ANGER, RAGE, FURY, 471. Imply excitement or violent action: when hatred and displeasure rise high, on a sudden, from an apprehension of injury received and perturbation of mind in consequence of it, it is called ANGER: and rising to a very high degree, and extinguishing humanity, it be comes RAGE and FURY: anger always renders the muscles protuberant; hence, an angry mind and protuberant muscles, are considered as cause and effect. Violent anger or rage, expresses itself with rapidity, noise, harshness, trepidation, and sometimes with interrruption and hesitation, as unable to utter itself with sufficient force. It wrinkles and clouds the brow, enlarges and heaves the nostrils; every vein swells, muscles strained, nods or shakes the head, stretches out the neck, clenches the fists, breathing hard, breast heaving, teeth shown and gnashing, face bloated, red, pale, or black; eyes red, staring, rolling and sparkling; eye-brows drawn down over them, stamps with the foot, and gives a violent agitation to the whole body. The voice assumes the highest pitch it can adopt, consistently with force and loudness; Tho' sometimes, to express anger with uncommon energy, the voice assumes a low and forci ble tone. Hear me, rash man; on thy allegiance hear me; Anger is like A full hot horse; who, being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. The short passing anger but seem'd to awaken New beauty, like flowers, that are sweetest when shaken. As zephyrs blowing below the violet, You are yoked with a lamb, A Anecdote. Sowing and Reaping. countryman, sowing his ground, two upstarts, riding that way, one of them called to him with an insolent air-"Well, honest fellow, 'tis your business to sow, but we reap the fruit of your labor." To which the Countryman replied-" "Tis very likely you may; for I am sowing hemp." The world's a book,-writ by the eternal art Laconics. 1. A little neglect may breed great mischief. 2. Retrospection and anticipation may both be turned to good account. 3. He, who would be well spoken of himself, must speak well of others. 4. Wildness of eccentricity, and thoughtlessness of conduct, are not necessary accompaniments of talent, or indications of genius. 5. Vanity and affectation, often steal into the hearts of youth, and make them very ridiculous; yet, no one is contemptible, for being what he is, but for pretending to be what he is not. 6. No speech can be severe, unless it be true; for if it be not true, it cannot apply; consequently, ite severity is destroyed by its injustice. 7. Mutual benevolence must be kept up between relatives, as well as between friends; for without this cement, whatever the building is called, it is only a castle in the air, a thing talked of, without the reality. Education. Education is to the mind, what cleanliness is to the body; the beauties of the one, as well as the other, are blemished, if not totally lost, by neglect: and as the richest diamond cannot shoot forth its lustre, wanting the lapidary's skill, so, will the latent virtue of the noblest mind be buried in obscurity, if not called forth by precept, and the rules of good manners. Varieties. 1. He that thinks he can be negligent of his expenses, is not far from being poor. 2. Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendor. 3. Similarity in sound, weakens contrast in sense. 4. There being differences of mind, each member of a family, and of the community, is best qualified for the performance of specific duties. 5. The notions of some parents are very extravagant, in wishing the teacher to make great men of their sons; while they would be much more useful, and happy, in the field, or in the workshop. 6. Write down all you can remember of a lecture, address, or book, and the RESULT will enable your teacher, as well as yourself, to decide, with a good degree of accuracy, upon your character, and the studics most appropriate for you to pursue. What is wedlock forced, but a hell, An age of discord, and continued strife! Whereas the contrary-bringeth forth bliss, And is a pattern-of celestial peace. Immortality o'ersweeps All pains, all tears, all trials, all fears, and peals, Like the eternal thunder of the deep, Into my ears, this truth-"Thou livest forever." Oh! life is a waste of wearisome hours, Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns ; And the heart that is soonest awak'd to the flowr's, Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. The soul of music-slumbers in the shell, Till waked and kindled, by the master's spell And feeling hearts, (touch them but lightly,) pea A thousand melodies, unheard before. When all things have their trial, you shall 6nd, 472. REVENGE is a propensity & endeavor to injure or pain ine offender, contrary to the laws of justice: which is attended with triumph and exultation, when the injury is inflicted, or accomplished. It exposes itself like malice, or spite, but more of voice is not so high, nor loud. Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, 473. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hinder'd me of half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorn'd my nation, thwarted my bargains, cool'd my friends, heated mine enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew! Hath not a Jew cyes? Hath not a Jew hands? organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Is he not fed with the same food; hurt with the came weapons; subject to the same diseases; heal'd by the same means: warm'd and cool'd by the same summer and winter, as a Christian is? If you stab us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by christian example? Why, REVENGE. The villiany you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go har 1, but I will better the instruction. O sacred solitude; divine retreat! Choice of the prudent! entry-of the great! By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade, We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid: The genuine offspring-of her lov'd embrace, (Strangers-on earth,) are innocence-and peace. There, from the ways of men laid safe ashore We smile-to hear the distant tempest roar; There, biece'd with health, with business unperplex'd, This life we relish, and ensure the next When will the world shake off such yokes! oh, Human Testimony. The judgment must be employed, to discern the truth or falsehood of assertions, by attending to the credibility and consistency of the different parts of the story: the veracity and character of witnesses in other respects; by comparing the assertions with accounts received from other witnesses, who could not be ignorant of the facts; and lastly, by bringing the whole to a test of a comparison with known and admitted facts. Anecdote. Scientific Enthusiasm. The enthusiasm of ardent and forcible minds, appears madness, to those who are dull and phlegmatic. The pleasure it inspires is the greatest and the most independent remuneration, that men of genius receive for their efforts and exertions. Do-na-tel-lo, the great Florentine sculptor, had been long working at his statue of Judith; and, on giving the last stroke of the chisel to it, he was heard to exclaim, Speak now! I am sure you can." Varieties. 1. How beautiful the arrangement of all living creatures, with the boundaries of their habitation! But how much more beautiful, could we but discover the law of this arrangement, or the reason, by which it is founded; that law, and the source from which it proceeds, must be the perfection of intelligence. 2. A good natured man has the whole world to be happy in. He is blest with everybody's blessing, and wherever he goes, he finds some one to love; "Unto him that hath, shall be given." 3. Parents should beware of discouraging their children, by calling them fools, half-witted, and telling them they will never know anything, &c.; but let the current flow on, and it will soon run clear: dam it up, and mischief will most. certainly ensue. 4. The agitations among the nations of the earth, cannot be mistaken: they are the struggles of opinion, writhing in its chains, and indignantly striving to caet them off; the soul bursting its trammels, forsaking its bondage, and soaring away to its native heaven of thought, where it may range at large, emancipate and free. "Peace!" shall the world, out-wearied, ever ree his ANGER, HATRED, REPROACH. 474. REPROACH-is settled anger, or hatred, chastising the object of its dislike, by casting in teeth the secret causes of his misconduct, or imperfections: the brow is contracted, the lip turn'd up with scorn, the head shaken, the voice low, as if abhorring, and the whole body expressive of aversion, contempt and loathing. Farewell, happy fields, Where joy forever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, One heav'n and earth can never hold us both: As if two suns should meet in one meridian, Thy father cannot bear thee; Fly with thy infamy to some dark cell, Debasing tendency of Anger. What a wretched thing is anger, and the commotion of the soul. If anything interposes itself between me and the object of my pursuits, what is incum bent upon me is, that I shotd put for my powers and remove it. How shall I do this? By the exercise of my understanding. To the employment of this power, a cool and exact observation is necessary; but the moment I am the slave of pas sion, my power is lost; I am turned into a beast, or rather into a drunkard; I can neither preserve my footing, nor watch my advantage, nor strike an effectual blow. Did you never see a passionate and a temperate man-pitched against each other? How like a fool did the former appear! how did his adversary turn and wind him as he pleased, like some god-controling an inferior ne. ture! It is by this single implement, his reason, that man tames horses, camels, and elephants, to his hand; that he tames the lion of the desert, and shuts up the hyena with bars. Anecdote. Servile Imitation. The Chinese tailors do not measure their customers, but make clothes according to the pattern given them. An American captain, being at Canton, and wanting a new coat made, sent the proper quantity of cloth, and an old one for a pattern: but, unluckily, the old coat had a patch at the elbow, which the tailor copied, to the no small mortification of his employer. Varieties. 