66 THE worst malison that can be pronounced against one of an uncharitable, envious, malicious, spiteful mind, is"Let him be still himself, and let him live." Ibid. THE brewers have a society for the protection of casks. Ir the argument presses you with a peine fort et dure, you have brought it upon your self. Ανάγκη πότε χρόνῳ ἐκ τῶν ψευδῶς ἀγαθῶν ἀληθὲς ἐκβῆναι κακόν." JACKSON, Vol. 2, p. 318. But whether by the great philosopher, whom he quotes, Aristotle or Plato' be meant, I am not certain, probably the former. "As passengers of good respect would often pass by unregarded of poor cottagers, did not ill-nurtured curs notify their approach by barking; so many divine mysteries would be less observed than they are, did not profane objectors become our remembrancers."-JACKSON, vol. 2, p. 410. La Bruyere, (vol. 1, p. 40), says truly, that there is a sort of criticism which corrupts both the writer and the readers. JACKSON says, that " to distinguish feigned or counterfeit from true experimental affections, is the most easy and most certain kind of criticism.”—(Vol. 1, p. 22.) True; for men who have the faculty of discernment. But there is nothing in which common readers and common critics are more frequently deceived. "NOR is it when bad things agree Thought union, but conspiracy." KATHERINE PHILIPS. I have not found the passage in Aristotle, whom I have searched by the Index. The argument, and the words nearly, I have found in the Philebus of PLATO, ii. 40. Ed. Priestley à Bekker, vol. v. p. 521. As Jackson makes no reference he probably quoted memoriter. J. W. W. THE gunpowder heroes,-the pious and persecuted Percy, calumniated Catesby, intrepid Tresham, and glorious Grey; base Bates; the excellent and elevated Sir Everard. Best speaks of his family as illustrated by the name of Sir Everard, and the plot as ministerial. Even if it had been so, Sir Everard was not the less a traitor. "THE presumed absolute infallibility of the visible Romish church for the time being, doth lay a necessity upon their successors of freezing in the dregs of their predecessors' errors."-DR. J. JACKSON, vol. 3, p. 187. In that story of the Frison chief, (Ro- "THE fear of the Lord is the beginning chardus, LIGHTFOOT calls him), who having of wisdom;' but calling it the beginning, his foot in the Baptistery, asked whether his implies that we ought to proceed farther, unbaptized forefathers were gone to heaven-namely, from his fear to his love." or hell; and being told by the bishop, that most certainly they were gone to hell, withdrew his foot, and saying, then I will go the same way with them, refused to be baptized,—I am more inclined to compassionate the error of the bishop than of the barbarian. OLD truths will be again acknowledged, and exploded principles re-established. It will be in philosophy as in geography since we have re-discovered Baffin's Bay. "ROUGE au soir, blanc au matin, CONSTANT alliance of the Popes with any conquering dynasty noted by THIERRY. "When thou sawest a thief thou consentedst unto him." And this from Phocas and Charlemagne down to Buonaparte. "I WILL reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done."Psalm 1. 21. PALEY. Sermon 2. WORSE Sins than idolatry, when men walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart.-Jeremiah xvi. 11-12. AND above all things well and thoroughly consider the horrors of the Mass,-for the sake of which idol God in justice might have drowned and destroyed the universal world.-Coll. Mensalia, p. 288. "WHO dips with the devil, he had need have a long spoon."-Apius and Virginia. Jacula Prudentum. HE that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace. The gentle hawk half mans herself. Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of. Think of ease, but work on. 1 A common proverb. So in the Comedy of Errors, "Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil."-Act iv. sc. iii. J. W. W. 66 "I MUST tell you," says Strafford to Lord Cottington, a sow's ears may prove good souce, albeit no silken purse: and the proverb is such as any king in Christendom must be pleased withal, the expression being so significant, and yet withal so quaint, and so little vulgar. Look you, put it among those of Spain, which you brag so much of, for in the whole catalogue you have not one so poignant and pressing."-STRAFFORD'S Letters, vol. 1, p. 163. GUIBERT, Abbas de Pignoribus Sanctorum in Dacherius. CHURCH of England. "We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully: but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God."-2 Corinth. iv. 2. In the patriarchal and earlier age, though men were so much nearer their origin that the intercourse with spiritual beings was open, yet they were incapable of conceiving any but a personal and visible Deity. FULLER (Pisgah Sight, p. 394), speaking of the fire from heaven which consumed FEW of our present unbelievers retain any natural religion: they verify our Saviour's Elijah's sacrifice, says in an odd parenthe-words, "He that hateth me, hateth my sis, "God employs no slugs on his errands." Yet the slow causes of destruction which work in performance of the Almighty will, are as sure and more numerous than the swift ones. Ibid. p. 403-4. SACRILEGE. No such sin in their days! well answered. MEN rendered so impotent by their false philosophy, even more than by their natural corruption, that they are not sufficient "to think a good thing, not able to understand Father also," (John xv. 23.) and are thus living witnesses, how well he knew what is in the heart of man. “IL y a certains moyens qui, par cela même qu'ils sont fort propres à faire la moitiè de l'œuvre, sont incapables de la faire toute."-BAYLE, Dict. vol. 1, p. 277. THE Jews dedicated their houses. Deuter. xx. 5. THEY who set aside the consideration of a good thing, nor to comprehend the light religion in political matters, act like a phywhen it shines upon them."-BP. REYNOLDS, vol. 1, p. 209. SOME in the prospect of death, have the galling anticipation of what others will gain by it, and rejoice therefrom: some the pain ful one of what others will lose. MEN may more easily persuade against their inclination, as well as their judgment, to do what is foolish, absurd, imprudent, dangerous, and even sinful, than to what is right, if inclination to the right is wanting. THE author who draws upon the firm of envy, hatred, malice, and uncharitableness, is always sure that his bills will be accepted there. sician who, in the treatment of his patients, should disregard all affections of the mind. SOCIETY, or rather government, is like a road; the best require to be constantly kept in order; else nothing can be worse than the decayed and broken state of that which has been most firmly constructed. "IL est de l'utilité publique que certaines gens soient obligés de s'écrier," "Eheu, Quam temerè in nosmet legem sancimus unquam."-Horace, sat. 3, 1. 1, v. 67. BAYLE, vol. 3, p. 331. NICIUS ERYTHREUS says there is a pro |