Errors.] 2181. LAWs-Penal Less efficacious where numerous and severe. Where Laws and Punishments are in Excess, In such a State you find Laws for all Faults, But Faults increasing still-while the strong Statutes, (Too strong in ordinance, in effect too weak,) 2182. CORRUPTION. 2. Reform or Ruin must o'ertake that State In which Corruption in a baneful ferment Boils till it over-runs. .2183. LIBEL-PUBLIC. Strong Truth is oft held Slander to the State*. COMEDY OF ERRORS. 2184. DEATH as a Punishment. The Doom of Death ends Woes and all. 2185. CHILDHOOD-COMPASSION. The Ills of Childhood waken our Compassion The more as it is ignorant what to fear. 2186. PARENTS. 2. Parents oft cherish most the latter born. 2187. EYE. The Eye will follow where the Care is fixt. It is certain that the Liberty of the Press has no Enemy which more endangers it than Licentiousness. At the same time a wise and good Government will rather endure it's Licentiousness, great as the Evil of it is, than risque any injury to it's salutary Freedom; since there is such exceedingly great and urgent Danger lest in weeding up the Tares they root up the Wheat also. Still hardly any thing can be more criminal than wanton Misrepresentation or Slander - for party purposes. Indeed, very unwise and mischievous are inflammatory and exaggerated statements even of Abuses really existing and which therefore ought to be stated; but with temper and fairness. 2188. AFFLICTION-CONSOLATION. Never on Earth Calamity so great Errors.] As not to leave to us, if rightly weigh'd, What would console 'mid what we sorrow for. 2189. AFFECTION-PRUDENCE. 2. Prudence should have the Guidance of Affec Without it, by the excess of Love itself The Loss is hazarded of that we love. 2190. SINGULARITY. [tion. Some Spirits hardly ever meet their like. These in the World are as a Drop of Water Should in the Ocean seek another Drop. 2191. JEST-unseasonable. Beware of Jesting when 'tis not in season, 2192. LICENTIOUSNESS. A head-strong Liberty is lasht with Woe. 2193. ORDER universal. There's nothing situate under Heaven's eye But hath it's Bound: in Earth, in Sea, and Sky. 2194. UNKINDNESS. 2. Unkindness blunts quick Wit and wastes sweet Beauty. 2195. LOVE-COMPLIANCE. * Who would learn Love must practice to obey. 2196. WEALTH and POWER commonly exact much Observance. The rich and powerful haughtily require 2197. REASONS for every thing. Every why hath a wherefore*. * See the Passage of HUDIBRAS before cited. Errorse] 2198. HUSBAND--WIFEZAVIS The Husband is the Elm, the life the Vine. If aught possess him from her, it is dross/ Usurping Ivy, Briar, or idle Moss Դ Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion T 2199, FORBEARANCE has its limits. O Those are thought Asses who endure all wrongs. OTER With hearty welcome, makes a merry Feast *. 2201. HUSBAND—should be tender of his Wife's Honor Husbands, war not against your Reputation: Nor draw within the compass, of suspect, The' unviolated Honor of your Wives. 2202. JESTS-practicals dangerous. A silly Jest may stand in serious Cost. 2203. VICE-IMPUDENCE in it. Be not thy tongue thine own Shame's Orator. What simple Thief brags of his own Deceit? 1‛zf!!{p.f5 !z# 2204. Ill Deeds are doubled with an evil Word. 2205. TEMPTATION. * He who would not be guilty of self-wrong, a Must stop his ears against a Siren's Song: 2206. ANTICIPATION. 25 Those who do wrong oft first begin to brawl. Super omnia, Vultus + Better is a Dinner of Herbs where Love is, than a stall'd Ox and Hatred therewith. Sirenum cantus & Circes Pocula nosti. FROV 01 2207. SERVANTS Errors. 3. In all things lawful, though against his Will, † His Master's Mind a Servant must fulfill. 2208. REGRET Acknowledgement of MERIT. 4. § Few Evils lost are wail'd when they are gone. 2209. JEALOUSY-passionate Undervaluings ・an effect of it. Far from her Nest the Lapwing cries away. 2210. The Heart oft blesses where Words seem to 2211. TIME, α THIEF. [curse. Time is a Thief, and steals by Night and Day. 2212. IMAGINATION—its double Power Fancy is Comfort oft; oft Injury. 2213. CAUTION,SON 'On 15#. He that would eat with the Devil must have a long spoon. 2214. IGNORANCE of SELF. Fly Pride, says the Peacock +. 2215 HOME. fHome. Slander and Shame are oftenest found from 2216. ANGER not to be inflam'd.' ... Anger and Frenzy must in part be humour'd. 2217. QUIET and RECREATION-necessary to HEALTH. § Sweet Recreation barr'd, what does ensue, • Singula de nobis Anni furantur euntes. HOR.. + It has always been common to impute human faults and follies to other Animals. about Nothing.] 2218. DISTURBANCE—domestic. In food, in sport, and life-preserving rest, "Twould mad both Man and Beast to be disturb'd. 2219. QUESTIONS ensnaring, 2. Ensnaring Questions may betray the best To Censure and to undeserv'd Reproof. 2220. HUSBAND and WIFE 3. Husband and Wife to separate is ill. } 2221. INJURY-continued distracts. ས་ 4. Continued Wrongs may make the Wisest mad. 2222. EVIDENCE-moral grounds of doubt or disbelief in it. We are not bound to believe a Denial merely because it is made. 2223. MIND-Aberration of. Age, or extreme Danger, will too often disturb the Reasona MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. 2224. JOY-excessive; accompanied with Tears. + Such is the infirmity of our Nature, that extreme Joy can, hardly shew itself without a badge of bitterness. 2225. + In a generous H Heart Tears are an overflow of Kindness: and there are no faces truer than those that are so washt t. 2226. OPINION FASHION. O Many wear their Opinions according to the Fashion 1. • Such is still sometimes the Abuse of cross-examination, y Mollissima corda Humano Generi dare se Natura fatetur Quæ lacrymas dedit: hæc nostri pars optima sensus. JUV. Colligit et ponit temerè, et mutatur in horas. HOR. |