there, would it not extinguish every earth-borir passion in them? Yes! as the sun the smallest spark of fire.-Dr. Young.

CXCVII.

You may be a good man and a happy man without nobility, without learning, without eloquence; but you cannot be either without religion. Dr. V. Knox.

CXCVIII.

The nature and essence of eloquence consist in determining immediately the wills of an audience. It employs for this purpose argument, which convinces the understanding; imagery, which strikes and pleases the imagination; and sentiments, which move and touch the heart.

CXCIX.

Humility and love, whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, constitute the essence of true religion. The humble are formed to adore; the loving to associate with eternal love.

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I never had a sight of my soul, (said the Emperor AURELIUS) and yet I have a great value for it, because it is discoverable by its operations; and by my constant experience of the power of GOD, I have a proof of his being, and a reason for my veneration.

CCI.

Infidelity is a rank weed; it is nurtured by our vices, and cannot be plucked up as easily as it may be planted..

CCII.

The great JOHN LOCK said of the Testament," It has GOD for its author, salvation. for its end, and truth without any mixture of error for its matter.""

CCIII..

GOD is a spirit, the soul of man is a spirit, and the perfection of the soul of man is its union with the DEITY, the pure fountain of all that is GOOD and BEAUTIFUL.-Dr. Knox on the Sacrament, 1799.

CCIV.

Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living.-Goldsmith.

CCV.

Agriculture is the art of nature, and Fire her primary agent.* From experience we are assured, that men have acquired by this element, and of this art, an intelligence, of which all their other combinations are merely consequences; our sciences and arts are principally derived from these two sources.

CCVI.

HISTORY, which constitutes a material branch of education, assumes the greatest dignity of character when she becomes the companion of RELIGION, and the interpreter of the oracles of GOD.-Rev. H. Kett on the Prophecies, 1799.

On the important subject of Heat, consult Count RUMFORD'S Essays, 8vo. 1798. Indeed every young person should pay attention to the writings of this philosopher, as well to the subject of Agriculture, which is of the utmost consequence as to individual comfort, and to our prosperity as a nation.

CCVII.

Liberty is the essence of parliamentary disquisitions; Liberty is the parent of Truth.Speech of Sir J. Barnard, 1740.

CCVIII.

Passions are the gales of life; and it is our part to take care they do not rise into a tempest.

CCIX.

Those are but shallow politicians which do not comprehend sound morals; and the consequences of the moral characters of men reach into the unseen world.-Burgh's Pol. Dis.

CCX.

Ridicule is not the test of truth, because truth must always be the test of ridicule.Bishop Horne's Letters on Infidelity, 1786.

CCXI.

The certainty of revelation has been variously, as well as repeatedly, proved. It is not the defect in proof, but the want of investigation, that produces infidelity.-Kett.

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CCXII.

SHAFTESBURY carries the point so far as to set up (very erroneously in my opinion, says BURGH) ridicule for a test of truth, instead of truth for a test of ridicule. Even the inspired writers have not disdained the use of ridicule; vide 1 Kings viii. 27.

CCXIII.

Nature has arranged what we do know, with such consummate wisdom, that we are bound to give her credit for the same character of wisdom, in cases where we cannot find her out unto perfection. We are not to accuse, merely because we are deficient in mental ability.

CCXIV.

TULLY, the Heathen philosopher, had but a faint glimpse of the country towards which we are all travelling; yet so pleasing was any the most imperfect and shadowy prospect into futurity, that he declared no man should ravish it from him. Vide De Senectute, ad fin.