Venice.] Mislike not Men for their Complexion. 2429. MARRIAGE--CHOICE in it. ¶ Avoid in Marriage being solely led **** By the unsafe direction of the Eye. 2430. TRUTH. Truth will come to light. 2431. MURTHER. Murther can not be hid long. 2432. CHILDREN. Nor Vice nor Virtue are inherited: 3 And many who are Children of the Blood Are not so of the Manners. 2433. TASTE and FANCY. Matters of Taste and Fancy not well order'd 2434. SECURITY. "Fast bind; fast find:" A Proverb never stale in thriify Mind. 2435. LOVERS. Lovers ever run before the Clock. 2436. NOVELTY. ,, I Who riseth from a Feast With that keen Appetite that he sits down? Where is the Horse that doth untread again His tedious measure with the unbated fire That he did pace them first? All things that are Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd". *This is true of every thing but the Pursuit of Virthe and Wisdom. 7 Venice.] 2437. CHANGE. f How like a Youngster, or a Prodigal, The skarfed Bark puts from her native Bay, t མ། Love is blind and Lovers can not seed baê The pretty Follies that theirselves commit. 2439. EXCELLENCE-female. Wise, fair, and true, contains all Properties, To be enthroned in a constant Soul. 2440. DANGER-should be incurred on adequate MOTIVES.% Men that hazard all, Do it in hope of fair Advantages, 2441. MIND as that, so it's TREASURE. A golden Mind stoops not to shows of Dross. 2442. DIFFIDENCE should not be excessive. ¶ Men should not so far fear their own deserving, As to a weak disabling of theniselves. 2443. APPEARANCES-fulse. usi "All that glistens is not Gold Gilded Tombs do Worms enfold. mor 2444. BUSINESS. Slubber not Business. 2445. AMUSEMENT. "Tis fit embraced Heaviness be lightened With some Delight or other. 2446. OPINION-popular. + What many Men desire is often worthless: For the weak Multitude chooses by shew, * Ornamented with skarfs and colours. Bb Venice.] Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, 2447. "Twere fit that none Were honourable without the stamp of Merit à 2448. JUDGEMENT-dispassionate. To offend and judge are distinct offices, 2449. PREJUDICES National; an insult to our common NATURE. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands? organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions. Fed with the same food; beat with the same weapons; subject to the same diseases; heal'd by the same means; warm'd and cool'd by the same winter and summer as a Christian is. If you tickle him, does he not laugh? If you prick him, does he not bleed; if you poison him, does he not die? And if you wrong him, do you wonder if he revenges? 2450. LAW-chargeable. The Thief gone with so much; and so much to find the Thief. 2451. IMPATIENCE. * Impatience under Afflictions behaves as if there were no Sighs but of it's own breathing; no Tears but of it's shedding; no Calamity but what lights on it's shoulders. 2452. HATE-LOVE. Hate counsels not in quality of Love. Venice.] 2453. MODESTY-maiden A Maiden has no tongue but thought. 2454. PERJURY. Virtue for no Reward will ever yield To be forsworn. 2455. MISTRUST. 2. t. Mistrust is Treason 'gainst the state of Love,> Against his Peace, his Crown, and Dignity. 2456. TORTURE. § Upon the Rack * Enforced Men have spoken any thing. 2457. FANCY. Soft Fancy is engender'd in the eyes; 2458. VICE imitates VIRTUE. There scarce is Vice so simple but assumes That do converse and waste the Time together, Of Lineaments, of Manners, and of Spirit. How every Fool can play upon a Word! Those who have least Wit to shew, are impatient to shew their whole Wealth of Wit in an instant. * And yet we owe so late as near the End of the 18th Century, the final Abolition of Torture, to MONTESQUIEU, BECCARIA, and Louis XVI. Fallet enim Vitium spécie Virtutis & Umbrâ. HOR. Venice. 2462. MISCONSTRUCTION-affected. C There is neither Wit nor Good Manners in seeming not to understand a plain Man in his plain Meaning. 2463. WORDS. § There are those who foolishly for the Word defy the Matter. 2464, FORTITUDE. 2. The Dignity of Fortitude opposes The worst extreme of Tyranny and Rage. Affection, Mistress of Passion, sways it to the Mood 2466. HATE- accumulated RESENTMENT. § How should Men hope for Mercy, shewing none? 2468. JUSTICE BENEVOLENCE. To the Question-What Judgement shall they dread who do no Wrong? the Answer is, Much; if they do no Good, and have no Benevolence. 2469. We do pray for Mercy, And that same Prayer doth teach us all to render The Deeds of Mercy. 2470. CADUCITY. The weakest kind of Fruit Drops soonest to the Ground.. 2471. POWER JUDICIAL-must be fixt. · No Power Judicial, in a settled State, Can alter a Decree established: |