd in Kent.

Another lean unwash'd artificer

view the solar system with admiration. It keeps the respectful look and attitude; the eyes are wide open, and now and then raised towards heaven; the mouth is open; the hands lifted up; the tone of voice rapturous; speaks copiously and in hyperboles. Admirationis looking at any thing attentively with appre-Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death. ciation; the admirer suspends his thoughts, not from the vacancy, but from the fullness of his mind he is riveted to an object, which temporarily absorbs his faculties: nothing but what is good and great, excites admiration; and none but cultivated minds are very susceptible of it; an ignorant person cannot admire: because he does not appreciate the value of the thing: the form and use must be seen at any rate.

How beautiful the world is! The green earth, covered with flowers-the trees, laden with rich blossoms the blue sky and the bright water, and the golden sunshine. The world is, indeed, beautiful; and He, who

made it, must be beautiful.

Anecdote. It was so natural for Dr. Watts to speak in rhyme, that even at the very time he wished to avoid it, he could not. His father was displeased at this propensity, and threatened to whip him, if he did not leave off making verses. One day, when he was about to put his threat in execution, the child burst into tears, and on his knees, said: Pray father, do, some pity take,

And I will no more verses make. Varieties. 1. What is a better security against calumny, and reproach, than a good

conscience? 2. What we commence-from It is a happy world. Hark! how the mer- the impulse of virtue, we too often continue ry birds sing-and the young lambs-see! how they gambol on the hill-side. Even the is the offspring of independence and virtue from the spur of ambition; avarice, herself, trees wave, and the brooks ripple, in glud-3. Wealth, suddenly acquired, will rarely ness. Yon eagle!-ah! how joyously he soars up to the glorious heavens-the bird or

America.

"His throne-is on the mountain-top;
His fields-the boundless air;
And hoary peaks, that proudly prop
The skies-his dwellings are.
He rises, like a thing of light,
Amid the noontide blaze :

The midway sun-is clear and bright ;
It cannot dim his gaze."

t is happy-I see it, and hear it all about me-nay, I feel it here, in the glow, the eloquent glow of my own heart. He, who made it, must be happy.

It is a great world! Look off to the mighty ocean, when the storm is upon it; to the huge mountain, when the thunder and the lightnings play over it; to the vast forest, the interminable waste; the sun, the moon, and the myriads of fair stars, countless as the sands upon the sea-shore. It is a great, a magnificent world,-and He, who made it, oh! HE is the perfection of all loveliness, all goodruss, all greatness, all glory.

abide; nothing but quiet, consistent industry, can render any people prosperous and happy. 4. Did you ever think seriously of the design, and uses of the thumb? 5. Music, in practice, may be called the gymnastics of the affections. 6. The difference between honor, and honesty--seems to be principally in the motive; as the honest man does that from love and duty, which the man of honor does, for the sake of character. 7. If there be any thing, which makes one ridiculous, to beings of superior faculties, it must be pride. S. As is the mother, so is the daughter; think of this O ye mothers, and improve.

The rich are wise:

He that upon his back rich garments wears,
Is wise, though on his head grow Midas' ears.
Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world;
The health, the soul, the beauty most divine;
A mask of gold hides all deformities;
Gold is heav'n's physic, life's restorative.
O credulity,
Thou hast as many ears, as fame—has tongues
Opened to every sound of truth, as falsehood

ADMIRATION AND ASTONISHMENT,

495. Implies confusion, arising from surprise, &c. at an extraordinary, or unexpected event: astonishment signifies to strike with the overpowering voice of thunder; we are surprised if that does, or does not happen, which we did, or did not expect ; astonishment may be awakened by similar events, which are more unexpected, and

more unaccountable: thus, we are astonished
to find a friend at our house, when we suppos-
ed he was hundreds of miles distant; or to hear
that a person has traveled a road, or crossed a
stream, that we thought impassable.
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,
Almighty! thine this universal frame, [then!
Thus wondrous fair! Thyself, how wondrous,
Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heavens,
To us-invisible, or dimly seen

In these thy lowest works: yet these declare
Thy goodness, beyond thought, and power divine.
See, what a grace was seated on this brow!
Hyperion curls; the front of Jove himself:
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station, like the herald Mercury,
New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill.
A combination, and a form indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.
What find I here ?

Fair Portia's counterfeit? What demi-god
ilath come so near creation? Move their eyes?
Or, whether riding on the ball of mine,

Seem they are in motion? Here are sever'd lips,
Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar [hairs,
Should sunder such sweet friends: Here, in her
The painter plays the spider, and hath woven
A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,
Faster than gnats in cobwebs.-But her eyes!
How could he see to do them! having made one,
Methinks it should have power to steal both his,
And leave itself unfinished.

