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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.

"Ir 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 laziness; they will rather adopt the prejudices 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:

“ μίνυνθά περ, ἔτι μάλα δήν." HOм. Il. i. 416.

"HEAR, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."-Isaiah xlii. 18.

PRINCIPLE of equality.- Voyageur Philosophique, tom. 2, p. 306.

PROPOSAL that every one on arriving at the age of twenty should be required to

choose a set of opinions for himself!! | Psalm xii. 1. 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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"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.

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"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.

1 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.

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"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.

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"For froward thoughts separate from sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour God."-Ibid. 3.

"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 :

wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore.” Ibid. 16.

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Thine, O Lord, Thou lover of souls."—Ibid. xxiv. 6.

"My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living God: When shall I come to appear before the presence of God ?"—Ibid. xlii. 2.

"BUT executing Thy judgments upon them by little and little, Thou gavest them place for repentance."-Wisdom xii. 10.

"Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, Thou hast tormented them with their own abominations."-Ibid. 23.

"If any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know."-1 Corinthians viii. 2.

"Now the end of the commandment is charity; out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.". 1 Timothy i. 5.

"FOR we which have believed, do enter into rest."-Hebrews iv. 3.

"THE kingdom of God cometh not with observation. Neither shall they say, Lo

"Yea, to know Thy power is the root of here! or Lo there! for behold the kingdom immortality."-Ibid. xiv. 3.

"His heart is ashes; his hope is more vile than earth, and his life of less value than clay :

"Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, and Him that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit."—Ibid.

10-11.

"But they counted our life a pastime, and our time here a market for gain; for, say they, we must be getting every way, though

it be by evil means."-Ibid. 12.

"MYSTERIES are revealed unto the meek." -Ecclesiasticus iii. 19.

of God is within you."-Luke xvii. 21-2. Into that kingdom he who will, may enter; and begin his Heaven on earth.

"JESUS said unto them, if ye were blind, ye should have no sin: But now ye say, We see therefore your sin remaineth."John ix. last verse.

"AND now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

"To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes which I command thee this

"Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that day, for thy good?"—Deuteronomy x. 12-13.

are above thy strength.

"But what is commanded thee, think thereupon with reverence."-Ibid. 21.

"A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the

last, and he that loveth danger shall perish

therein."-Ibid. 26.

“In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy for the plant of wickedness hath taken root in him."-Ibid. 28.

"He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom."-Ibid. xxi. 11.

"LET not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck: write them upon the table of thine heart."-Proverbs iii. 3.

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