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528. JUDGING- demands a grave, steady look, with deep attention, the countenance altogether clear from any appearance, either of disgust, or favor: the pronunciation slow, distinct, and emphatical, accompanied with little action, and that very grave.

JUDGING ACCORDING TO STRICT LAW.

If you refuse to wed Demetrius-
Either must you die the death, or abjure,
Forever, the society of men.

Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires,
Know of your youth, examine well your blood,
Whether, not yielding to your father's choice,
You can endure the livery of a nun;
For aye-to be in a shady cloister mew'd;
Chaunting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon.
Take time to pause, and, by the next new moon,
(The sealing day betwixt my love and me,
For everlasting bond of fellowship,)
Upon that day, either prepare to die,
For disobedience to your father's will,
Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
Or on Diana's altar to protest-
For age-austerity—and single life.

Anecdote. In the early peril of the French revolution, when the throne and the altar had been overturned, a Benedictine monastery was entered, by a devastating band, its inmates treated with wanton and unpro voked cruelty, and the work of demolition and plunder going on,-when a large body of the inhabitants rallied, drove the spoilers away, but secured the ringleaders, whom they would have severely punished, had not the abbot, who had received the worst indignities from these very leaders, rushed forward to protect them. "I thank you, my children," said he, "for your seasonable interference; let us, however, show the superiority of reli gion, by displaying our clemency, and suffering them to depart." The ruffians were overpowered by the abbot's humanity, fell at his feet, entreated his benediction and forgiveness. But yonder-comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. The less'ning cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow, Illum'd with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad. Lo, now, apparent all Aslant the dew-bright earth, and color'd air, He looks-in boundless majesty abroad; And sheds the shining day, that, burnish'd, plays On rocks, and hills, and tow'rs, and wand'ring High gleaming from afar. [streams,

Miscellaneous. 1. In opening a cause, give a general view or the grounds on which the charge is made, and of the extent, magnitude, tendency, and effect of the crime alledged. 2. There is some consolation for dull authors, that the confectioner may put good into their books, if they fail to do it themselves. 3. Uncle Toby's oath: "The accusing spirit, Varieties. 1. Should we be governed by which flew up to heaven's chancery, with the our feelings, or by our judgment? 2. Earths, oath, blushed-as he gave it in; and the re-waters, and aimospheres-are the three gecording angel-dropped a tear upon it, and neral elements, of which all natural things blotted it out forever. 4. Would not many are made. 3. The human body is composed persons be very much surprised, if their ideas of all the essential things which are in the of heavenly joys, should be exhibited here- world of nature. 4. The three periods of our after, to show them their falsity? 5. Beauty development are-infancy, including the first is given, to remind us, that the soul should be seven years; childhood--the second seven, kept as fair and perfect in its proportions, as and youth-the third seven; the close of the temple in which it dwells; the spirit of which,—is the beginning of manhood. 5. beauty flows in, only where these proportions Adolescence-is that state, when man begins are harmonious. 6. Can any one be a lover to think, and act―for himself, and not from of truth, and a searcher after it, and yet turn the instruction, and direction of others his back on it, when presented, and call for The cerebellum, and consequently, the vomiracles? 7. The aphorism," Know thy-luntary principle of the mind, never sleeps ; self,” is soon spoken, but one is a long time in obeying it; Gracian-was placed among the seven wise men of Greece, for having been the author of the maxim; but never, replied the sage, was any one placed there for having performed it.

Who painted Justice blind, did not declare

What magistrates should be, but what they are:
Not so much, 'cause they rich and poor should weigh
In their just scales alike; but, because they,
Now blind with bribes, are grown so weak of sight,
They'll sooner feel a cause, than see it right.
Justice, painted blind,

Infers, his ministers are obliged to hear
The cause; and truth, the judge, determine of it;
And not sway'd or by favor, or affection,
By a false gloss, or corrected comment, alter
The true intent and letter of the law.

Man's rich with litt, were his judgment true.

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but the cerebrum, and of course, the reason-
ing faculty-does. 7. Beware of the errone-
ous opinion, that you must be remarkably
original; and that to speak, and write, un-
like anybody else, is a great merit.

"Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune.
Must fall out with men too: what the declin'd is,
He shall as soon read-in the eyes of others,
As feel-in his own fall: for men, like butterflics,
Show not their mealy wings, but to the summer
He stood up

Firm in his better strength, and like a tree
Rooted in Lebanon, his frame bent not.
His thin, white hairs-had yielded to the wind,
And left his brow uncovered; and his face,
Impressed with the stern majesty of grief,
Nerved to a solemn duty, now stood forth
Like a rent rock, submissive, yet sublime.

