son threatened. 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: 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- GIVING A DAUGHTER IN MARRIAGE. Have given you here a thread of mine own life, I tender to thy hand; all thy vexations 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; 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, The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art, Think not the good, The gentle deeds of mercy-thou hast done, 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 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! My eager heart springs up, and leaps with joy. 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, Tis the Creator's primary great law, 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, 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 Anecdote. Pungent Preaching. An old designs and most perfect practical skill, can do Mercy! I know it not,-for I am miserable; 'Tis fallen! 'tis here! I felt it on my brain ! Varieties. 1. Can actions be really good, morse. If thou be'st Death, I'll give thee England's treasures, 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? 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! 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 X 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; Preach some philosophy-to make me mad, 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 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 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, Where love reigns, disturbing jealousy 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! 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 |