"IL y a deux sortes de gens, qui ne ju- | gent point sainement des afaires du monde, les ignorans, et les gens trop subtils; les uns, parce qu'ils ne savent rien, et les autres, parce qu'ils se piquent trop de savoir."AMELOT DE LA HOUSSAIE.

“LES chapeaux rouges ne sont pas pour les têtes vertes."-Ibid. But this was not allowed at Rome.

"EN une grande partie des afaires de ce monde, autant a de puissance l'opinion, que la verité même."-Ibid. vol. 5, p. 35.

Amelot says there is a book entitled Opinio Regina Orbis.

"Is God merciful and shall men be cruel? Is the master meek and mild, and shall the servant be fierce and furious? shall he give the lamb in his scutcheon, and they the lion ?"-FEATLEY. Clavis Mystica, p. 9.

"SED tantam hominis esse imperitiam et tam stupendam asinitatem (non enim possum aliter vocare) putavi nunquam.”— CASAUBON. Epist. p. 359.

"NEQUE ignorabam quam benigna materia sit, in eos dicere, quos impudentia plus quam canina, omnibus bonis reddit exosos." —Ibid. p. 434.

"MIROR esse qui, quicquid somniant, verum esse sibi persuadent: ac benè nobiscum ageretur si nec aliis persuadere vellent. Hæc doknoιoopia quam multos perdidit, et perdit quotidie."-J. SCALIGER. Epist. 10, p. 87.

says STEELE," that a little mirth and diversion are what recreate the spirits upon those occasions; but there is a kind of sorrow from which I draw a consolation that strengthens my faculties and enlarges my mind, beyond any thing that can flow from merriment."- Guardian, No. 5.

COMMON words, started into a new signification.-Ibid. No. 60.

"IF," says LIGHTFOOT, (vol. 6, p. 179) "I were to make a threefold wish, as Austin once did, I cannot tell what to wish for to more profit and advantage, than to know God as he is, the Devil as he is, and ourselves what we are."

LIGHTFOOT Says (vol. 6, p. 236), “ there is no grace, but there is a false coin minted by the Devil to dissemble it."

"HE that desires to be undone, and cares not to be prevented by God's restraining grace, shall find his ruin in the folly of his own desires, and become wretched by his own election."-J. TAYLOR, tom. 3, p. 274.

"Our of this life I can carry nothing but my good works: I will not add unto my evil ones that of vain glory. I will take heed wherein I set my heart; since the accomplishing of what I wish, may be a punishment of my desires."-Ibid. p. 437.

"CELUI qui n'a égard en écrivant qu'au goût de son siècle, songe plus à sa personne qu'àu ses écrits."—La Bruyere, vol. 1, p.

41.

"IL y a dans quelques hommes une certaine médiocrité d'esprit qui contribuë à les rendre sages."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 123.

"LES esprits capables d'envisager plusieurs choses à la fois sont raisonnables; ceux qui n'en voïent qu'une sont entêtés et opiniâtres quoiqu'ils se croïent fermes et constans."-Ibid. p. 318.

Ibid. Pigmalion.

“ — MULTIQUE in sapientiâ supercilii virum."-JUSTIN MARTYR, Baronius, vol. 2, p. 86.

"LIKE leaves on trees his bones began to shake,

And on his head each hair rose like a stake, And from his brow the sweat began to pour, Like rain from heaven, in a gentle shower."

From some verses sent me by one THOMAS LILLEY, of Birmingham, Dec. 20, 1825.

“THE wild ivy

streets,

And Patience quarrel with her shadow.”

Ibid.

"THE Devil, and

This fellow are so near, 'tis not yet known Which is the eviler angel." Ibid.

"NEITHER Our preaching, nor our praying to God are only sufficient, but withal we must do our endeavours and help each other; since for the driving away of a dog there is (as the countryman saith) some virtue in a stone, if it be conjoined with St. John's Gospel."- Parliamentary History,

named.

Ir is a good remark of Lord Waldegrave, that "the transition from pleasure to business is both shorter and easier, than from a state of total inaction."-P. 9, Memoirs.

NEWS.-"I commend it to your lordship as men do fish, for the freshness, not for certainty."-SIR THOMAS ROSE to STRAFFord, Letters, vol. 1, p. 356.

"DELAYS are wisdom, where Time may more easy ways of safety show." LORD BROOKE, p. 104.

"SELF murther is an ugly work of fear." Ibid.

"NEVER make a defence or apology before you be accused;" a rule, said Charles the First to Strafford, "that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lover." And for an author too, say I.

"STALE reversions,

Glean'd from the rags and frippery of wit." Ro. RANDOLPH, Verses prefixed to

his Brother's Poems.

"He hath faith enough to save himself, and charity enough to believe that others may be saved, who are not in all points just of his belief."-Ibid. p. 14.

PEOPLE who seem to think "they could not be saved unless they make an ugly face." -Ibid. p. 77.

"THERE are a company of men in the world who despise any thing which they understand easily, and imagine there is no great matter in it, if it be presently intelligible. They admire that most which they do not comprehend; and conceive there is some mystery and depth in it, if it be difficult to be explained."—Ibid. 146. p.

Is it not "unreasonable to imagine, that when all other things are suffered to grow to their height and utmost perfections, the spirit of man only should ever remain a dwarf, or rather continue a child, and never be unloosed from its swadling bands ?"Ibid. p. 347.

large,

As they came all to see, and to be seen."

BEN JONSON. Underwoods, vol. 9, p. 35. "EXTEND a reaching virtue."—Ibid. p. 42.

"THE ignoble never lived; they were awhile Like swine, or other cattle here on earth:

Their names are not recorded on the file Of life that fall so." Ibid. p. 41.

"IT will be a commendable thrift to spare myself the labour of that accuracy.”— PATRICK'S Parable of the Pilgrim, p. 1.

"THEY fancied themselves engaged against sin, whilst they were buffeting a contrary opinion. There was no heat, but they took it for divine, though it were of their own kindling: and so they were but all on fire, they never doubted but it was from heaven."—Ibid. p. 10.

find no employment, and hope shall receive a discharge, and charity shall be left alone in its full strength."-Ibid. p. 348.

"GOOD fellows, whom men commonly do call

Those that do live at war with truth and shame." Ibid. p. 181.

"I HAVE for books, above my head the sky, Under me earth; about me air and sea.” Ibid. p. 206.

"FALSE antidotes for vicious ignorance, Whose causes are within, and so the cure; Error corrupting nature, not mischance, For how can that be wise which is not pure." Ibid. p. 210.

"TILL the inward moulds be truly placed, All is made crooked that in them we cast." Ibid. "FROM early childhood's promising estate, Up to performing manhood."

GONDIBERT, p. 2,
Ibid.

"WAR, art's deliberate strength."

Ibid. p. 442.

The classical reader will not forget the beautiful lines in the Agam. of ÆSCHYLUS, ἔθρεψεν δὲ λεόντα, κ. τ. έ. v. 696.

J. W. W.

"RELAYS of horse, long-breathed as winter winds."

"ANIMALS

They want not the re But speech, by which we

boast."