247. TEACHING, INSTRUCTING. EXPLAINING. INCULCATING, OR GIVING ORDERS, requires a mild. serene air, sometimes approaching to an authortative gravity; the features and gestures altering according to the age. or dign ty of the pupil. or audience, and importance of the subject discussed. To youth, it should be mild, open, serene, ani condescending. To equals and super ors, modest and diffident; but, when the subject is of great dignity and importance, the air and manner of conveying the instruction, ought to be firm and emphatical; the eve steady and open, the eyebrow a little draw over it, but not so much as to look dogmatcal; the voice strong, steady, clear; the articulaon distinct; the utterance slow, and the manner approaching to confidence, rather peremptory. Pol. Wherefore, gentle maiden,

Laconics. 1. It is very easy, when a child asks a silly quest on, to show that it is so; and, if the question cannot be answered, it is better to say so at once; for a child has too much common perception to expect that his parent knows ev'ry thing; but to refuse to answer, without giving a reason, impresses the child, that his parent is unkind and unreasonable. 2. The very sight of a child ought to inspire a parent, or teacher, with the thought, "What can I say to be useful to bần? or what can I say to please him?" 3. The Labit of talking familiarly and usefully to his children, to each according to his capacity, is an invaluable quality in a parent, and its exercise will be de

Do you neglect your gilly-flowers and carnations? lightful to both. 4. Let it be a rule with us, in all Per. I have heard it said,

There is an art, which, in their piedness, shares
With great creating nature.

Pol. Say there be;

Yet nature is made better by no mean,

But nature makes that mean; so, over that art,
Which you say adds to nature, is an art
Which nature makes; you see, sweet maid, we
A gentler scion to the wildest stock; [marry
And make conceive a bark of baser kind
By bud of nobler race. This is an art
Which does mend nature, change it rather; but
The art itself is nature.

548. LANGUAGE OF THE FEET. The feet advance or retreat, to express desire or aversion, love or hatret, courage or fear, dancing or leaping, is often the effect of joy and exallation; stamping of the feet expresses ernestness, anger or threatening. Stability of position and facility of change, general ease and grace of actum, depend on the right use of the feet; see the whole length engravings, a large part of which is to be imitate l, not with any specifle recitations in view, but for the purpose of disciplining the limbs and muscles.

cases, never to charge want of charity, except where we can, from a want of justice.

Anecdote. Sir Isaac Newton-possessed a remarkably mild and even temper. On a particular occasion, he was called out of his study, to an adjoining apartment, when his favorite little dog, named Diamond, threw down a lighted lamp among his papers, and the almost finished labors of many ears, were consumed in a few moments. Sir Isaac soon returned, and beheld, with great mortification, his irreparable loss; but he only exclaimed, with his usual self-possession, " Diamond, Diamond! thou little knowest the mischuf thou hast done."

You undergo too strict a paradox,

Striving to make an ugly deed look fair:

Your words have took such pains, as if they habor'd
To bring manslaughter into form, set quarrding
Upon the head of valor; which, in feed,

Is valor misbeget, and came into the world
When sects and factions were newly born:
He's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer
The worst, that man can breathe; and make bis terongs
His outsider; wear them, like his raiment, carelessly;
And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart,
To bring it into danger.

If wrongs be evils, and erfreed, us kill,
What folly 'tis, to hazard life for ill?

Varieties. 1. Is toleration a duty for others, and not for ourselves? 2. One blessing of life, my dear friend, is-to gire. 3. It is nc proof of freedom from error, that we are acute in distinguishing the errors of others; this shows that all reformers, are men of like pussions with ourselves. 4. National industry is the principal thing, that can make a nation great; it is the vestal tire, which we must keep alive, and consider that all our prosperity is coupled with its existence. 5. If we are fit for heaven, are we not fit for earth? 6. It is better to live contentedly in our condition. than to affect to look bigger than we are. by a borrowed appearance. 7. Give your children education rather than fine clothes, or rich foot. 8. Love-never reckons; the mother does not run up a milk score against her babe.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty:
For, in my youth, I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did not, with unbashful forehead, woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore, my age-is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly.

Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay, my heart of heart.

!

Anecdote. The benevolent and immortal 549. VENERATION. In religious veneration, the body always bends forward, as if ready to John Howard, a celebrated English philan prostrate itself before the Lord of Hosts; the thropist, having settled his accounts, at the arms are spread out, but modestly, as high as the close of a particular year, and found a bal breast, and the hands are open; the tone of ance in his favor, proposed to his wife to emvoice is submissive, timid, trembling, weak, suppliant; the words are brought out with a visible ploy it, in defraying the expenses of a jouranxiety, approaching to hesitation; they are few, ney to London; or for any other amusement and slowly pronounced; nothing of vain repeti- she might prefer. "What a pretty cottage," tion, haranguing, flowers of rhetoric, or reflected she replied, "would this build for a pr figures of speech; all simplicity, humility, lowli- family." The charitable hint met his appro ness, such as become a worm of dust, when pre-bation, and the money was laid out accord suming to address the high and lofty One, who ingly. inhabiteth Eternity; yet dwelleth with the meek and contrite spirit, that trembleth at His Word. In intercession for our fellow creatures, and in thanksgiving, we naturally assume a small degree of cheerfulness, beyond what is clothed in confession and deprecation: all affected ornaments in speech or gesture, in devotion, are very censurable. Example:

Hail, Source of Being! Universal Soul
Of heaven and earth! Essential Presence, hail!
To Thee-I bend the knee; to Thee my thoughts
Continual climb; who, with a master hand,
Hast the great whole into perfection touched."

Almighty God,-'tis right,-'tis just,
That earthly forms should turn to dust;
But oh the sweet-transporting truth,
The soul-shall bloom-in endless youth.
550. NATURAL LANGUAGE OF THE
HANDS. The hand-has a great share in
expressing our thoughts and feelings: raising
the hands towards heaven, with the palms
united, expresses devotion and supplication;
wringing them, grief; throwing them towards
heaven, admiration; dejected hands, despair
and amazement; folding them, idleness;
holding the fingers intermingled, musing and
thoughtfulness; holding them forth together,
yielding and submission; lifting them and
the eyes to heaven, solemn appeal; waving
the hand from us, prohibition; extending the
right hand to any one, peace, pity, and safety;
scratching the head, care and perplexing
thought; laying the right hand on the heart,
affection and solemn affirmation; holding
ip the thumb, approbation; placing the
right forefinger on the lips perpendicularly,
bidding silence, &c. &c. In these, and many
other ways, are manifested our sentiments
and passions by the action of the body: but
they are shown principally in the face, and
particularly in the turn of the eye, and the
eyebrows, and the infinitely various motions
of the lips.

551. WONDER-is inquisitive fear: and as it is inquisitive, it is steadfast, and demands firm muscles; but as it is fear, it cannot be properly expressed without the mark of apprehension and alarm. Were this alarm too much disturbed. full of motion and anxiety, it would then be Fear instead of Wonder, and would carry no consistence, with braced muscles; it is therefore nerved, because inquisitive, with purpose of defence and so, this application of alarm, with resolution to examine steadfastly, must constitute a nervous, awful. fixed attentiveness, and give the picture of the passion naturally. The effect of wonder is, to stop, or hold the mind and body in the states and positions in which the idea or object strikes us.

