There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements and owes no homage unto the sun.

Rel. Med. p. 138.

Let me not injure the felicity of others, if I say I am as happy as any; ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua, salveth all; so that whatsoever happens it is but what our daily prayers desire.

Rel. Med. p. 138.

Lastly, let us compare the trustful passage at the close of this noble work with the peroration of the fifth book of the Task, and thus part with these two kindred spirits at a moment when they BOTH (to use the language of a THIRD) proclaim

The deep, deep joy, of a confiding thought.*

*

my

most rea

These are, O Lord, the humble desires of sonable ambition, and all I dare call happiness on earth, wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence; dispose of me according to the wisdom of thy pleasure. Thy will be done, though in my own undoing!

Rel. Med. p.

*WORDSWORTH.

148.

W. COWPER.

There lives and works

A soul in all things, and that soul is God.

Task. vi. 184.

Happy the man who sees a God employed
In all the good and ill that chequer life!
Resolving all events, with their effects
And manifold results, into the will
And arbitration wise of the Supreme.

Task. ii. 161.

But oh, thou bounteous Giver of all good,
Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown:
Give what thou canst, without thee we are poor,
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt away!

Task. v. 903.

INDEX.

Abjectest (most abjectest) 127. Anticipatively [Preface.]

Access (addition or increase)33. Antipoisons 174.

Ambulatory (morality not) 160. | Asquint 5. 21.