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Ir is a good remark of JOHNSON's, "that | famiæ, cujus apud prodigos novissima võthe naval and military professions have the luptas est."-TACITUS. Annal. 1. xi. e. 26. dignity of danger, and that mankind reverence those who have got over fear, which is so general a weakness."

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"L'HOMME est le morceau le plus dificile à digerér qui se presente à tous les systêmes. Je ne sai si la nature peut presenter un objet plus étrange, et plus dificile a demêler à la raison toute seule que ce que nous apellons un animal raisonnable."—Bayle, p. 536-7.

"THUS has he (and many more of the same breed, that, I know, the drossy age dotes on), only got the tune of the time, and outward habit of encounter; a kind of yesty collection, which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed, opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out."-Hamlet, act v. sc. ii.

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CICERO Says of the scholars of Heraclides, quos duplò reddidit stultiores quam acceperit; ubi nihil poterant discere nisi ignorantiam."-Orat. pro Flacco.

It was a remark of SIR P. SIDNEY, "that he never found wisdom, where he found not courage."

BISHOP HACKET calls "conscience and honour the Urim and Thummim, with which the noblest whom God hath made should

your horns."-STRYPE'S Annals, vol. 1, p. 560.

"NEMO non aliquem habet cui tantum credat, quantum ipsi creditum est.”—STRADA, p. 42.

Is this true? A Jesuit is good authority on such a point.

"ETENIM Religionem rarò solam mutavere civitates: sed quoties mota est sacra hæc Anchora, toties fluctuavit simul Reipublicæ navis. Nec mirum: est Hæresis contumaciæ rudimentum : dumque ex hominum mentibus sensim excutit Dei jugum, detrectare atque excutere humana imperia similiter docet."-Ibid. p. 71.

CARDINAL GRANVILLE.

-" Pleraque feli

consult in all things.”—Life of Archbishop citer confecit eloquentiæ beneficio, sed mirâ Williams, p. 164.

"SECUNDÆ res felicem, magnum faciunt adversæ"- very well said by Hermolaus Barbarus.-Ibid. part ii. p. 4.

"A LIBERTY to be lawless is the greatest bondage."-Ibid. p. 198.

"GOD defend us from making experiments of what would come to pass if the choice of a governor or governors were referred to the thousands and millions of England! Beware a heptarchy again, beware a hecatontarchy. Things give better counsel to men, than men to things."-Ibid. p. 202.

JAMES I. said "men had a salmon-like instinct to visit the place of their breeding." -Ibid. p. 208.

"In reading the scriptures," says BISHOP CHENY," be you like the snail: which is a goodly figure. For when he feeleth a hard thing against his horns, he pulleth them in again. So do you. Read Scripture a God's name; but when you come to matters of controversy, go back again; pull in

solertiâ temperatæ, sine quâ parsimoniâ, omnis facundia importuna demum profluentia est, et morbus haud se retinentis ingenii."-Ibid. p. 77.

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"MELIUS est nonnunquam, etsi non tam benè eligas, in proposito persistere, quàm optimè eligendo postmodum variare."CARDANUS de propria Vita, p. 36.

"Quæ est excusatio laus ab eis dicitur, tam magnum putant non esse scelestum."Ibid. p. 42.

"IN some things it is much more difficult for a man, upon a very ordinary use of his judgement, to be ignorant of his duty

than to learn it; as it would be much harder for him, while he is awake, to keep his eyes always shut than open."-SOUTH, vol. 2, p.

389.

"ONE is born with a kind of lethargy and stupefaction into the world, armed with an iron body and a leaden soul against all the apprehensions of ordinary sorrow."Ibid. p. 480.

"I CANNOT see but that the itch in the ear is as bad a distemper as in any other part of the body, and perhaps worse."Ibid. p. 529.

"CERTAIN it is, that the virtues of a prince are a blessing to more than to himself and his family. They are a public seminary of blessings: they are the palladiums and the strong holds, nay, the common stock and the inheritance of the kingdom."-Ibid. p. 566.