529. MALICE, or Spite, is a habitual malevolence, long continued, and watching occasion to exert itself on the hated object; this hateful disposition sets the jaws and gnashes the teeth, sends blasting flashes from the eyes, stretches the mouth horizontally, clinches the fiats, and bends the elbows in a straining manner to the body; the tone of voice, and expression, are much the same as in anger, but not so loud; which see. These two engravings represent, the smaller one, revengeful hatred, and the other, abhorrence, fear, contempt, without power, or

courage.

How like a fawning publican he looks!
I hate him, for he is a christian,
But more, for that, in low simplicity,

He ends out money gratis, and brings down
The rates of usance, here with us in Venice.
If I can catch him-once upon the hip,
I will feed fat-the ancient grudge I bear him.
He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,
(Even there where merch'nts most do congregate,)
On my bargains, and my well-won thrift;
Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,
If I forgive him.

530. MELANCHOLY, or Fixed Grief, is gloomy, sedentary, and motionless. The lower jaw falls, the lips are pale, the eyes cast down, half shut, the eyelids swollen and red, or livid tears trickling silently and unmixed, with total inattention to anything that passes. Words, if any, are few, and those dragged out rather than spoken; the accents weak and interrupted, sighs breaking into the middle of words and sentences.

There is a stupid weight-upon my senses;
A dismal sullen stillness, that succeeds
The storm of rage and grief, like silent death,
After the tumult, and the noise of life. [like it;
Would-it were death; as sure, 'tis wondrous
For I am sick of living. My soul is peel'd:
She kindles not anger, or revenge,
Love-was the informing, active fire within:
Now that is quenched, the mass forgets to move,
And longs to mingle-with its kindred earth.
The glance

Of melancholy-is a fearful gift;
What is it, but the telescope of truth?
Which strips the distance of its phantasies,
And brings life near-in utter nakedness,
Making the cold reality-too real!

Moody and dull melancholy,

Kinsman to grief and comfortless despair. Warth makes the man, and want of it the fellow.

MELANCHOLY-discloses its symptoms accord ing to the sentiments and passions of the minds it affects. An ambitious man fancies himselt a lord, statesman, minister, king, emperor, or monarch, and pleases his mind with the vain hopes of even future preferment. The mind of a covetous man sees nothing but his re or spc, and looks at the most valuable objects with an eye of hope, or with the fond conceit, that they are already his own. A love-sick brain adores, in romantic strains, the lovely idol of his heart, or sighs in real misery, at her fancied frowns. And a scholar's mind evaporates in the fumes of imaginary praise and literary distinction.

Anecdote. Routs. "How strange it is," said a lady, "that fashionable parties should be called routs? Why, rout, formerly sig nified-the defeat of an army; and when soldiers were all put to flight, or to the sword, they were said to be routed!" "This title has some propriety too;" said an observer of men and things, "for at these meetings, whole families are frequently routed out of

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Varieties. 1. Agriculture-is the true foundation of all trade and industry; and of course, the foundation of individual and national riches. 2. When the moon, on a clear, autumnal evening, is moving through the heavens in silent glory, the earth-seems like a slumbering babe, smiling in its sleep, because it dreams of heaven. 3. The truths of science are not only useful, in themselves, but their influence is exceedingly beneficial in mental culture. 4. Let your amusements be select and temperate, and such as will fit you for the better performance of your du ties; all others are positively injurious. 5. Raise the edifice of your virtue and happiness, on the sure foundation of true religion, or love to God, and love to man. 6. That will be well and speedily done in a family or community, when each one does his part faithfully. 7. Eloquence--is the power of seizing the attention, with irresistable force, and never permitting it to elude the grasp, till the hearer has received the conviction, that the speaker intends.

That I must die, it is my only comfort;
Death-is the privilege of human nature,
And life, without it, were not worth our taking,
Thither-the poor, the prisoner, and the mourner,
Fly for relief, and lay their burthen's down.
Come then, and take me into thy cold arms,
Thou ineagre shade; here, let me breathe my last.
Charmed, with my father's pity and forgiveness,
More than if angels tuned their golden viols,
And sung a requiem-to my parting soul.
On the sands of life
Sorrow treads heavily, and leaves a print,
Time cannot wash away; while Joy trips by
With steps so light and soft, that the next wave
Wears his faint foot-falls out.

And coming events-cast heir shadows before.

Admiration and Love. There is a wide difference between adiniration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, al

531. PARDONING-differs from acquitting, in this-the latter-means clearing a person, after trial, of guilt; whereas, the former-supposes guilt, and signifies merely delivering the guilty person from 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, submit to what we admire, but we love what unmixed approbation; otherwise, its expression is much the same as granting; which see. submits to us; in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.

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.

Graat 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-comes to the general state;
Which humbleness-may drive into a fine.

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 agitated, alters its aspect, as having discovered something; then, falls into contemplation as before; the motions of the body are restless and unequal; 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?
Still as the grave
Shall she come in? wer't good?
I think she stirs again. No. What's the best?
If she come in, she'll speak to my wife.