Anecdote. While Thucidydes was yet a
boy, he heard Herodotus recite his histories,
at the olympic games, and is said to have
wept exceedingly. The "Father of Histori-
ans," observing how much the boy was mov-
ed, congratulated his father, on having a child
of such promise, and advised him to spare no
nains in his education. Thucidydes became
one of the best historians of Greece.
Wise legislators never yet could draw
A fox within the reach of common law;
For posture, dress, grimace, and affectation,
Though foes to sense, are harmless to the nation;
Our last redress is dint of verse to try,
And satire is our Court of Chancery.

Maxims. 1. Never consider the spin one o others in a matter that does not concern inem. 2. It is of but little use to argue a point with one, whose mind is made up on the subject. 3. Beware of objections, founded on wrong ideas. 4. A woman's conclusions are generally proof against the most eloquent reasonings. 5. Look withir, instead of without, for the true criterion of ac tion, and be manly and independent. 6. Let the square and rule of life be-Is it right? 7. Be cautious in yielding your better judgment to the wishes of others. 8. We generally err, in undertaking-what we do not understand. 9. They will surely be wise, who profit by experience. 10. A clear head-makes sure work.

Temperance. Happy are they that have made their escape from the drinking custom of the world, and enrolled their names amongst the friends of Temperance; for, by so doing, they have most probably escaped from an early death. Death, not only of the body, but of the soul, for the habit of intoxication is calculated to destroy both.

Varieties. 1. When once you profess yourself a friend, be always such. 2. Blame not, before you have examined: understand, then rebuke. 3. Some people will never learn anything; for this reason, they understand everything too soon. 4. Who can calculate the importance of learning to say, No. 5. By following the order of Providence, and obeying the laws of life and being, we shall not become fatigued. 6. Abstraction, is the power, which the understanding has, of separating the combinations, which are presented to it; it is also called the power of considering qualities, or attributes of one object, apart from the rest. 7. There is a Providence in the least of man's thoughts and actions; yea, in all his common and trifling

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concerns.

Words are like leaves; and where they most a-
Much fruit of sense beneath, is rarely found.[bound
False eloquence-like the prismatic glass,
Its gaudy colors spreads on every place:
The face of Nature-we no more survey,
All glares alike, without distinction gay:
But true expression, whate'er it shines upon,
It gilds all objects, but it alters-none.
Expression is the dress of thought, and still
Appears more decent-as more suitable.
A just man cannot fear;
Not, though the malice of traducing tongues
The open vastness of a tyrant's ear,
The senseless rigor of the wrested laws,
Or the red eyes of strain'd authority,
Should, in a point, meet all to take his life!
His innocence is armor 'gainst all these.
Music so softens and disarms the mind,
That not an arrow does resistance find;
Thus the fair tyrant celebrates the prize,
And acts herself the triumph of her eyes;
So Nero once, with harp in hand, survey'd
His flaming Rome, and as it burn'd, he play

496. THE MINOR, AND SOME OF THE MA- Maxims. 1. If a person fecs 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, all ments are passed every day, concerning dif-he world over. 3. Always do the very best you ferent individuals; "You might have seen it in his eyes the looks of the man is enough; he has an honest countenance: his manner sets every one at his ease; I will trust him for his honest face; should he deceive me, I will never trust any body again; he cannot look a person in the face; his appearance is against him; he is better (or worse,) than I took him to be."

497. ADMONIгION 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 nard is directed to the person spoken to, and the fore-fnger, projected from. the rest, seems to point more parucularly 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.

can, and then you'll be a wise man. 4. Children should be encouraged to do, whatever they undertake, in the very best manner. 5. He who who is accustomed to do the best he can, in lower aims low, can never hit exalted objects; and he things, will be best prepared to attain excellence in the highest. 6. Children should never be allowed to fall into habits of disorder in anything; nor permitted to put things out of order, or make 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.

Anecdote. A Quaker-was waited on by four of his workmen, to make their compli ments 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.

of drinking, gluttony and lust; of pride,
vanity and ambition; because he is not at
liberty to be, what he was created to be.
The prophet spoke: when, with a gloomy frown,

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 or 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 divine majesty of the Lord can be viewed, benefit us; and instead of unfitting us for joyment, so that they may not injure, but is that, in which he presented himself, when he said, that he "come, not to be ministered our duties, dispose and fit us for their performance. 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 his example. 4. What a pity it is, that parents and teachers are not more anxious to mend the heart, than furnish the heads of 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 judgruent pattern out my death, Ard nothing come 11 partial. He must die.

Black choler filled his breast, that boil'd with ire,
And, from his eyeballs, flashed the living fire.
Of beasts, it is confessed the ape--
Comes nearest us--in human shape;
Like man, he imitates each fashion;
And malice-is his ruling passion.

The monarch started-from his shining throne;

I hate, when vice can bolt her arguments,
And virtue-has no tongue, to check her pride
But not to me return
Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn,
But cloud instead, and ever-during dark
Surrounds me.

If sweet content is banished from my soul,
Life grows a burden, and a weight of woe.
Music-moves us, and we know not why;
We feel the tears, but cannot trace their source.

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