CHARACTERISTICS OF.

KEENNESS of.

here;

She has tied

Ingratitude, my lord, is a nail which driven into the tree of courtesy, causes it to Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture wither; it is a broken channel, by which the foundations of the affections are undermined; and a lump of soot, which falling into the dish of friendship, destroys its scent and flavour. Basil.

THE WORST OF CRIMES.

If there be a crime

Of deeper dye than all the guilty train Of human vices, 'tis ingratitude.

DETESTATION OF.

Brooke.

South.

Look'd black upon me; struck me with
her tongue,

More serpent-like, upon the very heart.
Shakespeare.

To be strangled in the birth; not to be cher-
ished.
Massinger.
CRUSHING POWER OF.

There is not one vice incident to the mind of man against which the world has raised such a loud and universal outcry as against I could stand upright ingratitude. Against the tyranny of age and fortune; Nothing more detestable does the earth But the sad weight of such ingratitude produce than an ungrateful man. Will crush me into earth. PUBLIC.

Ausonius.

Denham.

Shakespeare.

FORGIVENESS OF.

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend;
More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a

child

Donne.

Injuries accompanied by insults are never forgiven, all men on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. PUNISHMENT OF.

Colton.

SLIGHTING of.

INNOCENCE.

Slight sma.linjuries and they will become A SACRED AMUlet.

And trouble me; now nothing can do that

O, innocence, the sacred amulet,
'Gainst all the poisons of infirmity,
Of all misfortunes, injury and death!
Chapman.

To him that's truly valiant. He that is af- THE ARMOR of. fected

With the least injury, is less than it.

(SELF) TO BE Avoided.

Johnson.

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage; people may be amused, and laugh at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought up against him upon some subsequent occasion.

CAUSES OF.

INJUSTICE.

Johnson.

I am arm'd with innocence,
Less penetrable than the steel-ribb'd coats
That harness round thy warrior.
THE ASSOCIATE OF BEAUTY.

Madden.

The noble sisters are immortal; their lofty forms are unchangeable, and their countenances are still radiant with the lights of Paradise. Novalis. CONSCIOUS.

Against the head which innocence secures,
Insidious malice aims her dart in vain;
Turn'd backwards by the powerful breath
of heav'n.
Johnson.

Injustice arises either from precipitation or indolence, or from a mixture of both. I hope no other hope; who bears a spotless The rapid and the slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long. Lavater.

breast,

Doth want no comfort else, howe'er distrest.
Danborne.

I thank the Gods, no secret thoughts re-
proach me.

No; I dare challenge Heaven to turn me outward,

And shake my soul quite empty in their
sight,

A general fierceness dwells with innocence
And conscious virtue is allow'd some pride.
Dryden.

True, conscious honour, is to feel no sin;
He's armed without that's innocent within:
Be this thy screen, and this thy wall of
brass.
Horace.
COURAGE OF.

There is no courage, but in innocence,
No constancy, but in an honest cause.
Southern.
DEATH OF.

How the innocent,
As in a gentle slumber, pass away!
But to cut off the knotty thread of life
In guilty men, must force stern Atropos
To use her sharp knife often. Massinger
FEARLESSNESS OF.

Unstain'd thoughts do seldom dream on
evil,

Birds never limed, no secret bushes fear.
Shakespear..
Misfortune may benight the wicked; she
Who knows no guilts, can sink beneath no
Habbington.

fear.

POWER OF.
Innocence shall make
False accusation blush, and tyranny
Tremble at patience.

Her graceful innocence, her ev'ry air
Of gesture, or least action, overawed
His malice.

Ibid.

POWER OF.

In the nice bee what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extract the healing
dew?
Pope.

By a divine instinct, men's minds distrust
Ensuing danger; as by proof we see
The waters swell before a boisterous storm.
Shakespeare.

GIVEN BY PROVIDENCE.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent. Newton.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon. Ray.

INSTINCT AND REASON.
Reason raise o'er instinct as you can,
In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
Pope.
Improvable reason is the distinction be-
tween man and the animal.
Binney.

BITTERNESS OF.

INSULT.

Milton.
What a power there is in innocence!
whose very helplessness is its safeguard;
in whose presence even passion himself
stands abashed, and turns worshipper at
the very altar he came to despoil. Moore.
UNSUSPECTING.
They that know no evil will suspect none. Baffling Power OF.

Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest;
Fate never wounds more deep the generous
heart,

Ben Jonson.
Innocence is always unsuspicious.

SPIRIT OF.

Haliburton.

INNOVATION.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors. Burke.

INSTINCT.

DEFINITIONS OF.

An instinct is a propensity prior to experience and independent of instruction.

Paley. An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action leads. Whateley. An instinct is an agent which performs bundly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

Than when a blockhead's insult points the
Dr. Johnson.

dart.

INTEGRITY.

Nothing more completely baffies one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another. Colton.

THE.

INTELLECT.

The term intellect includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain and extend our knowledge, as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, etc. Fleming. DEVELOPMEnt of.

Times of general calamnity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thun. derbolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Colton.

NO LIMIT TO.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side Sir W. Hamilton. of the grave.

Bacon.

lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the He that shoots best may sometimes miss

I hope when you know the worst you You have displaced the mirth, broke the will at once leap into the river and swim

They have been at a great feast of lanShakespeare.guages and stolen the scraps. Shakespeare.

With hateful thoughts to languish and to DANGERS OF.
pine,

And feed itself with self-consuming smart;
Of all the passions in the mind thou vilest
Spenser.