1. Whatever tends to dissolve the Union, or lessen the sovereign authority, is hostile to our liberty and independence. 2. As the true christian religion, which is to become universal, had one local origin, so, have all genuine and specific creations had their origin, or local centre, whence they have been diffused. 3. Let an unbeliever in this religion, write down, fairly and truly, all the absurdities he believes instead of it, and he will find that it requires more faith to reject it, than it does to embrace it. 4. Reverence paid to man, on account of what is good and true; as divine in them, and as their own, is the worship of the creature, instead of the Creator, and is idolatry. 5. Man is the end of the whole creation; and all particulars of it conspire, that conjunction of him with God may be attained, and that the end may be brought to pass. False views, like that horizon's fair deceit, As the ivy-climbs the tallest tree, opens very wide the mouth, shortens the nose, draws down the eyebrows, gives the countenance an air of wildness, covers it with deadly paleness, draws back the elbows parallel, with the sides, lifts up the open hands with the fingers spread to the height of the breast, at some distance before it, so as to shield it from the dreadful object. One foot is drawn back behind the other, so that the body seems shrinking from the danger, and putting itself in a posture for flight. The heart beats violently, the breath is quick and short, and the whole body is thrown into a general tremor. The voice is weak and trembling, the sentences short, and the meaning confused and incoherent. Imminent danger produces violent shrieks, without any articulate sounds; sometimes confuses the thoughts, produces faintness, which is someimes followed by death. for sale as MSS., the French, after tonsider. Their breath is agitation, and their life Friendship. The water, that flows from a spring, does not congeal in the winter. And those sentiments of friendship, which flow from the heart, cannot be frozen in adversity. Varieties. 1. As in agriculture, he, who can produce the greatest crop is not the best farmer, but he, who can effect it with the least labor and expense; so, in society, he is not the best member, who can bring about the most apparent good, but he, who can ac comitant evil. 2. Cicero says, that Roscius, the Roman comedian, could express a sentence in as many ways by his gestures, as he himself could by his words. 3. The eye of a cultivated person is full of meaning; if you read it attentively, it will seem like a mirror, revealing the inner world of thought and feeling; as the bosom of the smooth lake reflects the image of the earth around, and the heavens above. 4. A good reader and a bad singer, and a bad reader and a good singer, is without excuse; for the same strength, purity, distinctness, flexibility and smoothness of voice, that either requires, and promotes, are subservient to each other. Ah! mercy on my soul. What is that? My old friend's ghost? They say none but wicked folks walk; I wish I were at the bot-complish it with the least admixture of contom of a coal-pit. See! how long and pale his face has grown since his death: he never was handsome; and death has improved him very much the wrong way. Pray do not come near me! I wish'd you very well when you were alive; but I could never abide a dead man, cheek by jowl with me. Ah, ah, mercy on us! No nearer, pray; if it be only to take leave of me that you are come back, I could have excused you the ceremony with all my heart; or if you-mercy on us! no nearer, pray, or, if you have wronged anybody, as you always loved money a little, I give you the word of frightened christian; I will pray as long as you please for the deliverance, or repose of your departed soul. My good, worthy, noble friend, do, pray disappear, as ever you would wish your old friend to come to his senses again. Should fate-command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant, barbarbous climes, Rivers-unknown to song; where first the sunGilds Indian mountains, or his setting beams Passion, when