natural, or morai, so as to commian cate pleasure: as it generally sappos super oray in the person commending, it assures the aspect of love (but without desire and i spect) and expresses itself in a mild tone of vo ce. with a small degree of confidence; the arms are gently spread, the hands open, with the palms upwards, directed toward the person approved, and sometimes lifted up and down, as it pronouncing pra se. 506. COMMENDATION-is the expression of the Luconies. 1. To devolve on science the du appro ation we have for any object, in which ties of religion, or on religion the duties of science, we find any congraty to our ideas of excellence. is to bind together the living and the dead. 2. The prevailing error of our times is, the caltivation of the intellectual faculties, to the neglect of the moral faculties; when the former alone are develop'd, the child has acquired the means of doing good of evil-to himself. to society, to his country, or to the world; but practical goodness alone, can preseive the equilibrium. 3. Many persons have an unfor tunate pass on for inventing fictions, merely for the purpose of exciting amazement in the'r hearers. 4. Those who, without having sufficient knowledge of us, forin an unfavorable opinion respect ing us, do not injure us; they reflect on a pha ntom of their own imagination. You have done our pleasures very much grace. fair O good old man, how well in thee-appears The heart, like a tendril, accustomed to cling, Let it go where it will, cannot flourish alone; It can twine with itself, and make closely its oun 507. OBSERVATION. Nothing appears Shines-like the eternal sun-to shine forever. No heart, and cannot feel; where'er she moves, Anecdote. During the mock trial of Louis XVI., he was asked, what he had done with a certain sum of money, a few thousand pounds. His voice failed him, and the tears came into his eyes at the question; at length te replied "I LOVED TO MAKE THE PEOPLE HAPPY." He had given the money away in charity. Sweet-was the sound, when oft, at evening's close, Of doing Injuries to Others. Propitious conscience, thou equitable and ready judge, be never absent from me! Tell me, constantly. that I cannot do the least injury to another, without receiving the counter-stroke; that I must necessarily wound myself, when I wound another. NATURE ALWAYS TRUE. Nature-never did betray 508. THE PASSIONS. Plato calls the passions, | story of his loss, and when he had finished, the wings of the soul. According to this meta"You are welcome," said he, "my son here phor, a bird may be considered as the type of it; and, in applying this figure to the several charac- will show you where it is; no hand has ters of men, some are eagles. others are bats and touched it, but the one that covered it, that owls; a few are swans, and many are geese; no phor-you might receive what you had lost.” nix among them all. In another place, he styles the passions the chariot-horses of the soul; by which is implied, that though strong and fleet, they should be under command. COMPLAINING OF EXTREME PAIN. Search, there; nay, probe me; search iny wounded Oh! I am shot! A forked burning arrow-- Laconies. 1. Owe nothing. 10 your advancement, save your own unassisted exertions, if you would retain what you acquire. 2. When passion rules us, it deprives of reason, suspends the faculty of reflection, blinds the judgment, and precipitates us into acts of violence, or excesses; the consequences of which we may forever deplore. 3. With those who are of a gloomy turn of mind, be reserved; with the old, be serious; and with the young, be merry. 4. In forming matrimonial alliances, undue effort is made to reconcile everything relating to fortune, and family; but very little is paid to congeniality of dispositions, or accordance of hearts. 5. Moral knowledge is to be sought from the WORD of God; scientific knowledge from the works of God. 6. By union-the most trifling beginnings thrice and increase; by disunion-the most flourishing-fall to the ground. 7. Is not the union of CAPITAL, TALENT and LABOR, the SALVATION of the WORLD, temporally and spiritually? Why turnest thou from me? I'm alone Already, and to the seas complaining. What can thy imag'ry of sorrow mean? Secluded from the world, and all its care, Hast thou to grieve, or joy; to hope, or fear? Why should we anticipate our sorrows? "Tis like those, who die-for fear of death. 