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 Pol. Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean; so, over that art, 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 Is valor misbeget, and came into the world If wrongs be evils, and erfreed, us kill, 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: Give me that man ! 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 Almighty God,-'tis right,-'tis just, 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, 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 While the music play'd sweet, and, with tripping Bruno danc'd thro' the maze of the hall; [so light, The monster of blood-now extended his claws, And from under the bed did he creep; [paws; He seiz'd on a vein, and gave such a bite, "O have mercy!" they cried, "WHAT A BUG!" ON NEGLECTING ONE'S DUTY. O what a rogue and peasant slave am I; A broken voice, and his whole function suiting, As yet-tis midnight deep. The weary clouds, 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, 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? 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. 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, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some say, that signior Buononcini, Strange-that such high contests should be 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 : 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: mental and moral philosophy, challenging investigation. well; as to do well, without willing it. 3. None All the souls that were, were forfeit once, If row'rs dirine Behold our human actions. (as they do.) That happy minglement of hearts, To find a new one, happier tar. We-ignorant of ourselves, Beg after our own harm, which the wise powers So very still that echo seems to listen; 557. THE MOUTH. Who does not know how much the upper lip betokens the sensations of taste, desire, appetite, and the endearments of love? how much it is curled by pride or anger, drawn thin by cunning, smoothed oy benevolence, and made placid by effeminacy? how love and desire, sighs and kisses, cling to it by indescribable traits. The under lip is little more than its supporter, the easy cushion on which the crown of majesty reposes. The chaste and delicate mouth, is one of the first recommendations we meet with in common life. Words are the pictures of the mind; we often judge of the heart by the portal; it holds the laggon of truth, of love, and enduring friendship. If there's on earth a cure For the sunk heart, 'tis this-day after day To be the blest companion of thy way!To hear thy angel eloquence-to see Those virtuous eyes forever turn'd on me; And, in their light, re-chasten'd silently, Like the stain'd teeb, that whitens in the sun, Grow pure-by being purely shone upon! 558. LANGUAGE OF THE ARMS AND HANDS. The arms are sometimes both thrown out; at others the right alone; they are lifted up as high as the face, to express wonder, or held out before the breast to show fear; when spread forth with open hands, they express lesire and affection; or clasped in surprise on occasions of sudden grief and joy; the right nand clenched, and the arms brandishedthreaten; the arms set a-kimbo, (one hand on each hip,) makes one look big, or expresses contempt, or courage. As a beam-o'er the face of the waters-may złow, 559. QUINCTILLAN says, that with the hands, we solicit, refuse, promise, threaten, dismiss, invite, entreat, and express aversion, fear, doubting, denial, asking, aflirmation, nexation, joy, grief, confession and penitence. With the hands we describe, and point all circumstances of time, place and manner of what we relate; with them we also excite the passions of others and soothe them, approve or disapprove, permit, prohibit, admire and despise; thus, they serve us instead of sorts of words; and, where the language of the tongue is unknown, or the person is deaf, the Janguage of the hands is understood, and is common to all nations. Between two worlds--life hovers like a star, many Laconics. 1. There is no great necessity for us to be anxious about what good works we shal do, in order to salvation; because the Lus ness of religion is to shun all evils as sins. 2. Never be so sinfully inconsistent, as to tell a child, that such and such things are naughty, and then, because his self-will is unyielding, leave him to persist in doing it; better, far better would it be, to let the poor child do wrong, in ignorance. 3. Every one should receive a scientific, civil, and religious education, and then he will be fitted for the life that now is, and that which is to come. 4. Teach children what is good and true, and lead them to goodness, by precept and example. 5. Gratitude is the sure basis of an amiable mind. Anecdote. Right of Discovery. A gentleman, praising the personal charins of a very homely woman, before Mr. Foot, the comedian, who whis, ered to him, “And why don't you lay claims to such an accomplished beauty!" "What right have I to her!" said the other. "Every right-by the law of nations, as the first discoverer." Meanwhile, we'll sacrifice to liberty. Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, Varieties. 1. Will the time ever arrive, when the air will be as full of balloons, as the ocean now is with ships? 2. Reading history and traveling, give a severe trial to our vir tues. 3. It is not right to feel contempt for any thing, to which God has given if and being. 4. Four things belong to a judge: to hear cautiously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to give judgment without partiality. 5. Regard talents and genius, as solemn mandates to go forth, and labor in your sphere of usefulness, and to keep ulive the sacred fire among your fellow men; and turn not these precious gifts, into servants of evil; neither offer them on the altar of vanity. nor sell them for a mess of potage, nor a piece of money. 6. The lust war between the Uni ted States and England, commenced on the eight months and eighteen days; when did it 18th of June, 1812, and continued two years, end? 7. Let us manage our time as well as we can, there will get some of it remain unemployed. fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. The kindest, and the happiest pair, |