SOUTH speaks of men whose souls serve only to keep their bodies from putrefaction. Ingelo has the same thought, the people of his Piacenza, he 66 says, suppose it was put into the body only to keep it sweet.". Bentivolio & Urania, p. 46.

THE wittiest and strongest writer in our language says, "that is not wit which consists not with wisdom."- SoUTH, vol. 3,

p. 33.

"No man shall ever come to heaven him

| self, who has not sent his heart thither before him.”—Ibid. p. 374.

WELL, indeed, does he vindicate his strong language upon the rebellion, when he asks, "Can things peculiar and unheard of be treated with the toothless generalities of a common place?"-Ibid. p. 445.

"WHAT a poor thing is preparation to be trusted to in opposition to accident. And what a pitiful defence is multitude on

one side, where omnipotence takes the other."-Ibid. vol. 4, p. 22.

"Ir is enough that God has put a man's actions into his own power, but the success of them, I am sure, he has not."-Ibid. p. 27.

"THIS we may rest upon as certain, that he is still the powerfullest preacher and the best orator, who can make himself best understood."-Ibid. p. 151.

"A LIBERTY of sin, (christen it by the name of what liberty you will) is yet one of the greatest and dreadfullest judgements which can befall any person or people, and a certain cause as well as sign of an approaching destruction."-SOUTH, vol. 4, p. 429.

"LET faction look and speak big in a tumult, and in the troubled waters of rebellion, yet I dare vouch this as a truth of certain event, and that without the spirit of prophecy, that courage assisted with law, and law executed with courage, will assuredly prevail."-Ibid. vol. 5, p. 64.

"NOTHING can be more irrational, than to be dogmatical in things doubtful; and to determine, where wise men only dispute." -Ibid. p. 243.

"POUR moi, parmi des fautes innombrables, Je n'en connois que deux considérables,

Et dont je fais ma declaration; C'est l'entreprise et l'execution. A mon avis fautes irréparables

Dans ce volume."-BENSErade,

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332.

"IL y a des occasions où il faut laisser | tunity to the virtue of patience."1—Ibid. p. dormir les Loix d'autant qu'elles sont faites pour les hommes, et non pas les hommes pour elles."-AMELOT DE LA HOUSSAIE.

A WISE remark, and of wide application: "Que les insolences d'un peuple contre ses voisins se termineront toûjours à une guerre; non seulement parce que l'homme prudent se lasse de souffrir, mais aussi parce que l'insolent se lasse d'être souffert."Ibid.

"MODERONS nos propres vœux,
Tâchons à nous mieux connoître,
Desire tu d'être heureux ?
Desire un peu moins de l'être."
DE CHARLEVAL

"Voici comment j'ai compté Dès ma plus tendre jeunesse, La vertu, puis la santé,

Puis la gloire, puis la richesse."-Ibid.

"MEN who have built their faith upon the ruins of charity, and wholly cried up one, while they sufficiently acted down the other."-SOUTH, vol. 6, p. 8.

"THAT man will one day find it but a poor gain, who hits upon truth with the loss of charity."-Ibid. p. 30.

"THE height of prudence is, in all precepts, laws, and institutions to distinguish persons, times, and occasions; and accordingly to discriminate the obligation, and upon the same exigence of justice to dispense with it in some, upon which it confirms it in others."-Ibid. p. 221.

"WHAT is absurd in the sanctions of

"How hard is it to draw a principle inte all its consequences, and to unravel the mysterious fertility but of one proposition!" -Ibid. p. 330.

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right reason, will never be warranted by the "I WENT without feet, and flew without rules of religion."-Ibid.

THE Sermon." It inevitably puts us upon an act of religion: if good, it invites us to a profitable hearing; if otherwise, it inflicts a short penance, and gives an oppor

wings."-M. Magist. vol. 2, p. 36.

"The worst speak something good. If all

want sense,

God gives a text, and preacheth patience." GEORGE HERBERT. Church Porch.-J. W. W.

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