509. CURIOSITY-opens the eyes and mouth. lengthens the neck, bends the Lody forward and fixes it in one posture, with the hands nearly as in admiration with astonishment: when it speaks, the voice, tone and gesture are nearly as in inqui-er-lame, were called to a distant place; but ry, which see; also Desire, Attention, Hope and Perplexity. CURIOSITY AT FIRST SEEING A FINE OBJECT. Varieties. 1. Good neighborhoods supply all wants; which may be thus illustrated. Two neighbors, one-blind and the oth how could they obey? The blind man carried the lame one, who directed the carrier where to go. Is not this a good illustration, Pros. The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, of faith and charity? Charity-acts, and And say what thou seest yonder. Mir. What! is't a spirit? Lo, how it looks about! believe, sir, It carries a brave form. But 'tis a spirit. faith-guides; i. e. the will-impels, and he understanding - directs. 2. Superficial writers, like the mole, often fancy themselves Pros. No, wench, it eats and sleeps, and hath deep, when they are exceeding near the As we have, such. Mir. I might call him A thing divine, for nothing natural, [such senses 510. DENYING-what is affirmed, is but an affirmation of the contrary, and is expressed like affirmation, pushing the open right hand from one, and turning the face another way. Denying a favor--see refusing, denying an accusation. If I in act consent, or sin of thought, Anecdote. The Os-ti-ack Boy. A Russian surface. Trifles make the sum of human things, How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air, In full-orbed glory yonder moon divine The desert circle spreads, How beautiful is night! No station is in view, was traveling from Tobalsk to Reresow; and, Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky: on the road, stopped a night at the hut of an Ostiack. In the morning, on continuing his journey, he found he had lost his purse. The son of the Ostiack, about fourteen, had found | the purse; but, instead of taking it up, he went and told his father; who was equally unwilling to touch it, and ordered the boy to rover it with some bushes. On the Russian's return, he stopped at the same hut; the Ostiack did not recognize him. He related the Nor palm-grove islanded amid the waste. The widowed mother and the fatherless boy Wander o'er the desert sands. 511. DISMISSING-with approbation, is done Varieties. 1. The most disgusting vices-are with a kind aspect and tone of voice; the right often concealed under the fairest exterior. 2. A hand open and palin upward, gently raised towards the person: with displeasure-besides the knowledge of the human heart, is, by no means, look and tone of voice that suit displeasure, the detrimental to the love of all mankind. 3. One hand is hastily thrown out towards the person dis-person cannot render another-indispensable; not missed, the back part of the hand towards him. and the countenance, at the same time, turned away from him. Chatillon says to king John: Then take my king's defiance from my mouth, K. J. Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace: 512. DIFFER NG-in sentiment, may be expressed nearly as Refusing, which see; and dgreeing in opinion, or being convineed, is expressed nearly as granting, which also see.DISTRACTION-Opens the eyes to a frightful wideness, rolls them hastily and wildly from object to olject, dis torts every feature; gnashes with the teeth; agitates all parts of the body; rolls in the dust; foams at the mouth; utters hideous bellowings-execratious-blasphemies. and all that is fierce and outrageous; rushes furiously on all who approach, and, if restrained, tears its own flesh and destroys itself. See the engraving, indicating dread. abhorrence, &c. DOTAGE. or infrin old age, shows itself by talkativeness; boasting of the past; hollowness of the cheeks; dimness of sight; deafness; tremor of vo ce; the accents, through default of the teeth, scarcely intelligible; knees tottering; hard wheezing; laborious groaning; the body stooping under the insupportable weight of years, which will soon crush it into the dust, whence it had its or gin. What folly can be ranker? like our shadows, can one supply the place of another. 