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517. CONFIDENCE, COURAGE, BOASTING-is | have lions and tigers to rule over you' hope elated, security of success in obtaining its Know you not that cruelty-is the attribute object; and coURAGE is the contempt of any unavoidable danger in the execution of what is re- of wild beasts; clemency-that of man? solved upon: in both, the head and whole body Varieties. 1. There is no person so litare erected rather gracefully, the breast projected, the countenance clear and open, the accents tle, but the greatest may sometimes need his strong, round, full-mouthed, and not too rapid; assistance: hence, we should all exercise the voice firm and even. BOASTING,exagger- clemency, when there is an opportunity, to ates these appearances by loudness, blustering wards those in our power. This is illustra and railing, what is appropriately called swaggering; the eye-brows drawn down, the face ted by the fable of the mouse and the lion. red and bloated, mouth pouts, arms placed a- when the lion became entangled in the toils kimbo, foot stamped on the ground, large strides of the hunter, he was released by the mouse, 'n walking, voice hollow, thundering, swelling into bombast; head often menacingly, right fists which gnawed asunder the cords of the net clenched, and sometimes brandished at the per- in consideration of having been spared his own life, by the royal beast, on a former occasion. 2. It is a universal principle-that an essence cannot exist out of its form; nor be perceived out of its form; nor can the quality of a form be perceived, till the form itself is an object of thought: hence, if an essence does not present itself in form, so that its form can be seen in thought, it is totally impossible to know anything about, or be affected with, that essence. 3. The truths of religion, and the truths of science, are of different orders; though sometimes blended, yet never actually confounded: theology-is the sun, and science-the moon-to reflect its light and glory.

Base men, that use them, to so base effect:
But truer stars-did govern Proteus' birth:
His words-are bonds; his oaths-are oracles;
His love-sincere; his thoughts-immaculate:
His tears-pure messengers-sent from his heart,
His heart-as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

518. GIVING OR GRANTING,-when done with an unreserved good will, is accompanied with a benevolent aspect, and kind tone of voice: the right hand open, with the palm upward, extend ing toward the person favored, as if giving what he asks; the head at the same time inclining forward, as indicating a benevolent disposition and entire consent: all indicative of how

heartily the favor is granted, and the benefac-
tors joy in conferring it.

GIVING A DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE.
If I have too severely punished you,
Your compensation makes amends; for I

Have given you here a thread of mine own life,
Or that for which I live, whom once again

I tender to thy hand; all thy vexations
Were but my trials of thy love, and thou

My Mother. Alas, how little do we ap preciate a mother's tenderness while living! How heedless, are we, in youth, of all her anxieties and kindness! But when she is dead and gone; when the cares and coldness of the world come withering to our hearts;

Hast strangely stood the test. Here, afore heav'n, when we experience how hard it is to find

I ratify this my rich gift: Ferdinand,

Do not smile at me, that I boast her off;
For thou wilt find she will outstrip all praise,
And make it halt behind her.
Then--as my gift-and thine own acquisition--
Worthily purchas'd-take-my DAUGHTER.
Impatience. In those evils which are al-
lotted to us by Providence, such as deformity,
privation of the senses, or old age, it is al-
ways to be remembered, that impatience can
have no present effect, but to deprive us of
the consolations which our condition admits,
by driving away from us those by whose con-
versation or advice we might be amused or
helped and that, with regard to futurity, it
is yet less to be justified, since, without les-
sening the pain, it cuts off the hope of that
reward, which He, by whom it is inflicted,
will confer upon those who bear it well.

Anecdote. Clemency. Alphonsus, king of Naples and Sicily, so celebrated in history for his clemency, was once asked, why he was so favorable to all men; even to those most notoriously wicked? He replied, "Because good men are won by justice; the bad, by clemency." Some of his ministers complained to him, on another occasion, of this clemency; when he exd aimed "Would you

true sympathy, how few love us for ourselves,
how few will befriend us in our misfortunes;
then it is, that we think of the mother we
have lost.

The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,
Reigns-more or less, and glows-in every heart:
The proud—to gain it, toils on toils endure,
The modest-shun it—but to make it sure.

