Northmen, and offspring of hot Africa:

The all-seeing Father-He in whom we live and

move,

He the impartial Judge of all,-regards

Nations and hues, and dialects alike.

According to their works shall they be judged,
When even-handed Justice in the scale

Their good and evil weighs.

All Men Brethren.-ROBERT SOUTHEY.

BUSINESS.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp, but never in a court.

BUSYBODIES.

Maxims, XLVIII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

Censorious people are like

Such as are still observing upon others, are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there, while their own runs to ruin. Thoughts on various subjects.—ALEXANDER POPE.

His estate is too narrow for his mind; and, therefore, he is fain to make himself room in others' affairs, yet ever in pretence of love. No news can stir but by his door; neither can he know that which he must not tell. What every man ventures in a Guiana voyage, and what they gained, he knows to a hair. Whether Hol

land will have peace, he knows; and on what conditions, and with what success, is familiar to him, ere it be concluded. He labours without thanks, talks without credit, lives without love, dies without tears, without pity-save that some say, "It was pity he died no sooner."

Characters.-BISHOP HALL.

alumny. Influence of

Calumny will sear

Virtue itself.

Winter's Tale, Act. II. Scene 1.—SHAKSPERE.

CALUMNY slanders all.

No might nor greatness in mortality

Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes: What king so strong,
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?

Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene II.-SHAKSPERE.

Life's cares are comforts; such by heaven design'd; He that hath none must make them, or be wretched. Cares are employments; and without employ

The soul is on the rack; the rack of rest,

To souls most adverse; action all their joy.

Night Thoughts, II. Line 160.-EDWARD YOUNG.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise, there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public. A man is more sure of his conduct when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of all that know him.

The Spectator No. 122.-JOSEPH ADDISON.

CATECHISING.

O for the ancient and primitive ordinance of catechising; every youth can preach, but he must be a man indeed who can profitably catechise.

Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XLIX.
THOMAS FULLER.

CATHEDRAL. Impressiveness of an Old
Faith loves to lean on Time's destroying arm,
And age, like distance, lends a double charm ;
In dim cathedrals, dark with vaulted gloom,
What holy awe invests the saintly tomb!
There pride will bow, and anxious care expand,
And creeping avarice come with open hand;
The gay can weep, the impious can adore,
From morn's first glimmerings on the chancel floor,

Till dying sunset sheds his crimson stains
Through the faint halos of the irised

CAUTION.

panes.

Urania.-O. W. HOLMES.

When men come with nets in their ears it is good for the preacher to have neither fish nor fowl in his tongue. But blessed be God, now we need not lie at so close a guard.

Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XL.
THOMAS FULLER.

CELERITY. The Negligent admire

Celerity is never more admired

Than by the negligent.

Antony and Cleopatra, Act III. Scene VII.
SHAKSPERE.

CENSURE.

Let thy pride pardon what thy nature needs,
The salutary censure of a friend.

Night Thoughts, I. Line 313.—EDWARD YOUNG.

CHANCE.

A chance may win that by mischance was lost;
That net that holds no great, takes little fish ;
In some things all, in all things none are cross'd;

Few all they need, but none have all they wish.
Unmingled joys here to no man befall ;
Who least, hath some; who most, hath never all.
Times go by Turns.-ROBERT SOUTHWELL.

CHARITY.

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children,” in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him. If he be not all that he pretendeth, give, and under a personate father of a family, think (if thou pleasest) that thou hast relieved an indigent bachelor. When they come with their counterfeit looks, and mumping tones, think them players. You pay your money to see a comedian feign these things, which, concerning these poor people, thou canst not certainly tell whether they are feigned or not.

Essay on the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis.
CHARLES LAMB.

CHARITY and FRIENDSHIP.

Christian charity is friendship to all the world; and when friendships were the noblest things in the world, charity was little, like the sun drawn in at a chink, or his beams drawn into the centre of a burningglass; but Christian charity is friendship expanded like the face of the sun when it mounts above the eastern hills.

Sermon on Charity, by JEREMY TAYLOR.