Shoots o'er his features, as the sudden gust Crisps the reluctant lake, that lay so calm Beneath the mountain shadow; or the blast Ruffles the autumn leaves, that. drooping, cling Faintly, and motionless to their lov'd boughs. What avails [pain, Valor or strength, though matchless, quelled with Which all subdues, and makes remiss the hands Of mightiest? Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life, perhaps, and not repine; But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils! and, excessive, overturns All patience. And not a virtue in the bosom lives That gives such ready pay as patience gives; Anecdote. The Philosopher Outdone. A learned philosopher, being in his study, a little girl came for some fire. Says the doctor, "But you have nothing to take it in ;" and as he was going to fetch something, the girl, taking some cold ashes in one hand, put the live coals on with the other. The astonished sage threw down his books, saying, "With all my learning, I should never have found out that expedient." Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam' afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or, on wide-waving wings expanded, bear The flying chariot-through the fields of air. The brave-do never shun the light; Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers; Proverbs. 1. The true economy of everything is to gather up the fragments of time, as well as of materials. 2. The earlier children are taught to be useful, the better; not only for themselves, but for all others. 3. Consider that day as lost, in which something has not been done for the benefit of others, as well as for yourself. 4. False pride, or foolish ambition, should never induce us to live beyond our income. 5. To associate with influential and genteel people, with an appearance of equality, has its advantages; especially, where there are sons or daughters just entering on the stage of action; but, like all other external advantages, they have their proper price, and may be bought too dearly; never pay too much for the whistle." 6. Never let the cheapness of an article tempt you to purchase it, if you do not really need it; for nothing is cheap, that we do not want. 7. Vanity and pride must yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence. Miscellaneous. Great Britain-has dotted over the surface of the globe, with her possessions and military posts; and her morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circle the earth daily, with one unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. The steam-engine is or the rivers, and the boatman may rest upon his oars; it is in the highways, and begins to exert itself along the courses of land-conveyances; it is at the bottom of mines, a thousand feet below the surface of the earth; it is in the mill and in the workshop of the traders; it rows, it pumps, it excavates, it ploughs, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints; and seems to say to artisans, Leave your manual labor, give over your bodily toil, use your skill and reason to direct my power, and I will bear toil, with no muscle to grow weary, no nerve to relax, no breast to feel faintness. VARIETIES. Cease, mourners; cease complaint and weep no Preach patience to the sea, when jarring winds, Full of high feeding, madly hath broken loose, And bears down all before him. The day shall come, that great avenging day, Strike! strike the tyrants, and avenge my tears. ACUTE PAIN, 493. Bodily, or mental. signifies a high degree of pain, which may appro priately be called AGONY, OF ANGUISH; the agony is a severe and permanent pain; the anguish an overwhelming pain: a pang-is a sharp pain, and generally of short continuance: the pangs of conscience frequently trouble the person who is not hardened in guilt; and the pangs o disappointed love are among the severest to be borne: What pangs the tender breast of Dido tear!" COMPLAINING-(as when one is under violent pain.) distorts the features, almost closes the eyes; sometimes raises them wistfully; opens the mouth. gnashes the teeth, draws up the upper lip, draws down the head upon the breast, and contracts the whole body: the arms are violently bent at the elbows, and the fists clenched, the voice is uttered in groans, lamentations, and sometimes in violent screams: extreme torture producing fainting and death. Oh, rid me of this torture, quickly there, [breath: return from the public schools; and when they had entered their mother's apartment, she, pointing to them, said to the lady "These are my jewels; the only ornaments I admire." Laconics. 1. If we complained less, and tried to encourage and help each other more, we should find all our duties more easily performed. 