Think not the good,

The gentle deeds of mercy-thou hast done,
Shall die forgotten all; the poor, the prisoner,
The fatherless, the friendless, and the widow,
Who daily-own the bounty of thy hand,

Shall cry to heaven, and pull a blessing on thee.

Tir'd Nature's sweet restorer, balmy Sleep!

He, like the world, his ready visits pays
Where Fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes
Swift on his downy pinions, flies from grief.
In Nature there's no blemish, but the mind;
None can be call'd deformed, but the unkind:
Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous-evil
Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil.
Can chance of seeing first, thy title prove
And know'st thou not, no law is made for love?
Law is to things, which to free choice relate;
Love is not in our choice, but in our fate:
Laws are but positive; love's power, we see,
Is Nature's sanction, and her first degree.

GRATI

. 520. FUDE-puts on an aspect full of complacency; (see Love) if the object of it be a character greatly superior, it expresses much submission: the right hand is open with the fingers spread, and press'd upon the breast just over the heart, expresses, very appropriately, a sin

cere and hearty sensibility of obligation. The engraving represents the deep-felt emotions of a noble mind.

O great Sciolto! O my more than father!
Let me not live, but at thy very name,

My eager heart springs up, and leaps with joy.
When I forget the vast, rast debt I owe thee,
(Forget-but 'tis impossible,) then let me
Forget the use and privilege of reason--
Be banish'd from the commerce of mankind,
To wander in the desert, among brutes,
To bear the various fury of the seasons,
The midnight cold, and the noontide scorching heat,
To be the scorn-of earth, and curse of henven.

521. A man is never the less an artist, for not having his tools about him; or a musician, because he wants his fiddle: nor is he the less brave, because his hands are bound, or the worse pilot, for being upon dry ground. If I only have will to be grateful, I am so. As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious, so also is it an obvious, a cheap, and an easy virtue: so obvious, that wherever there is life, there is place for it: so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense: and so easy, that the sluggard may be so likewise

without labor.

To the generous mind,
The heaviest debt-is that of gratitude,
When 'tis not in our power to repay it.

Tis the Creator's primary great law,
That links the chain of beings to each other,
Joining the greater to the lesser nature.
When gratitude-o'erflows the swelling heart,
And breathes in free and uncorrupted praise
For benefits received, propitious heaven
Takes such acknowledgments as fragrant incense,
And doubles all its blessings.

Anecdote. The bill of indictment, preferred against John Bunyan, author of Pilgrin's Progress, &c., was as follows: "John Bunyan hath devilishly and perniciously abstained from coming to church, to hear divine service, and is a common upholder of several unlawful meetings and conventicles, to the disturbance and distraction of the good subjects of this kingdom, contrary to the laws of our sovereign lord the king," &c., was convicted, and imprisoned twelve years and six months.

And too bad of the right, to pursue the expedient.

Views of Truth. We see truths through the medium of our own minds, as we see objecta around us thro' the atmosphere; and, of course, we see them not as they are in themselves, but as they are modified by the quality of the medium thro' which we view them; and, as the minds of all are different, we must all have different vic123 of any particular truth; which is the reason, that differences of opinion exist, and always will exist: hence, it is no argument against truth, that men have different views of it; and because they must have different views, it is no reason why they should quarrel about their opinions; for good uses, and not matters of opinion, are the touch-stone of fellowship. Thus it is, that the all of religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good, from a love of doing good. While we agree, and are united in doing good, we should not fight among ourselves, about mere matters of opinion; still, we must not be indifferent about them; for truth is necessary to give form to goodness; and every good person will naturally desire to know the truth, that he may regulate his conduct by it; and thus, acquire the greatest and highest degree of goodness.