deep, is still-the glaring eye, Flame on the Atlantic Isles; 'tis nought to me; That reads its enemy with glance of fire; Since God-is ever present, ever felt, The lip, that curls and writhes in bitterness; In the void waste-as in the city full; The brow contracted, till its wrinkles hide And where He-vital breathes, there must be joy The keen fixed orbs that burn and flash below; When e'en, at last, the solemn hour shall come, The hand firm clench'd and quivering, and the foot And wing my mystic flight-to future worlds, Planted in attitude to spring and dart I cheerful, will obey; thee, with new powers, Its vengeance, are the language it employs. Will rising wonders sing; I cannot goWhile passions glow, the heart, like heated steel, Where universal love-smiles not around, Takes each impression, and is work'd at pleasure. Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their sons: Anecdote. Printing. It is related that From seeming evil,-still educing good, Faust, of Mentz, one of the many to whom And better,-thence again, and beteer-stillthe honor of having invented the invaluable In infinite progression. But I lose art of printing is ascribed, having carried Myself in HIM-in light ineffable: some of his Bibles to Paris, and offered them I Come then, expressive Silence-muse his prats head, shakes it with regret, just raises the eyes as if to look up, and suddenly casts them down again with sighs; the right hand sometimes beats the heart or head, and the whole body writhes as if in self-aversion. The voice has a harshness, as in hatred, and inclines to a low and reproachful tone: weeps, stamps, hurries to and fro, runs distracted, or faints away. When it is violent, grovels on the ground; tears the clothes, hair or flesh; screams; sometimes it produces torpid sullen silence, resembling total apathy. Freedom of the Press. Iiberty of the press-is the true measure of the liberty of the people. The one cannot be attacked, without injury to the other. Our thoughts ought to be perfectly free; to bridle them, or stifle them in their sanctuary, is the crime of perverted humanity. Wha can I call my own, if my thoughts are not mine. Anecdote. Prize of Immortality. On its being remarked to Zeuxis, a celebrated painter, that he was very long in finishing his works, he replied, "I am, indeed, a long time in finishing my works; but what I paint-is for ETERNITY." Varieties. 1 Many projects, which, at the first, appear plausible and inviting, in the end-prove to be very injurious. 2. Science, philosophy and religion, are our food in youth, and our delight in more advanced tife; they are ornaments to prosperity, and a comfort and refuge, in adversity; armor at home, and abroad, they pass their days and nights with us, accompany us in our travels, and in rural retirements. 3. Which is more to be dreaded, a false friend or an open ene477. REMORSE FOR DRUNKENNESS. I my? 4. Guard against being led into impruremember a mass of things, but nothing dis- dence, by yielding to an impetuous temper. tinctly; a quarrel, nothing wherefore. O that 5. There is no virtuous person, who has not men should put an enemy in their mouths to some weakness or vice; nor is there a visteal away their brains; that we should with cious one, who cannot be said to possess joy, pleasure, revel, applause, transform our- some virtue. 6. What a difficult thing it is, selves into beasts: I will ask him for my not to betray guilt in the countenance, when place again; he shall tell me-I am a drunk- it exists in the mind! 7. The strength of ard: had I as many mouths as Hydra, such one vital faculty is sometimes the occasion of an answer would stop them all. To be now a weakness in another; but, that it may not a sensible man, by and by a fool-and pres-exist, exercise no faculty or principle beyond ently-a beast! O strange! every inordi- its strength or bounds. 8. Science-relates to nate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is whatevever addresses us thro' the five senses; a devil. which are the ultimates-upon which the interiors of the mind, and the inmost of the soul-rest. GRIEF DEPLORING LOSS OF HAPPINESS. I had been happy, if the general camp, Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home! To grace, in captive bonds, his chariot-wheels! Pride, pomp, and circumstances of glorious war! Your infants in your arms, and there have sat OH, when the last account 'twixt heaven and earth How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds The live-long day, with patient expectation, Makes ill deeds done! Hadst not thou beer by, To hear the replication of your sounds, A fellow by the hand of Nature marked, Made in his concave shores? And do you now put on your best attire? Run to your houses; fall upon your knees, Pray to the gods to intermit the plague, |