2. Happiness-consists in the delight of perform ing uses for the sake of uses: that is, doing good for the sake of good, instead of the love of reward, which is a selfish feeling: all selfish feelings pro duce unhappiness in the degree they are entertained. 3. If we would be happy, we must put away, as far as we can, those thoughts and feel ings, that have reference to self alone, and cultivate the higher ones, that have reference to the good of others, as well as ourselves. 4. To do good, for the sake of delight in doing good, is a selfish motive; but to do good to others, for the sake of making them happy, and, in doing it, for5. If we get ourselves, is a heavenly motive. would act from right motives, we must endeavor to put away every feeling, that is purely selfish; in doing which, every effort will give us strength, like the repeated efforts of a child, in learning to walk. 6. Parents should keep their children from every association that may tend to their injury, either in precept or practice. 7. Love is omnipo tent. care Varieties. 1. That profusion of lan. But now, streamed like a bath, with her thickguage, and poverty of thought, which is called being spontaneous, and original, is no A lawyer could not have been heard. nor scarce, proof of simplicity of heart, or freedom of Another woman, such hail of words she let fall. 2. What! the rogue who robb'd me? do understanding; there is more paper than hang him, drown him, burn him, flay him gold, more words than i-leas, in this alive. 3. Hold your tongue, we don't want less wealth." 2. Combined with goodness to hear your nonsense about eating; hold and truth, ORATORY is one of the most gloyour tongue, and answer the questions, which rious distinctions of man; it is a power, that the justice is going put to you, about the mo- influences all: it elevates the affections and ney I lost, and which I suppose you have thoughts to enthusiasm; and animates us in joy, and soothes us in sorrow; instructs, guides, and persuades us. 3. To resolve a proposition into its simplest elements, we must reason a posteriori; by observing the relation of sequences, we are enabled to supply antecedents, involving the same relation; thus, amounting to the simplest state of a proposition. taken. Hide not thy tears: weep boldly--and be proud O, who can hold a fire in his hand, What nothing earthly gives, or, can destroy, The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Without good company, all dainties ADMIRATION. 7494. A mixed pass on, consisting of wonder, mingled with pleasing, emotions; as veneration,love, esteem, takes away the familiar gesture and expression of simple love: it is a compound passion, excited by something novel, rare, great, or excellent, either of persons or their works: thus we How this grace Speaks his own standing! what a mental power Old men and beldames, in the streets, Do prophecy upon it dangerously; Young Arthur's death is common in their mouths; And when they talk of him they shake their he'ds, And whisper one another in the ear; And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's wrist; Whilst he that hears, makes fearful action, With wrinkl'd brows with nods.with rolling eyes I saw a smith stand with his hammer thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth, swallowing a tailor's news: Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, view the solar system with admiration. It Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste keeps the respectful look and attitude the syes Had safely thrust upon contrary feet,) are wide open, and now and then raised towards heaven; the mouth is open; the hands Told of a many thousand warlike French, lifted up; the tone of voice rapturons; speaks That were embattled and rank'd in Kent: copiously and in hyperboles. Admiration- Another lean unwash'd artificer is looking at any thing attentively with appre-, Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death. ciation; the admirer suspends his thoughts, not i from the vacancy, but from the fullness of his mind: he is riveted to an object, which temporarily absorbs his faculties: nothing but what is good and great, excites admiration; and none but cultivated minds are very susceptible of it; an ignorant person cannot admire: because he does not appreciate the value of the thing: the form and use must be seen at any rate. How beautiful the world is! The green earth. covered with flowers-the frees, laden with rich blossoms the blue sky and the bright water, and the golden sunshine. The world is, indeed, beautiful; and He, who made it, must be beautifu'. Anecdote. It was so 'natural for Dr. Watts to speak in rhyme, that even at the very time he wished to avoid it, he could not. His father was di pleased at this propensity, and threatened to whip him, if he did not leave off making verses. One day, when he was about to put his threat in execution, the child burst into tears, and on his knees, said: Pray father. do, some pity take, And I will no more verses make. Varieties. 