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“QUOIQU'ON en dise, l'imagination sert à | long volumes of antiquity, if we would be voir beaucoup de choses très-réelles.” F. R. Bibliothèque Universelle. Mai 1830. p. 84.

"L'ANGLETERRE avec son orgueil, sa population, ses richesses, ses prejugés, et ses cérémonies, est le Japon de l'Europe."M. de Custine, vol. 2, p. 189.

diligent to mark them, so that they can be compared to nothing fitter, than to a wheel ever turning in the same motion."-Ibid. p. 9.

"WHATEVER occurrences seem strange, they are but the same fable acted by other persons, and nothing different from those of older times but in the names of the ac

OAFBOROUGH, Rascalburgh, and Rabble- tors."-Ibid. p. 8.

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"THE public mind," says SIR E. BRYDGES, thereby intimating that solitude was the " is as servile as it is capricious."-Recollec- best opportunity of religion.”—Ibid. p. 163. tions, vol. 1, p. 163.

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"THERE are monstrosities in the soul as well as the body."-Ibid. p. 224.

"It is well observed by PLUTARCH, 'that men of desperate and bankrupt fortunes have little regard to their expenses, because should they save them, the tide of their estates won't rise much the higher, and so they think it impertinent to be frugal, when there's no hope of being rich. Yet they that see their heaps begin to swell, and that they are within the neighbourhood of wealth, think it worth while to be saving, and improve their growing stock."-NORRIS, Miscell. p. 268.

LEVELLERS. It is not thus that "every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low; that the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain."—Isaiah xi. 4.

"Ir is not to be conceived how many people, capable of reasoning, if they would, live and die in a thousand errors from lazi

"AND Friendship like an old acquaintance ness; they will rather adopt the prejudices

sends

To his friend Justice, that she should be mild

And look with eyes of mercy on your fault."

GOFFE'S Orestes, p. 237.

NORRIS'S Miss. p. 158.-The atheistic argument from the self-sufficiency of God, -to which that from his goodness is a conclusive answer.-P. 320.

"CERTAINLY," says NORRIS (ibid. p. 160), "there is more required to qualify a man for his own company than for other men's." It is not " every man that has sense and thoughts enough to be his own companion."

"THE ancients chose to build their altars and temples in groves and solitary recesses,

of others than give themselves the trouble of forming opinions of their own. They say things at first because other people have said them, and then persist in them because they have said them themselves.”—CHESTERFIELD, vol. 1, p. 335.

SPEECHES or things which one wishes to be:

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choose a set of opinions for himself!!Ibid. p. 370.

"WHEN youth made me sanguine," says HORACE WALPOLE, "I hoped mankind might be set right. Now that I am very old, I sit down with this lazy maxim, that unless one could cure men of being fools, it is to no purpose to cure them of any folly; as it is only making room for some other."-PINKERTON's Correspondence, vol. 1, p. 91.

"SELF-INTEREST is thought to govern every man; yet is it possible to be less governed by self-interest than men are in the aggregate."-H. W. ibid.

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Psalm xii. 1.

"SAVE me, Jehovah, for the pious are coming to an end,

For the faithful are failing from among the children of men."

WITHIN eye-shot or tongue-reach.

"It was an ancient rule of the civilians, that nobility is annulled by poverty.”— FOSBROOKE's Berkeley Family, p. 162.

"MISTAKE me not, I have a new soul in me Made of a north wind, nothing now but tempest;

And like a tempest shall it make all ruin
Till I have run my will out."

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, Woman's
Prize, p. 178.

"IT grieves me

To see a mighty king with all his glory Sunk o'the sudden to the bottom of a dungeon.

Whither should we descend that are poor rascals

If we had our deserts ?"

Ibid. Island Princess, p. 288.

"Hrs vines as fruitful as experience (Which in the art of husbandry) could make."

Ibid. Noble Gentleman, p. 386.

"HE carries it So truly to the life, as if he were One of the plot to gull himself.” Ibid. p. 397.

"I ALWAYS maintained," says GRAY, "that nobody has occasion for pride but the poor; and that every where else it is a sign of folly."—Vol. 2, p. 239.

"MEN are very prone to believe what they do not understand; and they will believe any thing at all, provided they are under no obligation to believe it.”— Ibid. p. 313.

"Do not you think a man may be therà Koiva kaivūs, nova communiter, et communia noviter."-Ibid. p. 31.

wiser (I had almost said the better) for going a hundred or two of miles; and that the mind has more room in it than most people seem to think, if you will but furnish the apartments."-Ibid. p. 321.

GREG. NAZIANZEN calls S. Basil "oφήτης το Πνεύματος,” an interpreter of the Spirit. Hypophet as distinguished from prophet.

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THUS it is that "ceux qui ont esté bestes par excellence, ont reputé tout le monde sot, excepté eux-mesmes."-Ibid. p. 57.

THE band of Condottieri in Parliament. I thank Sir Richard Vyvyan for the word.

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"TAKE

TEXTS FOR SERMONS.'

AKE heed, therefore, how ye hear."
-LUKE viii, 18.

"Behold, the kingdom of God is within you."-Ibid. xvii. 21.

"YE that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and go not aside, lest ye fall."— Ecclesiasticus, ii. 7.

"Ye that fear the Lord, believe him, and your reward shall not fail."-Ibid. 8.

"Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy."-Ibid. 9. "Thy sins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm weather."-Ibid. iii. 15.

"Bind not one sin upon another; for in one thou shalt not be unpunished.”—Ibid.

vii. 8.

These texts for sermons, most of them, were written very early, they occur at the end of a Note Book for 1799. The last text of all is in dark fresh ink, and evidently shows the consolation derived by the lamented SOUTHEY from his every day study of the Bible.-J. W. W.

"My son, glorify thy soul in meekness." -Ibid. x. 28.

"Before man is life and death, and whether him liketh, shall be given him.”—Ibid. xv. 17.

"BE not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil."-Proverbs iii. 7.

"In every good work, trust thy own soul: for this is the keeping of the commandments."-Ecclesiasticus xxxii. 22.

"Whoso feareth the Lord, shall not fear nor be afraid, for He is his hope."-Ibid. xxxiv. 14.

"BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you; which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand."1 Cor. xv. 1.

"By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."-Ibid. 2.

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"And incorruption maketh us near unto God.

"Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.

"If your delight be then in thrones and

"For froward thoughts separate from sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour God."-Ibid. 3. wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore." Ibid. 16.

"Seek not death in the error of your life; and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.

"For God made not death; neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. "For he created all things that they might have their being; and the generations of the world were healthful, and there is no poison of destruction in them.

"But ungodly men with their words and works called it to them."-Ibid. xii. 6.

"Wisdom is easily seen of them that love her: whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail; for he shall find her sitting at his doors."—Ibid. vi. 12-14.

"She goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her. Sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.

"For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline, and the care of discipline is love:

"And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption :

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