metaphor, and every ornament that can render a dif courfe entertaining, winning, striking, and enforcing. Baillie.

3. I am perfuaded, that neither death, nor life; nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers; nor things prefent, nor things to come; nor height, nor depth; nor any other creature; fhall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord. St Paul.

4. Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profefs, to perform and make good what we promife, and really to be what we would feem and appear to be. Tillotson.

5. No bleffing of life is any way comparable to the enjoyment of a difcreet and virtuous friend, it eafes and unloads the mind, clears and improves the understanding, engenders thoughts and knowledge, animates virtue and good refolutions, fooths and allays the paffions, and finds employment for molt of the vacant hours of life. Spectator.

6. The brightness of the fky, the lengthening of the days, the increafing verdure of the spring, the arrival of any little piece of good news, or whatever carries with it the moft diftant glimpfe of joy, is frequently the parent of a focial and happy converfation. World.

7. In fair weather, when my heart is cheered, and I feel that exaltation of fpirits which refults from light and warmth joined with a beautiful profpect of nature, I regard myfelf as one placed by the hand of God in the midit of an ample theatre, in which the fun, moon, and tars, the fruits alfo and vegetables of the earth, perpetuully changing their pofitions or their afpects, exhibit an elegant entertainment to the understanding, as well as to the eye. Thunder and lightning, rain and hail, the painted bow, and the glaring comets, are decorations of this mighty theatre; and the fable hemifphere, ftudded with fpangles, the blue vault at noon, the glorious gildings and rich colours in the horizon, 1 look on as fo many fucceffive fcenes. Spectator. 8. Complaifance renders a fuperiour amiable, an equal

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agreeable, and an inferiour acceptable. It fmooths diftinetion, fweetens converfation, and makes every one in the company pleafed with himfelf. It produces good-nature and mutual benevolence, encourages the timorous, fooths the turbulent, humanizes the fierce, and distinguishes a fociety of civilized perfons from a confufion of favages. In a word, complaifance is a virtue that blends all orders of men together in a friendly intercourfe of words and actions, and is fuited to that equality in human nature which every one ought to confider fo far as is confiftent with the order and œconomy of the world. Guardian,

9. It is owing to our having early imbibed falfe notions of virtue, that the word Chriftian does not carry with it, at firft view, all that is great, worthy, friend ly, generous, and heroic. The man who fufpends his hopes of the reward of worthy actions till after death; who can bestow, unfeen; who can overlook hatred ; do good to his flanderer; who can never be angry at his friend, never revengeful to his enemy,-is certainly formed for the benefit of fociety. : Spectator.

10. Though we feem grieved at the fhortnefs of life in general, we are wifhing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be of age; then to be a man of business; then to make up an eftate; then to arrive at honours; then to retire. The ufurer would be very well fatisfied, to have all the time annihilated that lies between the prefent moment and the next quarter-day; the politician would be contented to lose three years in his life, could he place things in the pofture which he fancies they will ftand in after fuch a revolution of time; and the lover would be glad to strike out of his existence, all the moments that are to pass away before the happy meeting.

11. Should the greater part of people fit down and draw up a particular account of their time, what a flameful bill would it be ! So much in eating, drinking, and fleeping, beyond what nature requires; fo much in revelling and wantonnefs; fo much for the recovery of last night's intemperance; fo much in gaming, plays, and mafquerades; fo much in paying and receiving formal and impertinent vifits; fo much in idle and foolish prating,

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prating, in cenfuring and reviling of our neighbours; fo much in dreffing out our bodies and in talking of fafhions; and so much wafted and loft in doing nothing at all. Sherlock.

12. If we would have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies. He who cannot perfuade himself to withdraw from fociety, must be content to pay a tribute of his time to a multitude of tyrants :-to the loiterer, who makes appointments he never keeps to the confulter, who afks advice which he never takes-to the boaster, who blufters only to be praifed-to the complainer, who whines only to be pitied-to the projector, whofe happinefs is to entertain his friends with expectations which all but himself know to be vain to the economist, who tells of bargains and fettlements-to the politician, who predicts the confequence of deaths, battles, and alliances -to the ufurer, who compares the state of the different funds-and to the talker, who talks only because he loves to be talking. Johnson.