Says the earth to the moon," You're a pilf'ring jade,
What you steal from the sun, is beyond all be-
Fair Cynthia replies, "Hold your prate, [lief,"
The partaker-is as bad as the thief"

No more thus brooding o'er yon heap, With av'rice painful vigils keep; Still unenjoy'd the present store, Still endless sighs are breath'd for more, Oh! quit the shadow, catch the prize, Which not all India's treasure buys! To purchase heav'n, has gold the pow'r ? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life, can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No-all that's worth a wish-a thought, Fair virtue gives, unbrib'd, unbought. Cease, then, on trash thy hopes to bind; Let nobler views engage thy mind. Varieties. 1. When we are polite to others, entirely for our own sakes, we are deceitful; for nothing selfish has truth and goodness in it. But there is such a thing as true politeness, always kind, never deceitful. 2. The outward forms of politeness, are but the expressions of such feelings, as should dwell in every human heart. 3. True politeness is the spontaneous movement of a good heart, and an observing mind. 4. Will the ruling propensities of the parent, be transmitted to the child, and affect, and give bias to his churacter? 5. Foolish people are sometimes so ambitious of being thought wise, that they often run great hazards in attempting to show themselves such. 6. Guill may attain tempo. ral splendor, but can never confer real happi ness. 7. The principles, which your reason and judgment approve, avow boldly, and adhere to steadfastly; nor let any false notions of honor, or pitiful ambition of shining, ever tempt you to forsake them.

A TALE OF WONDER.

Now the laugh shakes the hall, and the ruddy
Who, who is so merry and gay? [wine flows;
Lemona is happy, for little she knows
Of the monster so grim, that lay hush'd in repose,
Expecting his evening prey.

While the music play'd sweet, and, with tripping

Bruno danc'd thro' the maze of the hall; [so light,
Lemona retir'd, and her maidens in white,
Led her up to her chamber, and bid her good night,
Then, went down again to the hall.

The monster of blood-now extended his claws,

And from under the bed did he creep; [paws;
With blood all besmear'd, he now stretch'd out his
With blood all besmear'd, he now stretch'd out
To feed-on the angel-asleep. [his jaws,

He seiz'd on a vein, and gave such a bite,
And he gave, with his fangs, such a tug-
She shriek'd! Bruno ran up the stairs in a fright•
The guests follow'd after, when bro't to the light,

"O have mercy!" they cried, "WHAT A BUG!"
You'll ne'er convince a fool, rimself is so.

ON NEGLECTING ONE'S DUTY.

O what a rogue and peasant slave am I;
Is it not monstrous, that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own counsel,
That, from her working, all his visage warmed;
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,

A broken voice, and his whole function suiting,
With forms to his conceit; and all for nothing;
For Hec-u-ba! What's Hec-u-ba to him, or he, to
That he should weep for her?
[Hecuba,
553. LANGUAGE OF THE HEAD. Every
part of the body contributes to express our
thoughts and affections; hence the necessity
of training the whole man. The head is some-
times erect, denoting courage, or firmness;
at others, down, or reclined, expressive of sor-
row, grief and shame; again, it is suddenly
drawn back, with an air of disdain, or shaken,
as in dissent; or brought forward in assent;
sometimes it shows, by a significant nod, a
particular object, or person; threatens by one
set of movements, approves by another, and
expresses suspicion by another. Private
practice must make all involuntary.

As yet-tis midnight deep. The weary clouds,
Slow meeting, mingle into solid gloom.
Now, while the drowsy world lies lost in sleep,
Let me associate with the serious night,
And contemplation, her sedate compeer;
Let me shake off th' intrusive cares of day,
And lay the meddling senses all aside.
Where now, ye lying vanities of life!
Ye ever tempting, ever cheating train!
Where are you now? and what is your amount?
Veration, disappointment, and remorse.
Sad, sick ning thought! And yet, deluded man,
A scene of crude disjointed visions past,
And broken slumbers, rises still resolv'd,
With new flush'd hopes, to run the giddy round.

so far as silent language is concerned. The

Moderation in Disputes. When we are in a condition to overthrow falsehood and error, we ought not to do it with vehemence, nor insultingly and with an air of contempt; but to lay open the truth, and with answers, full of mildness, to refute the falsehood.

