furniture of that wisdom, and holiness, and acquaintance with GOD, which people have attained in their youth.—Baxter.

CLXXVIII.

Subtle designs are, for the most part, in the beginning, full of hopes; in the middle, full of difficulty; and in the end, full of dangers.

CLXXIX.

Great designs are like great wheels, which, if they move too fast, will fire themselves. Great, matters require slow and equal motions; it is against the nature of wisdom to be violent, and it is against the nature of violence to be

constant.

CLXXX.

Our wishes are the true touchstone of our estate; such as we wish to be we are. Worldly hearts affect worldly things; spiritual, divine. We cannot better know what we are indeed, than by what we would be.-Bishop Hall.

CLXXXI.

In an absolute woman (say the Italians) are required the parts of a Dutch woman, from the girdle downwards; of a French woman, from the girdle to the shoulders; over which must be placed an English face.

CLXXXII.

A great reader is always quoting the description of another's emotions; a strong imagination delights to paint its own. A writer of genius makes us feel, an inferior reason.Mary W. Godwin.

CLXXXIII.

Religion makes GoD our friend. When Religion is made a science, there is nothing more intricate; when it is made a duty, nothing more easy.-Bishop Wilson.

CLXXXIV.

No pleasure is innocent which hinders us from minding our salvation.-It is strange, that that which is every body's concern, should be nobody's discourse!-Ibid.

CLXXXV.

A foul tongue shews ever a rotten heart.Bishop Hall.

CLXXXVI.

Life is but a labour of patience; it is always rolling a great stone up a hill; for before a person can find a resting-place, imagining it is lodged, down it comes again, and all the work is to be done over again!

CLXXXVII.

Louis the Second, of France, was wont to say of some of his chaplains, who had great libraries but little learning, that they were like such as had crooked backs, they carried a burthen about them which they never saw in all their lives.

CLXXXVIII.

Books are more necessary in a state than arms. Arms are to defend us from the invasion of foes; books are to preserve us from the infection of errors. Enemies can but kill the body, errors endanger the soul.

CLXXXIX.

The advancement of the science of Suspended Animation is to the highest honour of the present age and reign-a science calculated not less to exercise the keenest faculties of the head, than to interest the finest feelings of the heart.*

CXC.

Libri rerum, non verborum fœcundi;-those books are best that have most worth and weight in a little bulk.

CXCI.

A man's best monument is his virtuous actions; foolish is the hope of immortality and future praise by the cost of senseless stone.

CXCII.

It is mind, and mind only, can, give real!! and lasting dignity.

* His Majesty expressed himself in terms of the highest appro bation to Dr. HAWES, the founder of the Humane Society; whose patriotic exertions will transmit his name to posterity in the most endearing point of view.

CXCIII.

Modesty is a thin transparent veil, which shews with superior lustre the graces it would seem to cover; as the new-blown rose is more beautiful when its leaves are a little folded, than when its glories are fully displayed.

CXCIV.

Religion, the doctrine of a GOD, of a Providence, and of a future state, opens an immense, a glorious, and most transporting prospect; and every man who is humbly conscious that he conforms to the will of his Maker, may enjoy and rejoice in this prospect.-Dr. Priestley.

CXCV.

Of the agreeable classes of literature, the romance has been always held the most delightful; it has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.

CXCVI.

Eternity has so often passed our lips, that it has forgot the way to our hearts; did it enter