13. Charity fuffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up ; doth not behave itself unfeemly; feeketh not her own; is not easily provoked; thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. St Paul.

14. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to fhoot,
To pour the fresh inftruction o'er the mind,
To breathe the enlivening fpirit, and to fix
The generous purpofe in the glowing breaft.

Thomson.

5. Dread o'er the feene the ghost of Hamlet stalks ; Othello rages; poor Monimia mourns;

And Belvidera pours her foul in love.

Terrour alarms the breaft: the comely tear

Steals o'er the cheek. Or elfe the comic mufe

Holds to the world a picture of itself,

And raifes, fly, the fair impartial laugh.

Sometimes, the lifts her ftrain, and paints the fcenes
Of beauteous life; whate'er can deck mankind,

Or charm the heart in generous Bevil fhow'd. Thomson.

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16. Then Commerce brought into the public walk
The bufy merchant; the big warehouse built;
Rais'd the ftrong crane; choak'd up the loaded street
With foreign plenty; and thy ftream, O Thames,
Large, gentle, deep, majestic, king of floods!
Chofe for his grand refort. On either hand,
Like a long wintry foreft, groves of mafts
Shot up their fpires; the bellying fheet between
Poffefs'd the breezy void; the footy hulk
Steer'd fluggish on; the fplendid barge along
Rowed, regular, to harmony; around,

The boat, light-fkimming, ftretch'd its oary wings;
While deep, the various voice of fervent toil

From bank to bank increas'd; whence, ribb'd with oak,
To bear the British thunder, black and bold,

The roaring veffel rufh'd into the main.

Thomson

17. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn:

A faint in crape is twice a faint in lawn.

A judge is juft: a chancellor, jufter still:

A gownman, learn'd: a bifhop-what you will:
Wife, if a minifter: but, if a king,

More wife, more learn'd, more just, more every thing.

18. 'Tis education forms the common mind:
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin❜d.
Boaftful and rough, your first son is a fquire;
The next a tradesman, meek, and much a liar :
Tom ftruts a foldier, open, bold, and brave;
Will fheaks a feriv'ner, an exceeding knave. ẹo
Is he a churchman? then he's fond of power;
A quaker? fly; a prefbyterian? four ;
A fmart freethinker? all things in an hour.

19. See what a grace was feated on this brow;
Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself;
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command;
A station like the herald Mercury
New-lighted on a heav'n-kiffing hill;
A combination, and a form indeed,
Where every god did feem to fet his feal,
To give the world affurance of a man.

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20. The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The folemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, fhall diffolve;
And, like the bafelef's fabric of a vision,
Leave not a wreck behind.

Shakespeare.

III. Examples of SUSPENSION; or a delaying of the Senfe.

1. AS beauty of perfon, with an agreeable carriage, pleases the eye, and that pleafure confifts in obferving that all the parts have a certain elegance, and are proportioned to each other; fo does decency of be haviour obtain the approbation of all with whom we converfe, from the order, confiftency, and moderation of our words and actions. Spectator.

2. If Pericles, as hiftorians report, could shake the firmest resolutions of his hearers, and fet the paffions of all Greece in a ferment, when the public welfare of his coun try, or the fear of hoftile invafions, was the subject; what may we not expect from that orator, who, with a becoming energy, warns his audience against thofe evils which have no remedy, when once undergone, either from prudence or tine?. Spectator.

3. Though there is a great deal of pleasure in contemplating the material world, by which I mean that system of bodies into which nature has fo curiously wrought the mafs of dead matter, with the feveral relations which those bodies bear to one another; there is still fomething more wonderful and furprifing in contemplating the world of life, or those various animals with which every part of the univerfe is furnished. Spectator.

4. Since it is certain that our hearts deceive us in the love of the world, and that we cannot command ourselves enough to refign it, though we every day with ourselves difengaged from its allurements; let us not ftand upon a formal taking of leave, but wean ourselves from them,. while we are in the midft of them.. Spectator.

5. When a man has got fuch a great and exalted foul, as that he can look upon life and death, riches and po