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TRUE Valour. "It is the greatest virtue, and the safety Of all mankind; the object of it is danger. A certain mean 'twixt fear and confidence. No inconsiderate rashness, or vain appetite Of false encountering formidable things, But a true science of distinguishing What's good or evil. It springs out of reason And tends to perfect honesty; the scope Is always honour, and the public good, It is no valour for a private cause." Ibid. p. 412. "FEAR to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too."

Ibid.

"I NEVER thought an angry person valiant. Virtue is never aided by a vice.

What need is there of anger and of tumult,
When reason can do the same things, and
more."
Ibid. p. 413.

"THE things true valour's exercised about
Are poverty, restraint, captivity,
Banishment, loss of children, long disease;
The least is death. Here valour is beheld,
Properly seen; about these it is present;
Not trivial things which but require our
confidence."
Ibid. p. 414.

"AND as all knowledge when it is removed
And separate from justice, is called craft,
Rather than wisdom; so a mind affecting
Or undertaking dangers for ambition,
Or any self-pretext, not for the public,
Deserves the name of daring, not of valour.
And over-daring is as great a vice
As over-fearing.

- Yes, and often greater." Ibid. p. 415. "How most ridiculous quarrels are all these! Notes of a queasy and sick stomach, labouring With want of a true injury."—Ibid. p. 417.

"BE watchful; have as many eyes as
Heaven,
And ears as harvest."

Albumazar. Old Play,
vol. 7, p. 111.

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"EL sol cayendo vaya

A sepultarse en las ondas,
Que entre obscuras nubes pardas
Al gran cadaver de oro

Son monumentos de plata."-Ibid.

66 C'ÉTAIT l'heure où l'incertitude de la lumière rend à l'imagination son vague empire, l'heure où la réverie la remet en possession de tout ce que lui ôtait la réalité; où le présent disparaît, où l'avenir et le passé semblent sortir des ténébres.”—CusTINE, vol. 2, p. 338.

"THE Voice so sweet, the words so fair,
As some soft chime had stroked' the air;
And though the sound were parted thence,
Still left an echo in the sense."

BEN JONSON, vol. 9, p. 70.

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Et comme en me couchant je souffle ma chandelle,

Je voudrois en mourant éteindre le soleil." RECUEIL, &c. vol. 4, p. 271.

"MAL est gardé ce que garde la crainte." PASSERAT, &c. vol. 2, p. 111.

"O THOU Soft natural death, that art joint twin [comet To sweetest slumber! no rough-bearded Stares on thy mild departure; the dull owl Beats not against thy casement; the hoarse wolf

Scents not thy carrion! Pity winds thy corse, Whilst horror waits on princes."

WEBSTER, Vol. 1, p. 129.

"I Do love these ancient ruins ; We never tread upon them, but we set Our foot upon some reverend history, And questionless. Here in this open court, Which now lies naked to the injuries Of stormy weather, some men lie interr'd Who loved the church so well, and gave so largely to it: [bones

They thought it should have canopied their Till doomsday. But all things have their end, [like to men, Churches and cities, which have diseases Must have like death that we have." Ibid. vol. 1, p. 306.

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EXTRACTS, FACTS, AND OPINIONS, RELATING TO

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SOCIETY.

Prospects of Society.

EE CLARENDON, vol. 1, part 2, p. 498. Concerning the arts and activity of factious men.

"So most men are deceived in being too reasonable; concluding that reason will prevail upon those men to submit to what is right and just, who have no other consideration of right or justice, but as it advances their interest, or complies with their humour and passion.”—Ibid. p. 1043.

ONE who had hurt his foot by paring a nail to the quick, laughed on being told there was danger of a mortification, and replied, "the foot is a long way from the heart." But the mortification found its way there.

BACON observes," it is not incredible that it should have come into the mind of such an abject fellow (as Lambert Simnell) to enterprize so great a matter, for high conceits do sometimes come streaming into the imaginations of base persons, especially when they are drunk with news and talk of the people."—Henry VII. p. 20.

BACON says that in the Statute of 19 Henry VII. against vagabonds, there may be noted "the dislike the parliament had of gaoling of them, as that which was chargeable, pesterous, and of no open example. And he notices that in all the statutes of this king there are ever coupled the punishment of vagabonds, and the for

bidding of dice and cards, and unlawful games unto servants and mean people, and the putting down and suppressing of alehouses, as strings of one root together, and as if the one were unprofitable without the other."-Ibid. p. 216.

NATIONAL Wealth wholesome only when justly, equitably (not equally) diffused. When the workman as well as the capitalist has his fair proportion of gains and comforts.

"SED jam pudet me ista refellere, cum eos non puduerit ista sentire. Cum verò ausi sint etiam defendere, non jam eorum, sed ipsius generis humani me pudet, cujus aures hæc ferre potuerunt,"-ST. AUGUS

TINE.

THE Overflow of educated persons in both sexes,-" the condition of the one being accompanied with more unhappiness than would easily be imagined, and that of the other bringing with it more danger than statesmen perhaps have yet taken into the account of the evils that are to come."

"THINGS (in Scripture) manifestly and mercifully undefined."-MILLER'S B. Lec

tures.

"SIMPLE (The) Cobler of Aggawam in America. Willing to help 'mend his Native Country, lamentably tattered both in the upper-Leather and Sole, with all the honest stitches he can take, 10s. 6d. Lond. 1647." |

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