"THERE are monstrosities in the soul as well as the body.”—Ibid. p. 224.

"It 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.

"IT is not to be conceived how many people, capable of reasoning, if they would, live and die in a thousand errors from lazi

sends

To his friend Justice, that she should be mild

And look with eyes of mercy on your fault."

GOFFE'S Orestes, p. 237.

NORRIS'S Miss. p. 158.-The atheistic argument from the self-sufficiency of God, -to which that from his goodness is a conclusive answer.-P. 320.

"CERTAINLY," says NORRIS (ibid. p. 160), "there is more required to qualify a man for his own company than for other men's." It is not " every man that has sense and thoughts enough to be his own companion."

"THE ancients chose to build their altars and temples in groves and solitary recesses,

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!!. 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.

FACTS "too big for oblivion," Ch. O'Conor. -Ibid. p. 129.

FRONTO said well, "it is a misfortune to live under an emperor, ' qui ne permet à personne de rien faire,' but a greater misfortune to live under a prince who allows every one to do whatever he pleases."BAYLE, vol. 6, p. 605, Xiphil. in Nerva.

"Furieusement laide. A Marchioness d'Ancre of shocking memory."—Bayle.

AND what think you would happen, if your motions were to be carried? They would answer, as BAYLE has answered for them, "Ne soyez pas en peine sur cela, peu de gens nous prendront au mot."—Ibid. tom. 7, p. 86.

Psalm vii. 9.

"I ALWAYS maintained," says GRAY, “that

to an end."

"Let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end."-Common Version.

Psalm xi. 3.

"WHEN the foundations are overturned, what can the righteous man do?"

and that every where else it is a sign of folly."-Vol. 2, p. 239.

"MEN are very prone to believe what they do not understand; and they will believe any thing at all, provided they are under no obligation to believe it.”— Ibid. I. 313.

"TA

AKE heed, therefore, how ye hear." -LUKE viii. 18. "Behold, the kingdom of God is within you."—Ibid. xvii. 21.

"YE that fear the Lord, wait for his mercy; and go not aside, lest ye fall."— Ecclesiasticus, ii. 7.

"Ye that fear the Lord, believe him, and your reward shall not fail."-Ibid. 8.

"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.

"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.

"BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you; which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand."1 Cor. xv. 1.

"By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."-Ibid. 2.

"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.