Varieties. 1. The young-are slaves to novelty; the old―to custom. 2. The volume of nature, is the book of knowledge, and he becomes the wisest, who makes the best selections, and uses them properly. The greatest friend of truth-is time; her greatest ene is humility. 4. The best means of establishmy-prejudice; and her constant companion ing a high reputation is-to speak well, and act better. 5. Be studious, and you will be learned; be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich; be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy; be virtuous, and you will be does more than he, who commands armies. happy. 6. He, who governs his passions, Socrates, being one day offended with his servant, said, "I would beat you, if I were not angry. 7. The best mode of gaining a high reputation, is-to be-what you appear to be. Like birds, whose beauties languish, half conceal'd, Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes, Expanded, shine with azure, green, and gold; How blessings brighten-as they take their flight Deep-as the murmurs of the falling floods; Sweet as the warbles of the vocal woods: The list'ning passions hear, and sink, and rase, As the rich harmony, or swells, or dies! The pulse of avarice-forgets to move; A purer rapture-fills the breast of love; Devotion-lifts to heav'n a holier eye, And bleeding pity-heaves a softer sigh. 52 I, solitary, court The inspiring breeze, and meditate upon the book Of nature, ever open; aiming thence, Warm from the heart, to learn the moral song.

A dark, cold calm, which nothing now can break,
Or warm, or brighten ;-like that Syrian lake,
Upon whose surface, norn and summer shed
Their smiles in vain; for Ul beneath is dead.
All is silent-twas my fancy!

Still-ne the breathless interval-between the flash and thundr

Laconics. 1. When we behold a full growe 622. To act a Passion properly, we must never attempt it, until the imagination has man, in the perfection of vigor and health, and conceived clearly and distinctly, a strong and the splendor of reason and intelligence, and are vivid idea of it, and we feel its influence in our informed that "God created man in his own inmost soul; then, the form, or image of that image, after his own likeness;" we are attracted idea, will be impressed on the appropriate with tenfold interest to the examination of the muscles of the face, and communicate, in- object, that is placed before us, and the structure stantly, the same impressions to the muscles of his mind and body, and the succinct developments of the parts and proportions of each. 2. A of the body; which, whether braced, or re-workingman without tools, tho' he has the best laxed, (the idea being either active or passive,) by impelling, or retarding the flow of the affection, will transmit their own sensation to the voice, and rightly dispose the proper gesture.

COURAGE, DISTRACTION.

[Danes!

A generous few, the vet'ran hardy gleanings
Of many a hapless fight, with
Heroic fire. inspirited each other,
Resolved on death; disdaining to survive
Their dearest country. "If we fall," I cried,
"Let us not tamely fall, like passive cowards;
No: let us live, or let us die like MEN;
Come on, my friends, to Alfred we will cut
Our glorious way; or, as we nobly perish,
Will offer, to the genius of our country,
Whole hecatombs of Danes."
As if one soul had moved them all,
Around their heads, they flashed
Their flaming falchions-"Lead us to those
Our country! VENGEANCE!" was the gen'ral cry!
523. PASSIONS. 1. The passions and desires,
like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix
one with the other, and twine inextricably
round the heart; producing good, if mode-
rately indulged; but certain destruction, if
suffered to become inordinate. 2. Passion-
is the great mover and spring of the soul:
when men's passions are strongest, they may
have great and noble effects; but they are
then also, apt to lead to the greatest evils.

Anecdote. Pungent Preaching. An old
man being asked his opinion of a certain ser-
mon, replied, "I liked it very well, except
that there was no pinch to it. I always like
to have a pinch to every sermon.”
Want is a bitter and a hateful good,
Because its virtues are not understood.
Yet many things, impossible to thought,
Have been, by need, to full perfection brought.
The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives,
And, if in patience taken, mends our lives;
For even that indigence which brings me low
Makes me myself, and him above, to know;
A good which none would challenge, few would
A fair possession, which mankind refuse. [choose,
If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
The darts of love, like lightning, wound within,
And, tho' they pierce it, never hurt the skin;
They leave no marks behind them where they fly,
Tho' thro' the tend'rest part of all, the eye.
Darkness-the curtain drops on life's dull scene

designs and most perfect practical skill, can do
nothing useful; without skill, his design could
do nothing with the best of tools; and without
design, his skill and tools would be both inopera-
tive thus again, three distinct essentials are
seen to be necessary in every thing.