Anecdote. An amiable youth, lamented deeply, the recent death of a most affectionate parent. His companion made an effort to console him, by the reflection, that he had always behaved towards the deceased with du ty, tenderness and respect. "So I thought," replied the son, "while my parent was liv ing; but now I recollect, with pain and sorrowe, many instances of disobedience, and neglect, for which, alas! it is too late to make atonement."

Happy the school-boy! did he prize his bliss,
Twere ill exchang'd-for all the dazzling gems,
That gaily sparkle in ambition's eye;
His are the joys of nature, his the smile,
The cherub smile of innocence and health,
Sorrow unknown, or, if a tear be shed,
He wipes it soon: for hark! the cheerful voice
Of comrades calls him to the top, or ball;
Away he hies, and clamors as he goes,
With glee, which causes him to tread on air

Reason. Without reason, as on a tem pestuous sea, we are the sport of every wind and wave, and know not, till the event hath determined it, how the next billow will dispose of us; whether it will dash us against a rock, or drive us into a quiet harbor.

What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted?
Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just;
And he, but naked, though lock'd up in steel,
Whose conscience-with injustice is corrupted.

Varieties. 1. The dullest creatures are sometimes as dangerous as the fairest. 2. He, who puts a man off from time to time, is never right at heart. 3. What can reason perform, unassisted by the imagination? While reason traces and compares effects, does not imagination suggest causes? 4. Whenever we are more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may be certain, that our zeal has more of 554. LANGUAGE OF THE FACE. The face, self-love in it, than charity; that we are seekbeing furnished with a great variety of mus ing victory, more than truth, and are begincles, does more in manifesting our thoughtsning to feel more for ourselves, than for others, and feelings, than the whole body besides; sible, without divine aid, to obey the com and the cause of righteousness. 5. Is it poschange of color-shows anger by redness, mundments 2 6. As soon think of sending fear by paleness, and shume-by blushes a man into the field, without good fools, as a every feature contributes its portion. The child to school, without proper books. mouth open, shows one state of mind; closed, What is more low and vile, than lying? and another, and gnashing the teeth-another. when do we lie more notoriously, than in dis The forehead smooth, and eye-brows easily paraging, and finding fault with a thing, for arched, exhibit joy, or tranquillity mirth no other reason, than because it is out of our opens the mouth towards the ears, crisps power to accomplish it? the nose, half shuts the eyes, and sometimes suffuses them with fears; the front, wrinkled into frowns, and the eye-brow's overhanging the eyes, like clouds fraught with tempests, show a mind agitated with pily. There is a history-in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased: The which observed, a man may prophecy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life; which, in their seeds, And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.

Luxury-gives the mind a childish cast.

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.
The breath of night's destructive to the he
Of every flower that blows. Go to the field,
And ask the humble daisy, why it sleeps
Soon as the sun departs. Why close the eyes
Of blossoms infinite, ere the still moon
Her oriental rail puts off? Think why,
Nor let the sweetest blossom be exposed,
That nature boasts, to night's untimely damp.
There is no merit, when there is no trial;
And, till experience-stamps the mark of strength,
Cowards-may pass for heroes, faith, for falsehood

555. The eyes, considered only as tangi- Anecdote. Tweedie-dum and Tweedleble objects, are, by their very forms, the win-dee. About the year 1720, there were two dows of the sout-the fountains of life and musical parties in England; one in favor of light. Mere feeling would discover, that two Italians, Buo-non-ci-ni and At-fil-io, and their size and globular shape are not unmean- the other admirers of Handel: and the con ing. The eye-brow, whether gradually sunk-tention running high, Dean Swift, with his en, or boldy prominent, is equally worthy of usual acrimony in such cases, wrote the folattention: as likewise are the temples, whieth-lowing epigram:

er hollow, or smooth. That region of the face,
which includes the eye-brows, eyes and nose,
also includes the chief region of the will
and understanding.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
Some, that will evermore peep through their eyes,
And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper;
And other of such vinegar aspect,
That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.

