3899. PRUDENCE. Go to school to the Ant, and learn that there. is no laboring in Winter*. 3900. ILLNESS-a fair Excuse for Neglects. Infirmity doth still neglect all office [selves Whereto our Health feels bound: we are not ourWhen Nature being oppresst, commands the Mind To suffer with the Body. 3901. " Take not the indispos'd and sickly fit 3902. SERVANTS imitate whom they serve The easy-borrowed Pride of worthless Servants Dwells in the tickle Grace of those they follow. 3903. REASON. Mingle Reason with your Passion. 3904. COMPARISON, E'en wicked Creatures yet do look well favor'd When others are more wicked-not being worst Stands in some rank of Praise, 3905, MAN. 29. Man is a little World, 3906. FRANCE 3§. France is wise in our Negligence. 3907, BEGGARS, Beggars marry t.. * Parvula (nam exemplo est) magni Formica Laboris Quæsitis, Sapiens. HOR & PROV. vi. 6. & xxx. 25, An Author, sufficiently celebrated, says this is a great Evil, And would have had an Act pass which should prewent their marrying till they probably would have been so 3908. MISERIES-petty. The Man that makes his Toe འ། ་ What he his Heart should make, Shall of a Corn cry woe, And turn his Sleep to wake. 3909. SUCCESSION, The younger riseth when the old doth fall, 3910. 0110% OF RATITUDE-filial. Filial Ingratitude Is as the Mouth should tear the aiding Hand 3911. OBEDIENCE-filial. Obey thy Parents. 3912. TRUTH to PROMISE. Keep thy word justly, 3913. OATHS. Swear not. 3914. A Commit not with Man's sworn Spouse, Keep thy foot out of Brothels. 3917. PRUDENCE. Keep thy pen from Lenders' Books. long prevented as to think no more of it. There are two objections to this:-that it would be tyrannical and imprac ticable, There is a third, that had it been practicable, and put into effect, the Author and other Authors would soon have had something else to do than to indulge their specula tions. The mere Fish round our Island would supply, were the Fisheries encouraged to the utmost, more subsistence than ten, perhaps an hundred, times the Population of this and the neighbouring Islands could consume, 3918. FLATTERY. § Better mere Contempt Than be contemn'd and flatter'd. 3919. CALAMITY progressive. In great extremities the worst is not So long as we can say this is the worst. 3920. IRRITATION. Bad is the Trade that must play Fool to Sorrow, Angering itself and others, 3921. LUXURY-unfeeling. O Much needs that Luxury Heaven's ChastiseThat will not see because it does not feel. [ments 3922. WISHES. Wishes may prove Effects 3923. PROFLIGACY,TREACHERY, & CRUELTY most odious in WOMEN. Proper Deformity seems not in the Fiend 3924. DESPAIR-Treatment of it. 2. To trifle in kind Caution with Despair May sometimes cure:--but 'tis a desperate Task. 3925. LIFE and DEATH may depend on IMAGINATION. Conceit may rob The Treasury of Life, when Life itself Yields to the Theft. -3926. HEAVEN an unfailing Source of HOPE. 3. Heaven makes it's Honours bra OPMen's impossibilities to preserve. 3927. WISDOM, FORTITUDE, PATIENCE. Bear free and patient Thoughts. * Strong Volition determines to Action. 3928. TEMPORIZING. Aye and No too is no good Divinity. 3929. OFFICE. A Dog's obey'd in Office 3930. POLICY-false. § A scurvy Politician seemsborg tad!! To see the Things he does not. RAZMI ORG 3931. MADNESS-it's Distinction from FOLLY or IDIOCY, 1 f Distraction Joao A Has Matter and Impertinency mixt, Reason in Madness. 3932. SUICIDE. Be not tempted' To die till Nature bids. 3933. SYMPATHY from SUFFERING. Minds by the habit of knowing and feeling Sorrow Are pregnant to good Pity+.9. 3934. GRATITUDE. To a generous Mind A Benefit acknowledg'd is o'erpaid. winnung † 3936. RUMOR. Report is changeable, i L ***The Poet is, I know not why, generally hard on Dogs. Yet, when not corrupted by Man, they are wise, benevolent, and faithful. Almost a Translation of that admirable Verse "Haud ignara Mali miseris succurrere disco." VIRG. 3937. UNSTEADINESS In great emergencies unsteady Tempers Are full of Self-Reproof and Alteration, 3938, COURAGE JUSTICE b * Where he can not be honest, What good Man can be valiant 3939. INVASION 09 A A 3 26. Combine together (gainst the Enemy For then domestic and particular Broils Are not to question: 3940. ACTION. A perilous State, Calls for a prompt Defence; not for Debatet. 3941. JUSTICEt Jon Pray that the Right may thrive, 3942. DEATHS ANZHT! Men must endure Their going home e'en as their coming hither; Ripeness is all. 3943. PATIENCE and FORTITUDE. + Suffering unjustly, thus console yourselves; Z That you are not the first by many and great, Who with good Meaning have incurr'd the worst, 13944, WAR at best a great Evil. Een the best Quarrels in their beat are ourst By those who feel their sharpness. 3945, JEST may be more serious than suppos'd. Jesters do oft prove Prophetst Fortitudo est Virtus pro Justitiâ pugnans. CIC. de OFF. info Non implenda est Curia Verbis Tunc cum Bella Manus poscunt. A dignified Manner of expressing the Proverb- Although it be beyond the scope of this Collection of |