4. The least For my past crimes--my forfeit life receive: It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which, HEART TO HEART, and. MIND to MIND, Anecdote. Stan-is-laus, king of Poland, was driven from his dominion by Charles XII. of Sweden; he took refuge in Paris, where he was supported at the expense of the court of France. Some person complained to the duke of Orleans, (then regent,) of the great expense of the exiled monarch, and wished that he should be desired to leave. The duke nobly replied: "Sir, France has ever been, and I trust ever will be, the refuge of unfortunate princes; and I shall not permit it to be violated, when so excellent a prince as the king of Poland comes to claim it." The winds And rolling waves, the sun's unwearied course. The elements-and seasons, all declareFor what-the eternal MAKER-has ordained The powers of man; we feel, within ourselves, His energy divine. He tells the heart, He meant, he made us-to behold, and love, What HIE beholds and loves, the GENERAL orb Of life-and being; to be great—like him, Beneficent, and active. Thus, the men, Whom nature's works can charm, with Gop hims Hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, With his conceptions; act upon his plan. And form to his-the relish of their souls. An honest soul-is like a ship at sea, That sleeps at anchor-upon the ocean's calm; But, when it rages, and the wind blows high, She cuts her way with skill-and majesty 513. ExпORTING, OF ENCOURAGING. is earnest persas on attended with confidence of success; voce has the softness of love, interinixed with the firmness of courage; the arms are sometimes spread, with the hands open, as entreating; orcasionally the right hand is lifted up, and struck rap dly down. as enforcing what is said. In a generi, at the head his ariny, it requires a kind, Complacent look. unless matters of offence have passed, as neglect of duty, &c. But wherefore do you droop? Why look you sad? Be stirring with the time; be fire-with fire; Extremes. The subline of nature is the sky, sun, moon, stars, &c. The profound of nature, is, gold, pearls, precious stones, and the treasures of the deep, which are inomable as unknown. But all that lies between these, as corn, flowers, frú:ts, animals, and things for the mere use of man, are of mean price, and so cominon, as not to be greatly esteemed by the curious; it being certain, that any thing of which we know the true use cannot be invaluable: which affords a soiution, why common sense hath either been totally despised, or held in small repute, by the greatest modern critics and authors. Varieties. 1. The arts are divided into the useful, and the polite, the fine, and the elegant; some are for use, and others for pleasure; Elvcution is of a mixed nature, in which use and beauty are of nearly co-equal influence; manner being as important as matter, or more so. 2. Our gov. ernment. is a government of laws, not of men; but it will lose this character, if the laws furnish no remedy for the volation of vested rights. 3. Nature has given us tico eyes and two ears, and but one tongue; that we should see and hear more than we speak. 4. The weariness of study is removed by loving it, and valuing the results for their uses. 5. The three kingdoms of nature, are the Mineral, the Vegetable, and the Animal: minerals are destitute of organization and life; 514. FAINTING-produces a sudden relaxution of ad that holds the human frame together-every sinew and ligament unstrung. the color flies from the verm ion cheek, the sparkling eye grows dim down the body drops, as helpless and senseless as a mass of clay, to which it seems hasten-vegetables, or plants, are endowed with organizaing to resolve itself. And lo sad partner of the genial care, Can suore upon the flint, when rusty sloth, Anecdote. A poor priest came one day, to Louis XI. of France, when this monarch was at his devotions, in the church, and told him, the bailiffs were about to arrest him for sum, he was unable to pay. The king ordered him the money; saying-You have chosen your time to address ine very luckily. It is but just that I should show some compassion to the distressed,when I have been entreating Gol to have compassion on myself." ADDRESSED TO AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY. On, that the muse might call, without offence, The gallant soldier back to his good sense, His temp'ral field so cautious not to lose; So careless quite of his eternal foes. Soldier! so tender of thy prince's fame, Why so profuse of a superior name} For the king's sake. the brunt of battles bear, Put-for the King of k ́ng's sake-do not swear. How many bright [high! And splendent lamps shine in heaven's temple Day hath his golden sun, her moon the night, Her fix'd and wand'ring sters the azure sky: So fram'd all by their Creator's might, [die. Tha s'll they live and shine, and ne'er shall