Laconics. 1. Every one, who would be an orator, should study Longinus on the sublime. ?. Many of our books, containing pieces for declomation, 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 "Songs of the People," for all trades and avocations? 4. Laters 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 devotional.

Varieties. 1. He, who will peep into a drawer, will likely be tempted to take something out of it; and he, who steals a cent in 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 principles and apply them to practice; and when this is generally done, mankind will Anecdote. Peter the Great made a law, possible for us to understand a thing, without be brought nearer to equality. 5. It is as imin 1722, that if any nobleman beat, or ill-having the image of it on the retina of the treated his slaves, he should be looked upon mind's eye, as it is to see any thing, without 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 education 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 on to perform? this, exclaimed, with tears in his eyes: I have 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 aimless dreams,
But to improve ourselves—and serve mankind,
Life-and its choicest faculties were given.
Man should be ever better-than he seems:

And shape his acts, 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 advanc'd;
A Deity belov'd, is joy matur'1.

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 exalts, and makes it sweeter still;
Pray'r ardent opens heav'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 notions, which they ne'er invent.
Some judge of authors' names, not works; and then
Nor praise, nor blame the writings, but the men.

of doing these things, or of having them imputed

533. MODESTY-is a diffidence of ourselves, Punishments. There are dreadfui pus accompanied with delicacy in our sense of what-ishments enacted against thieves; but it were ever is mean, indirect, or dishonorable, or a fear much better to make such good provisions, by 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.

to us.

Submission is 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 character; the voice is low, the tone sub- Varieties. 1. Some politicians consider missive, and the words few. Submission adds honesty excellent in theory,-and policy safe to them a lower bending of the head, and a in practice; thus admitting the absurd theory, spreading out of the arms and bands, down-that principles entirely false, and corrupt in

wards 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.

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 moral sense of the people, is the sheetanchor, 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 reject, without due examination. 7. Ill man

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,ners are evidence of low breeding. 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 supposes others below our regard, it is contempt, scorn, or disdain. Pride assumes a lofty look, bordering on the look and aspect of anger. The eyes full and open, but with the eye-brow considerably 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. Obstinacy-When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, adds to the aspect of pride.

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 malefactors to punishment. On being informed of the facts, he burst into tears; when one of his courtiers endeavored to comfort him, saying, "In a commonwealth, there must be punishment; it cannot be avoided, as mankind 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?

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 ita birth: or time
Will soon conspire to make it strong enough
To overcome the truth.

Short is her life, and impotent her sting;
But, when to truth allied, the wound she gives
Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

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,
Sits on me as a cloud along the sky,
which will not let the sunbeams through, nor yet
Descend in rain and end, but spreads itself
"Twixt earth and heaven, like envy between
And man, an everlasting mist.
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SONNET.

Like an enfranchised bird, that wildl springs,
With a keen sparkle in his glancing ve,
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,

And 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 stain.
Whole years of joy glide unperceived away,
While sorrow counts the minutes as they pass

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

Laconics. 1. We must be strze ed 1 y all things of one thing, if we would know that one thing thoroughly. 2. The evolution of the natural sciences, amounts to the creation of a new sphere, in the human mind. 3. All truths, scientific, philo sophical 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 my at take up, and complete the operation. 6. There is a universal analogy between all the spheres of creation, natural, mental and spiritual, and btween nature, and all things in human society. Nature-is simple and easy, it is man that is diffi cult and perplexed.

Where'er I go, my soul shall stay with thee; Tis but my shadow, that I take away. 536. REFUSING,when accompanied with displeasure, is done nearly the same way as dismissing with displeasure: without it-it is done Genius. They say of poets, that they must with a visible reluctance, that occasions the bring-be born such; so must mathematicians, so 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:

must great generals, and so must lawyers, 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 Iliad; nor Newton his Principia, without immense labor.

They answer-in a joint-and corporate voice,
That now-they are a falt-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 capa, and co.a-noving woras--
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,

Light 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 law,
The threat'ning storms obey,
Intrepid virtue-smiles secure,

As in the blaze of day.

Varieties. 1. When you can do it, with

Till withering sorrow blanch'd the white rose there; out injury to truth and mereu, always avoid
But grief did lay his icy finger on it,
And chill'd it-to a cold and joyless statue.

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 deliv together 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 ve said 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 others will do from their mutual recollection: and this draw-much for us? 6. Every deceiver, whether by ing was the original of all the portraits we 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 side,
His cloud-capt eminence-divide;

And spread the ruin round.

Nature-is frugal, and her wants are few.

word, or deed, is a liar; and no one, that has
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 present, you're absent-my dear;
And when you are absent-you're present.

How charming-is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,

And a perpetual feast-of nectar'd sweets,

Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seeming devotion doth but gild the knave,
That's neither faithful, honest, just nor brave;
But where religion doth-with virtue join,
It makes a hero-like an angel shine.

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