1. What is a better security against calumny, and reproach, than a good conscience? 2. What we commence-from It is a happy world. Hark! how the merthe impulse of virtue, we too often continue ry birds sing-and the young lambs-see! how they gambol on the hili le. Even the is the offspring of independence and virtue from the spur of ambition; avarice, herself, trees wave, and the brooks ripple, in glul-3. Wealth, suddenly acquired, will rarely ness. Yon eagle!-ah! how joyously he soars up to the glorious heavens-the bird of America. "His throne-is on the mountain-top; The midway sun-is clear and bright; It is happ-I see it, and hear it all about me-nay, I feel it here, in the glow, the eloquent glow of my own heart. He who made it, must be happy. It is a great world! Look off to the mighty ocean, when the storm is upon it; to the huge mountain, when the thunder and the lightnings play over it; to the vast forest, the interminable waste; the sun, the moon, and the myria's of fair stars, countless as the sands upon the sea-shore. It is a great, a magnificent world, and He, who made it, oh! He is the perfection of all loveliness, all goodness, all greatness, all glory. abile; nothing but quiet, consistent industry, can render any people prosperous and happy. 4. Did you ever think seriously of the design, and uses of the thumb? 5. Music, in pracfice, may be called the gymnastics of the affections. 6. The difference between honor, and honesty--seems to be principally in the motive; as the homest man does that from love and duty, which the man of honor does, for the sake of character. 7. If there be any thing, which makes one ridiculous, to beings of superior faculties, it must be pride. 8. As is the mother, so is the daughter; think of this O ye mothers, and improve. The rich are wise. He that upon his back rich garmen's wears, In these thy lowest works: yet these declare Fair Portia's counterfeit? What demi-god Anecdote. While Thucidydes was yet a boy, he heard Herodotus recite his histories, at the olympic games, and is said to have wept exceedingly. The "Father of Historians," observing how much the boy was mored, congratulated his father, on having a child of such promise, and advised him to spare no mains in his education. Thucidydes became one of the best historians of Greece. Wise legislators never yet con'd draw A fox within the reach of cominon law; For posture, dress, grimace, and affectation, Though foes to sense, are harmless to the nation; Our last redress is dint of verse to try, And satire is our Court of Chancery. Maxims. 1. Never consider the opinions others in a matter that does not concern them. 2. It is of but little use to argue a point with one, whose mind is made up on the subject. 3. Beware of objections, founded on wrong ideas. 4. A wooman's conclusions are generally proof against the most eloquent reasonings. 5. Look within, instead of without, for the true criterion of action, and be manly and independent. 6. Let the square and rule of life be-Is it right? 7. Be cautious in yielding your better judgment to the wishes of others. 8. We generally err, in undertaking-what we do not understand. 9. They will surely be wise, who profit by experience. 10. A clear head-makes sure work. Temperance. Happy are they that have made their escape from the drinking custom of the world, and enrolled their names amongst the friends of Temperance; for, by so dong, they have most probably escaped from an early death. Death, not only of the body, but of the soul, for the habit of intoxication is calculated to destroy both. Varieties. 1. When once you profess yourself a friend, be always such. 2. Blume not, before you have examined: und rstand, then rebuke. 3. Some people will never learn anything; for this reason, they understand everything too soon. 4. Who can calculate the importance of learning to say, No. 5. By following the order of Providence, and obeying the laws of life and being, we shall, not become fatigued. 6. Abstraction, is the power, which the understanding has, of separating the combinations, which are presented to it; it is also called the power of considering qualiti 8, or attributes of one object, apart from the rest. 7. There is a Providence in the least of man's thoughts and actions; yea, in all his common and trifling concerns. Words are like leaves; and where they most a- 4. Children 496. THE MINOR, AND SOME OF THE MA- Maxims. 1. If a person fees wrong, he will FOR PASSIONS. The following common ex-be very sure to judge wrong, and thence de pressions are full of meaning: such judg- wrong. 