Punishment is lame, but it comes. You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows. The eyes have one language everywhere. Heresy is the school of pride. For the same man to be a heretic and a good subject is incompossible. SINGING the ass's tune, high begun, but lowly ended. - LUTHER. Coll. Mensalia, p. 401. "EBUR atramento candefacere." ERASMUS. Adag. p. 140. A GERMAN quarrel-three fighting, each one against the other two. THERE'S craft in the clouted shoe. "DESDICHADO Convento, triste Religion, Que la Missa del Gallo la canta un Capon." The Spaniards applied this to some of their officers who were unworthily entrusted with command. "CHERCHANT toujours cinq pieds.”—Pamela, vol. 3, let. 20. "En un mouton." Amadis, 1. 10, p. 37. "NOVIT enim Deus, cur capræ curtam eandam dederit."-VAN HELMONT, p. 751. 66 "I MUST tell you," says Strafford to Lord Cottington, a sow's ears may prove good souce, albeit no silken purse: and the proverb is such as any king in Christendom must be pleased withal, the expression being so significant, and yet withal so quaint, and so little vulgar. Look you, put it among those of Spain, which you brag so much of, for in the whole catalogue you have not one so poignant and pressing."-STRAFFORD'S Letters, vol. 1, p. 163. GUIBERT, Abbas de Pignoribus Sanctorum in Dacherius. CHURCH of England. "We have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully: but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God."-2 Corinth. iv. 2. In the patriarchal and earlier age, though men were so much nearer their origin that the intercourse with spiritual beings was open, yet they were incapable of conceiving any but a personal and visible Deity. FULLER (Pisgah Sight, p. 394), speaking of the fire from heaven which consumed Elijah's sacrifice, says in an odd parenthesis, "God employs no slugs on his errands." Yet the slow causes of destruction which work in performance of the Almighty will, are as sure and more numerous than the swift ones. Ibid. p. 403-4. SACRILEGE. No such sin in their days! well answered. MEN rendered so impotent by their false philosophy, even more than by their natural corruption, that they are not sufficient "to think a good thing, not able to understand THEY who set aside the consideration of a good thing, nor to comprehend the light religion in political matters, act like a phywhen it shines upon them."-BP. REYNOLDS, vol. 1, p. 209. SOME in the prospect of death, have the galling anticipation of what others will gain by it, and rejoice therefrom: some the pain ful one of what others will lose. MEN may more easily persuade against their inclination, as well as their judgment, to do what is foolish, absurd, imprudent, dangerous, and even sinful, than to what is right, if inclination to the right is wanting. THE author who draws upon the firm of envy, hatred, malice, and uncharitableness, is always sure that his bills will be accepted there. sician who, in the treatment of his patients, should disregard all affections of the mind. SOCIETY, or rather government, is like a road; the best require to be constantly kept in order; else nothing can be worse than the decayed and broken state of that which has been most firmly constructed. "IL est de l'utilité publique que certaines gens soient obligés de s'écrier," "Eheu, Quam temerè in nosmet legem sancimus unquam."-Horace, sat. 3, 1. 1, v. 67. BAYLE, vol. 3, p. 331. NICIUS ERYTHREUS says there is a pro gances, peut-on dire au plus misérable lardoniste de l'Europe, vous trouverez assez de gens qui copieront vos contes; et si l'on vous rebute dans un certain temps, il naîtra des conjunctures où l'on aura intérêt de vous faire resusciter."—Ibid. p. 399. "AVARISSIMA honoris humana mens, facilius regnum et opes quam gloriam partitur."-En. Sylvius, Hist. Boh. "AFIN qu'un raillerie soit bonne, il faut que celui qu'on raille mérite d'être raillé." Ibid. vol. 5, p. 243. "As for wisdom, that may denote either sapience, a habit of knowing what is true; or prudence, a disposition of choosing what is good.”—Ibid. vol. 2, p. 491. POINTS upon which, with Jeremy Taylor, I will express my own sense in St. Augustine's words:- "Mallem quidem eorum, quæ à me quæsivisti, habere scientiam quam ignorantiam; sed quia id nondum potui, magis eligo cautam ignorantiam confiteri, quam falsam scientiam profiteri."-J. TAYLOR, Vol. 7, p. 435. THE wise and the half-learned.-PINDAR, VIRTUE requires struggling. - Olym. 4, 30, &c. “PLUS je lis, plus je me persuade qu'il Olym. 2, v. 155, &c. n'est pas aussi difficile de trouver des écrivains qui aient de belles et de bonnes pensées, que d'en trouver qui les expriment sans s'embarrasser dans quelque mauvais raisonnement. Un bon logicien est plus rare qu'on ne pense."—Ibid. p. 501. A FLINT is easily broken upon a pillow. "A DISTEMPERED constitution of mind, as of body, is wont to weaken the retentive faculty, and to force an evacuation of bad humours."-BARROW, vol. 1, p. 285. "THE reporter in such cases must not think to defend himself by pretending that he spake nothing false; for such propositions, however true in logic, may justly be deemed lies in morality, being uttered with a malicious and deceitful (that is, with a calumnious) mind; being apt to impress false conceits, and to produce hurtful effects concerning our neighbours. There are slanderous truths as well as slanderous falsehoods: when truth is uttered with a deceitful heart, and to a base end, it becomes a lie."-Ibid. p. 387. ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON says, "Even sin may be sinfully reproved; and how thinkest thou that sin shall redress sin, and restore the sinner?" See on 1 Pet. iv. 8. Vol. ii. p. 339. J. W. W. Αἰεὶ δ' ἀμφ' ἀρεταῖσι, πόνος δαπά |