There's a lust in man-no power can tame, Of lordly publishing-his neighbor's shame; On eagle's wings-immortal scandols fly, Whilst virtuous actions are but born to die. tion and Life, but are destitute of voluntary motion 515. FATIGUE-from severe or hard labor.1 gives a general languor to the body; the countenance is dejected, the arms hang listless; the body, (if not sitting, or lying along.) stoops as in old age; the legs, if walking, drag heavily along, and seem, at every step, to bend under the weight of the body; the voice is weak, and hardly articulate enough to be understood. I see a man's life is a tedious one: I've tir'd myself, and for two nights, together- 516. GRAVITY.-seriousness, as when the mind is fixed, or deliberating on some important subject, smooths the countenance, and gives it an air of melancholy; the eye-brows are lowered, the eyes cast downwards, and partially closed, or raised to Heaven: the mouth shut, the lips composed, and Sometimes a little contracted: the postures of the body and limbs composed, and without much moJon; the speech. if any, slow and solemn, and the voice without much variety. Fathers! we once again are met in council: Anecdote. How to prize good Fortune. In the year preceding the French revolution, a servant girl, in Paris, drew a prize of fifteen hundred pounds. She immediately called on the parish priest, and generously put two hundred louisd'ors into his hands, for the relief of the most indigent and industrious poor in the district; accompanying the donation with this admirable and just observation, "Fortune could only have been kind to me, in order that I might be kind to others." Laconics. 1. We too often form hasty opinions, from external appearances, assumed merely for deception, by the wolf in sheep's clothing. 2 While prosperity gilds your days, you may reckon many friends; but, if the clouds of adversity de scend upon you, behold, they flee away. 3. Cowards boast of their fancied process, and assume an appearance of courage, which they do not possess. 4. The life of the true christian, is not one of melancholy, and gloominess; for he only resigns the pleasure of sin, to enjoy the pleasure of holiness. 5. The blessings of peace cannot be too highly prized, nor the horrors of war too earnestly deprecated; unless the former is obtained, and the latter-averted, by a sacrifice of principle. 6. The conqueror is regarded with ate, and the learned man commands our esteem; but the good man alons is beloved. Thy words-had such a melting floro, And spoke of truth, so sweetly well, And all was brightness-where they fell. Honor and Virtue. Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those who are of all beings the most subject to change. But virtue is uniform and fixed, because she looks for approbation only from Him, who is the same yesterday-to-day-and forever. Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument. She is contracted in her views, inasmuch as her hopes are rooted in earth, bounded by time, and terminated by death. But virtue is enlarged and infinite in her hopes, inasmuch as they extend beyond present things, even to eternal; this is their proper sphere, and they will cease only in the reality of deathless enjoyment. In the storms, and in the tempests of life, honor is not to be depended on, because she herself partakes of the tumult; she also is buffeted by the wave, and borne along by the whirl wind. But virtue is above the storm, and has an anchor sure and steadfast, because it is cast into heaven. The noble Brutus worshiped honor, and in his zeal mistook her for virtue. In the day of trial he found her a shadow and a name. But no man can purchase his virtue too dear; for it is the only thing whose value Tot such as every breath fans to and fro; must ever increase with the price it has cost But born within, is its own judge and end, [know. us. Our integrity is never worth so much as And dares not sin, though sure that none should | when we have parted with our all to keep it. True Eloquence, is good sense, delivered in a natural and unaffected way, without the artificial ornament of tropes and figures. Our common eloquence is usually a cheat upon the understanding; it deceives us with appearances, instead of things, and makes us think we see reason, whilst it is only tickling our sense. Essential Lonor must be in a friend, Where friendship's spoke, honesty 's understood; For none can be a friend that is not good. DRONSON. 14 Similitudes-are like songs in love; |