2. Passions strong, judgment wrong, all ments are passed every day, concerning dif- the world over. 3. Always do the very best you ferent individuals; "You might have seen it can, and then you'll be a wise man. in his eyes: the looks of the man is enough; should be encouraged to do, whatever they unhe has an honest countenance: his manner aims low, can never hit exalted objects; and he dertake, in the very best manner. 5. He who sets every one at his ease; I will trust him who is accustomed to do the best he can, in lower for his honest face; should he deceive me, I things, will be best prepared to attain excellence will never trust any body again; he cannot in the highest. 6. Children should never be al look a person in the face; his appearauce is lowed to fall into habits of disorder in anything; against him; he is better (or worse,) than I nor permitted to put things out of order, or mak took him to be." work for others. 7. Of goods, prefer the greatest; of evils choose the least. 8. Children are always more attracted and interested by oral instruction, than by book instruction. 497. ADMONI TION assumes a grave air bordering on severity; the head is sometimes shaken at the person we admonishi, as if we felt for the miseries he was likely to bring upon himself; the hand is directed to the person spoken to, and the fore-fnger. projected f.or. the rest. sers to point more parcu larly to the danger we give warning of; the voice assumes a low pitch, bordering on a monotone, with a mixture of severity and sympathy of pity, and reproach. Anecdote. A Quaker-was waited on by four of his workmen, to make their compli ments to him, and ask for their usual Newyear's gifts. The Quaker told them, There are your gifts, choose fifteen francs, or the Bible. All took the francs, but a lad, about fourteen, who chose the Bible, as the Quaker said it was a good book; and, on opening it he found, between the leaves, a gold piece of forty francs. The others held down their heads, and the giver told them, he was sorry they had not made a better choice. nature for our en Varieties. 1. We cannot be truly just, without prudence, or truly prudent, without MISCELLANEOUS. 1. The habituating chil- justice; because prudence leads us to indren to work for, and serve the poor, particu-quire what is just; and justice alone can larly poor children, with a good will, may justly be regarded, as tending to promote the prevent that perversion of intellect taking reception of the highest order and quality of place, which often passes for prudence, but is heavenly virtue. 2. It is not in knowing the only cunning, the offspring or selfishness. will of God, but in doing it, that we shall be 2. Temperance signifies the right use of tho blessed. 3. The nobles aspect in which the joyment, so that they may not injure, but right things, furnis: ed b divine majesty of the Lord can be viewed, benefit us; and instead of unfitting us for is that, in which he presented himself, when our duties, dispose and fit us for their perhe said, that he "come, not to be ministered formance. 3. He, who is not temperate, is a unto, but to minister;" and how great a priv-slave to his appetites and passions; the slave ilege ought we to esteem it to be, to follow of drinking, gluttony and lust; of prite, his example. 4. What a pity it is, that pa- vanity and ambition; because he is not at rents and teachers are not more anxious to liberty to be, what he was created to be. mend the heart, than furnish the heads of their children and pupils! 5. Charity is The prophet spoke: when, with a gloomy frown, The monarch started--from his shining throne; something more than a word, or wish; it is Black choler filled his breast, that Lol'd with irg the consistent practice of true wisdom. And, from his eyeballs. flashed the living fire. Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Of beasts. it is confessed the ape-Another thing--to fall. I not denyComes nearest us--in human shape; The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, Like man. he imitates each fashions; May, on the sworn twelve, have a thief or two, And malice-18 h s ruling passion. Guiltier than him they try; what's open made 'To justice, that it seizes on. What know [nant. The laws, that thieves do pass on thieves? 'tis pregThe jewel that we find, we stoop and tak't Because we see it; but what we do not see, We tread upon. and never think of it. You may not so extenuate his offence, For I have had such faults; but rather tell me When I, that censure him, do not so offend, Let mine own judgment pattern out my death, And nothing come in partial. He must die. I hate, when rice can bolt her arguments, If sweet content is ban shed from my soul. |