Mercy! I know it not,-for I am miserable;
I'll give thee misery, for here she dwells,
This is her home, where the sun never dawns.
The bird of night-sits screaming o'er the roof;
Grim spectres-sweep along the horrid gloom;
And naught is heard, but wailing and lamenting.
Hark! something cracks above! it shakes! it totters!
And the nodding ra falls to crush us!

'Tis fallen! 'tis here! I felt it on my brain !
A waving flood-of bluish fire swells o'er me!
And now, 'tis out; and I am drowned in blood!
Ha! what art thou thou horrid, headless trunk!
It is my Hastings:-see! he wafts me on;
Away! I go: 1 fly: I follow thee!

Varieties. 1. Can actions be really good,
unless they proceed from good motives ? 2.
By doubting, we are led to think; or, conside!
whether it be so, and to collect reasons, and
thereby to bring that truth rationally into our
minds. 3. The effects of music-are pro-
duced directly upon the affections, without
the intervention of thought. 4. What shall
we do, to obtain justice, when we are injur.
ed? Seek recompense at law, if at all. 5.
Suppose a person insults us in such a man-
ner, that the law cannot give us redress?
Then forgive him. 6. In the Lord, are infi-
nite love, infinite wisdom, and infinite power
or authority,-which three essential attri-
butes-constitute the only God of heaven
and earth. 7. The New Testament was di
vided into verses, in 1551, by Robert Stevens,
for the convenience of reference to a Concor-
dance; and the Old Testament is supposed
to have been divided into verses, about the
same time; those divisions, of course, are of
no authority; nor are the punctuations.
All live by seeming.
The beggar begs with it, the gay courtier
Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming
The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
Will eke with it his service. All admit it,
All practice it; and he, who is content
With showing what he is, shall have small credi
In church, or camp, or state. So wags the world
What is this world? Thy school, O misery!
Our only lesson, is-to learn to suffer;
And he who knows not that, was born for nothing

morse.

If thou be'st Death, I'll give thee England's treasures,
Enough to purchase such another island,
So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain.
Bring me to my trial, when you will;

524. DESPAIR. Shakspeare has most exqui- | saw a spider climbing up one of the rafters ; sitely depicted this passion, where he has drawn the insect fell, but immediately made a second cardinal Beaufort, after a most ungodly life, dying with in despair, and terrified with the murder of duke attempt to ascend; and the hero saw, Humphrey, to which he was accessory. The first regret, the spider fall the second time; it then example is Despair, the second, Despair and Re- made a third unsuccessful attempt. With much interest and concern the monarch saw the spider baffled in its aim twelve times; but the thirteenth essay was successful; when the king, starting up, exclaimed, "This despicable insect has taught me perseverance I will follow its example. Have I not been twelve times defeated by the enemy's suporior force? On one fight more hangs the independence of my country." In a few days, his anticipations were realized, by the glorious victory at the battle of Bannockburn, and the defeat of Edward the Second.

Died he not in his bed? where should he die?
Can I make men live, whether they will or no?
Oh! torture me no more; I will confess.
Alive again? then show me where he is;
I'll give a thousand pounds to look upon him.
He hath no eyes,-the dust-hath blinded them;
Cotab down his hair; look! LOOK! it stands upright,
Like lime-twigs-to catch my winged soul;
Give me some drink, and bid the apothecary
Bring in the strong poison, that I bought of him.
Henceforth-let no man-trust the first false step
To guilt. It hangs upon a precipice,
Whose deep descent, in fast perdition ends.

Varieties. 1. The bee-rests on natural flowers, never on painted ones, however inimitably the color may be laid on; apply this to all things. 2. The rapidity with which the body may travel by steam, is indicative of

How far-am I plunged down, beyond all thought, the progress which the mind is about to make;

Which I this evening framed!

Consummate horror! guilt-beyond a name!
Dare not my soul repent. In thee, repentance

and improvements in machinery-represent those which are developing in the art of teach

Were second guilt, and 'twere blaspheming heavening. 3. Equal and exact justice to all, of
To hope for mercy. My pain can only cease
When gods want power to punish. Ha! the dawn!
Rise, never more, O! sun! let night prevail.
Eternal darkness-close the world's wide scene:
And hide me-from myself.

