says STEELE," that a little mirth and diversion are what recreate the spirits upon those occasions; but there is a kind of sorrow from which I draw a consolation that strengthens my faculties and enlarges my mind, beyond any thing that can flow from merriment."-Guardian, No. 5. Ir the dwarfs offered the choice of a shield or a sword of their fabric, which ought to be chosen ? 66 QUE ceux qui ne peuvent pas découvrir par le raisonnement l'évidence des vérités de la Religion, conçoivent au moins du respect pour elle, en voïant le caractère de COMMON words, started into a new sig- ceux qui la méprisent, ou qui la combatent." nification.-Ibid. No. 60. -LA BRUYERE, tom. 2, p. 421. "IF," says LIGHTFOOT, (vol. 6, p. 179) "I were to make a threefold wish, as Austin once did, I cannot tell what to wish for to more profit and advantage, than to know God as he is, the Devil as he is, and ourselves what we are." LIGHTFOOT says (vol. 6, p. 236), "there is no grace, but there is a false coin minted by the Devil to dissemble it." "HE that desires to be undone, and cares not to be prevented by God's restraining grace, shall find his ruin in the folly of his own desires, and become wretched by his own election."-J. TAYLOR, tom. 3, p. 274. "OUT of this life I can carry nothing but my good works: I will not add unto my evil ones that of vain glory. I will take heed wherein I set my heart; since the accomplishing of what I wish, may be a punishment of my desires."-Ibid. p. 437. "CELUI qui n'a égard en écrivant qu'au goût de son siècle, songe plus à sa personne qu'au ses écrits."-LA BRUYERE, vol. 1, p. 41. "IL y a dans quelques hommes une certaine médiocrité d'esprit qui contribue à les rendre sages."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 123. "LES esprits capables d'envisager plusieurs choses à la fois sont raisonnables; ceux qui n'en voïent qu'une sont entêtés et opiniâtres quoiqu'ils se croïent fermes et constans."-Ibid. p. 318. "A MAN cannot more strengthen or confirm a weak, crazy, or unsound objection, than by giving it a lame, unsolid, or unsatisfactory answer."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 515. "THAT which we call a brazen face, hath always for its supporter an iron sinew, or a brawny heart."—Ibid. vol. 3, p. 479. "MAGIS eligo cautam ignorantiam confiteri, quam falsam scientiam profiteri.”— ST. AUGUSTINE. Ibid. vol. 7, p. 435. "AND Heaven that knows what most ye ought to ask, Grant all ye ought to have." MASON'S Caractacus. "THE very hope that cheers us is more vain "THE usage I have had, I know would make Than the desire that raised it." Wisdom herself run frantic through the “THE wild ivy streets, And Patience quarrel with her shadow." Ibid. "THE Devil, and This fellow are so near, 'tis not yet known Which is the eviler angel." Ibid. "NEITHER our preaching, nor our praying to God are only sufficient, but withal we must do our endeavours and help each other; since for the driving away of a dog there is (as the countryman saith) some virtue in a stone, if it be conjoined with St. John's Gospel."-Parliamentary History, Spreads and thrives better in some piteous vol. 1, p. 750. Elizabeth. Speaker not named. Ir is a good remark of Lord Waldegrave, that "the transition from pleasure to business is both shorter and easier, than from a state of total inaction."-P. 9, Memoirs. NEWS. "I commend it to your lordship as men do fish, for the freshness, not for certainty."-SIR THOMAS ROSE to STRAFford, Letters, vol. 1, p. 356. "DELAYS are wisdom, where Time may more easy ways of safety show." LORD BROOKE, p. 104. "SELF murther is an ugly work of fear." Ibid. "NEVER make a defence or apology before you be accused;" a rule, said Charles the First to Strafford, "that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lover." And for an author too, say I. "STALE reversions, Glean'd from the rags and frippery of wit." Ro. Randolph, Verses prefixed to his Brother's Poems. "THE time, I believe, hastens, when my "Do boast their loves and brayeries so at knowledge shall be so clear, that faith shall find no employment, and hope shall receive a discharge, and charity shall be left alone in its full strength."-Ibid. p. 348. "GOOD fellows, whom men commonly do call "THE plague that in some folded cloud remains, The bright sun soon disperseth: but observe, Those that do live at war with truth and When black infection in some dunghill lies, There's work for bells and graves if it do rise." shame." Ibid. p. 181. "I HAVE for books, above my head the sky, "FALSE antidotes for vicious ignorance, "TILL the inward moulds be truly placed, GONDIBERT, p. 2. Ibid. p. 442. "READY as pilots waked with sudden winds." Ibid. p. 14. "SINS are heard furthest when they cry in blood." Spanish Gipsy, MIDDLETON & ROWLEY, "SIR, I hope You are not his judge: you are too young, too choleric, Too passionate: the price of life or death Requires a much more grave consideration Than your years warrant."-Ibid. p. 206. "GOOD works Give wealth a blessing. On the contrary, What curses does he heap upon his soul That leaves his riches to a riotous young man, To be consumed on surfeits, pride, and harlots. Peace be upon that spirit, whose life provides A quiet rest for mine." MIDDLETON, More Dissemblers beside |