Some say, that signior Buononcini,
Compared to Handel's a inere ninny:
Others do swear, that to him-Handel
Is hardly fit to hold a candle.

Strange-that such high contests should be
"Twixt tweedle-dum-and tweedle-dee.

True Phrenology--treats of the manifestations of man's feelings and intellect; his heart and his head; his will and under standing; and their related objects, physica and moral; principles, giving a knowledge 556. The images of our secret agitations of one's original character; of his excellen are particularly painted in the eyes, which cies and talents, and how to make the most appertain more to the soul, than any other of them; of his defects, and how to remedy organ; which seem affected by, and to par- them; of reasoning and persuading-of edticipate in all its emotions; express scusa-ucation and self-government: a system of tions the most live y, passions the most tumultuous, feelings the most delightful, and sentiments the most delicate. The eye--EXVarieties. 1. All are modest. when they feel plains them in all their force and purity, as they take birth, and transmits them by traits that they are estimated, at what they consid30 rapit, as to infuse into other minds the der their just value; and incline to presume, in fire, the activity, the very image, with which the proportion they feel they are slighted. 2. It themselves are inspired. It receives and re-signifies but little-to wish well, without doing flects the intelligence of thought and warmth of the understanding.

One world sufficed not Alexander's mind :
Coop'd up he seem'd, in earth and seas confin'd;
And struggling, stretch'd his restless limbs about
The narrow globe, to find a passage out:
Yet, enter'd in the brick-built town, he try'd
The tomb, and found the straight dimensions wide.
Death only, this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul-how small a body holds.

537. LANGUAGE OF THE EYES. The eye is the chif seat of the soul's expression; it shows the very spirit in a visible form. In every different state of mind, it appears dif. ferently: joy-brightens and opens it; grief; balt closes, and drowns it in fears; hatred, and anger, flash from it, like lightning; love-darts from it in glances, like the orient | beam; jealousy--and squinting envy, dart their contagious blasts through the eyes; and devotion-raises them, or throws them back on the mind, as if the soul were about to take its flight to heaven.

From women's eyes-this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still-the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academies,
That show, contain, and nourish-all the world;
Lise none at all—in aught—proves excellent.
Old age-'s honorable; the spirit-seems
Leady for its flight-10 brighter worlds,-
And that strange change, which men miscall decay,
Is renovated life. The feeble voice,
With which the soul attempts to speak its meaning,
Is like the sky-lark's note, heard faintest, when
Its wing sours highest; and whose hoary signs,
Those hite and reverend locks, which move the
Of thoug„tless ri cuis, seem to me like snow, (scorn
Upon the Apine sunm 1. - only proving-
How neurit 8-to heaten.

mental and moral philosophy, challenging investigation.

well; as to do well, without willing it. 3. None
is so great, but that he may one day need the help,
or feel the unkindness-of the meanest of mortals.
4. The more business a man has, the more he is
able to accomplish: for he learns to economize hia
time. 5. A ready recollection of our knowledge,
at the moment we have use for it, is a rare and
important acquisition. 6. The passions are plead-
ETS, and their violence sometimes goes directly to
the heart. 7. As a vessel is known by the sound,
whether it is whole or not, so, men are known by
speeches and actions, whether they are wise or
foolish.

All the souls that were, were forfeit once,
And He, that might the 'vantage best have took,
Found out the remely. How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are? O, think on that,
And mercy then, w il breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.

If row'rs dirine

Behold our human actions. (as they do.)
I doubt not then, but innocence shall make
False accusation-blush, and tyranny-
Tremble at patience.

That happy minglement of hearts,
Where, changed as chemic compounds are,
Each with its own existence parts,

To find a new one, happier tar.

We-ignorant of ourselves,

Beg after our own harm, which the wise powers
Deny us-for our good; so find we profit,
By losing our prayers.

So very still that echo seems to listen;
We almost hear the music of the spheres,
And any that we catch the notes of angels.
High stat ons tumult but not Miss create.