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whatever state, or persuasim, religious and political. 4. What is matter? and what are its essential properties, and what its primeval form? 5. How much more do we know of the nature of matter, than we do of the essential properties of spirit? 6. What is the origin of the earth, and in what form did it originally exist,-in a gaseous, or igneous form? 7. Everything that exists, is designed to aid in developing and perfecting both body and mind: the universe is our school-house.

DESPAIR makes a despicable figure, and descends from a meau original. "Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness, and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of hon esty too. I would not despair, unless I saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. I am not mad; this hair I tear is mine; My name is Constance; I was Goffrey's wife; Young Arthur-is my son,-and he is lost. I am not mad; I would to heaven I were; For then, 'tis like I should forget myself.

525. GRIEF is disappointment, devoid of hope;
but muscles braced instantly, imply hope strongly,
and a spirited vivacity in the eye, is the effect of
pleasure and elevation. They are inconsistent
with a passion that depresses, which grief mani-Oh, if I could, what grief-I should forget!
festly does; because depression slackens the
net 23, and unbraced nerves deject the looks and
air, necessarily; therefore, a relaxed mien, and
languid eye, form the truest picture of natural
orrow. The smaller engraving represents vacant
grief, and the other deep silent grief.
I'll go, and, in the anguish of my heart,
Weep o'er my child,-if he must die, my life
Is wrapt in his; and shall not long survive;
'Tis for his sake, that I have suffered life,
Gre ined in captivity, and outlived Hector,
Yes, my As-ty-a-nax! we will go together;
TOGETHER-to the realms-of night—we'll go.
Anecdote. Lesson from a Spider. King
Robert Bruce, the restorer of the Scottish
monarchy, being out one day reconnoitering
the army, lay alone in a barn. In the morn-
ing, still reclining on his pillow of straw, he

Preach some philosophy-to make me mad,
And, cardinal, thou shalt be canonized;
For being not mad, but sensible of grief,
My reasonable part produces reason,
That I may be delivered of these woes,
And teaches me to kill, or hang myself;
If I were mad, I should forget my son,
Or madly think a bale of rags were he.
I am not mad; too well I feel
The diffused plague of each calamity.
Make thy demand on those, who own thy power,
Know, I am still beyond thee; and tho' fortune
Has stripp'd me of this train, this pomp of greatness,
This outside of a king, yet still—my soul
Fixed high, and on herself alone dependent,
Is ever free and royal; and even now,
As at the head of battle, does defy thee.

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 Gadsly, over the en trance 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 truth destroys the truth; except, with those away use, any more than the falsification of 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 reflec tions upon them all, is useful for perfecting the rational faculties of the mind: and all

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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!
Let truth, in all her native charms appear,
And with the voice of harmony itself
Plead the just cause of innocence traduc'd;
Deaf as the adder, blind as upstart greatness,
She sees, nor hears. And yet, let slander whisper,
Rumor has fewer tongues than she has ears;
And Argus' hundrd eyes are dim and slow,
To piercing jealousy's.

527. THE FRUITs. Men, instead of applying the salutary medicines of philosophy and religion to abate the rage, and recover the temper of their Vinted imaginations, cherish the disease in their osoms, until their increasing appetites, like the hounds of Action, 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: If there be breadth, 'twill catch the damp and show it. Jealous rage-is but a hasty flame, That blazes out, when love too fiercely burns.

It is jealousy's peculiar nature,
To swell small things to great; nay, out of nought,
To conjure much, and then to lose its reason
Amid the hideous phantoms it has formed.

Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy
Doth call himself affection's sentinel;
Gives false alarms, suggesteth mutiny,
And, in a peaceful hour, doth cry, kill, kill;
Distempering gentle love with his desire,
As air and water do abate the fire.

How blest am I
In my just censure! in my true opinion!-
Alack for lesser knowledge !-how accurs'd
In being so bless'd! There may be in the cup
A spider steep'd, and one may drink, depart,
And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge
Is not infected; but if one present

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!

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 not be ashamed to own, that he has been in 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 coc 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

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