TRUE Valour. "It is the greatest virtue, and the safety Of all mankind; the object of it is danger. A certain mean 'twixt fear and confidence. No inconsiderate rashness, or vain appetite Of false encountering formidable things, But a true science of distinguishing What's good or evil. It springs out of reason And tends to perfect honesty; the scope Is always honour, and the public good, It is no valour for a private cause." Ibid. p. 412. "FEAR to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too." Ibid. "Rosy modesty."-Ibid. p. 113. This is in Albumazar's impudent mouth, and said of himself; but for bashfulness it is the prettiest of epithets. CONDITION of man. "A baser state than what was first as- Whereon (to curb the too-aspiring The better things were lost, the worst were left behind."-PH. FLETCHER. C. 2. "THE Sun with gentle beams his rage disguises, And, like aspiring tyrants, temporises, Never to be endured, but when he falls or rises." Ibid. C. 3. "WOULD God I then had chanced this life to leave, [did give; "THE things true valour's exercised about The tomb straight taking what the womb Are poverty, restraint, captivity, "AND as all knowledge when it is removed Then always buried, changing but the grave, I had not lived to die, but died to live." LORD STERLINE. Cræsus, p. 40. "EL sol cayendo vaya A sepultarse en las ondas, Son monumentos de plata."—Ibid. 66 C'ÉTAIT l'heure où l'incertitude de la lumière rend à l'imagination son vague empire, l'heure où la réverie la remet en possession de tout ce que lui ôtait la réalité; où le présent disparaît, où l'avenir et le passé semblent sortir des ténébres."-CusTINE, vol. 2, p. 338. "THE Voice so sweet, the words so fair, BEN JONSON, vol. 9, p. 70. "ALL nobility Ibid. p. 78. OLYMPIA says of Bireno, "Io credea e credo, e creder credo il vero, Ch' amasse ed ami me con cor sincera." ARIOSTO, c. 9, st. 23. "For my life, My sorrow is I have kept it so long well, MASSINGER, Old Law, p. 472. In what an execrable feeling was this written by Montrevil. "Quand je seray tout prest d'avoir les yeux couvers De l'ombre et de l'horreur d'une nuit eternelle, Plût aux dieux devant moy voir perir l'univers! Que ma mort me sembleroit belle! J'aurois en expirant un plaisir sans pareil; Southey has here inserted with two queries -charm?-struck?-J. W. W. Et comme en me couchant je souffle ma chandelle, Je voudrois en mourant éteindre le soleil." RECUEIL, &c. vol. 4, p. 271. "MAL est gardé ce que garde la crainte." PASSERAT, &c. vol. 2, p. 111. "O THOU Soft natural death, that art joint twin [comet To sweetest slumber! no rough-bearded Stares on thy mild departure; the dull owl Beats not against thy casement; the hoarse wolf Scents not thy carrion! Pity winds thy corse, Whilst horror waits on princes." WEBSTER, Vol. 1, p. 129. "I Do love these ancient ruins ; We never tread upon them, but we set Our foot upon some reverend history, And questionless. Here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie interr'd Who loved the church so well, and gave so largely to it: [bones They thought it should have canopied their Till doomsday. But all things have their end, [like to men, Churches and cities, which have diseases Must have like death that we have." Ibid. vol. 1, p. 306. "Si non desipit auditor, a fucato sermone quid sperat aliud quam insidias? Tribus maxime persuadetur, vitâ dicentis, veritate rei, sobrietate orationis.”—Ibid. ff. p. 62. "THEY who in former times, like pipes of reeds, have sweetly sounded out the praises of God, but now are cracked with some pardonable error in judgment, or slip in manners, if they be truly bruised with the weight of their sin, and thoroughly contrite, may plead the privilege of the bruised reed in the text, not to be broken by any overhard and severe censure or sentence." FEATLEY, Clavis Mystica. p. 10. EXTRACTS, FACTS, AND OPINIONS, RELATING TO POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SOCIETY. Prospects of Society. EE CLARENDON, vol. 1, part 2, "So most men are deceived in being too reasonable; concluding that reason will prevail upon those men to submit to what is right and just, who have no other consideration of right or justice, but as it advances their interest, or complies with their humour and passion.”—Ibid. p. 1043. ONE who had hurt his foot by paring a nail to the quick, laughed on being told there was danger of a mortification, and replied, "the foot is a long way from the heart." But the mortification found its way there. bidding of dice and cards, and unlawful games unto servants and mean people, and the putting down and suppressing of alehouses, as strings of one root together, and as if the one were unprofitable without the other."-Ibid. P. 216. NATIONAL Wealth wholesome only when justly, equitably (not equally) diffused. When the workman as well as the capitalist has his fair proportion of gains and comforts. "SED jam pudet me ista refellere, cum eos non puduerit ista sentire. Cum verò ausi sint etiam defendere, non jam eorum, sed ipsius generis humani me pudet, cujus aures hæc ferre potuerunt."-ST. AUGUS TINE. THE Overflow of educated persons in both sexes,-" the condition of the one being ac BACON observes, แ it is not incredible that it should have come into the mind of such an abject fellow (as Lambert Sim-companied with more unhappiness than nell) to enterprize so great a matter, for high conceits do sometimes come streaming into the imaginations of base persons, especially when they are drunk with news and talk of the people.”—Henry VII. p. 20. BACON says that in the Statute of 19 Henry VII. against vagabonds, there may be noted "the dislike the parliament had of gaoling of them, as that which was chargeable, pesterous, and of no open example. And he notices that in all the statutes of this king there are ever coupled the punishment of vagabonds, and the for would easily be imagined, and that of the other bringing with it more danger than statesmen perhaps have yet taken into the account of the evils that are to come." "THINGS (in Scripture) manifestly and mercifully undefined."-MILLER'S B. Lec tures. "SIMPLE (The) Cobler of Aggawam in America. Willing to help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-Leather and Sole, with all the honest stitches he can take, 10s. 6d. Lond. 1647." |