"WEEDS are counted herbs in the beginning of the spring; nettles are put in pottage, and sallats are made of eldernbuds."-FULLER'S Holy State, p. 11 "CHRIST," says good old FULLER the Worthy, "reproved the Pharisees for disfiguring their faces with a sad countenance. Fools! who to persuade men that angels lodged in their hearts, hung out the devil for a sign in their faces."-Ibid. P 18. «Ανάγκη πότε χρόνῳ ἐκ τῶν ψευδῶς ἀγαθῶν ἀληθὲς ἐκβῆναι κακόν.” JACKSON, vol. 2, p. 318. But whether by the great philosopher, whom he quotes, Aristotle or Plato' be meant, I am not certain, probably the former. "As passengers of good respect would often pass by unregarded of poor cottagers, did not ill-nurtured curs notify their approach by barking; so many divine mysteries would be less observed than they are, did not profane objectors become our remembrancers."-JACKSON, vol. 2, p. 410. LA BRUYERE, (vol. 1, p. 40), says truly, that there is a sort of criticism which corrupts both the writer and the readers. JACKSON says, that " to distinguish feigned or counterfeit from true experimental affections, is the most easy and most certain kind of criticism.”—(Vol. 1, p. 22.) True; for men who have the faculty of discernment. But there is nothing in which common readers and common critics are more frequently deceived. "NOR is it when bad things agree Thought union, but conspiracy." KATHERINE PHILIPS. I have not found the passage in Aristotle, whom I have searched by the Index. The argument, and the words nearly, I have found in the Philebus of PLATO, ii. 40. Ed. Priestley à Bekker, vol. v. p. 521. As Jackson makes no reference he probably quoted memoriter. J. W. W. Is that story of the Frison chief, (Ro- "THE fear of the Lord is the beginning chardus, LIGHTFOOT calls him), who having of wisdom;' but calling it the beginning, his foot in the Baptistery, asked whether his implies that we ought to proceed farther, unbaptized forefathers were gone to heaven-namely, from his fear to his love.” or hell; and being told by the bishop, that most certainly they were gone to hell, withdrew his foot, and saying, then I will go the same way with them, refused to be baptized.—I am more inclined to compassionate the error of the bishop than of the barbarian. OLD truths will be again acknowledged, and exploded principles re-established. It will be in philosophy as in geography since we have re-discovered Bathin's Bay. "ROUGE au soir, blanc au matin, CONSTANT alliance of the Popes with any conquering dynasty noted by THIerry. "When thou sawest a thief thou consentedst unto him." And this from Phocas and Charlemagne down to Buonaparte. "I WILL reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done."— Psalm 1. 21. PALEY. Sermon 2. WORSE Sins than idolatry, when men walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart.-Jeremiah xvi. 11-12. AND above all things well and thoroughly consider the horrors of the Mass,—for the . sake of which idol God in justice might have drowned and destroyed the universal world.-Coll. Mensalia, p. 288. "WHO dips with the devil, he had need have a long spoon." -Apius and Virginia. Jacula Prudentum. HE that stumbles and falls not, mends his pace. The gentle hawk half mans herself. Think of ease, but work on. 1 A common proverb. So in the Comedy of Errors," Marry, he must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil."-Act iv. sc. iii. J. W. W. Punishment is lame, but it comes. A man's discontent is his worst evil. Fear nothing but sin. 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. He tells us that Odo, the Conqueror's brother, bought the body of a countryman called Exuperius of a sexton for £100, and made a solemn translation of it for St. Exuperius. THERE was a sort of wandering monks called Circelliones,' who made a trade of selling and stealing relics.-HUGO MENARD, Not. in Concord. Regul. c. 3, p. 125. STILLINGFLEET's Second Discourse, pp. 603-4. ST. JOHN of Beverley's relics foundyielding a sweet smell, in A. Wood's time.Wood's Life, p. 193. "It must be a hard winter when one wolf eateth another."-Euphues. "ONE thing said twice (as we say commonly) deserveth a trudge."-Ibid. "It is a blind goose that knoweth not a fox from a fern-bush; and a foolish fellow that cannot discern craft from conscience, being once cousened."—Ibid. "As good never a whit, as never the better."—GOODMAN's Conference, part 3, p. 50. "REVENONS des asnes aux chevaux, comme dit le proverb."-BOUCHET. 12 Sereés. p. 370. "MUCK is the mother of the meal chest." -WORGAN'S Cornwall, p. 123. “DEXAR los cuydados en el jubon, para tomarlos en la mañana con el."-DOÑA OLIVA SABUCO, p. 33. "LUNE radiis non maturescit botrus."Such things will not prosper with cold enCouragement. "Circelliones dicuntur qui sub habitu Monachorum usquequaque vagantur, venalem circumferentes hypocrisin." Gloss. MS. Sangerman. n. 501. Du CANGE in v. Circellio.-J. W. W. 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 any FEW of our present unbelievers retain natural religion: they verify our Saviour's Elijah's sacrifice, says in an odd parenthe-words, "He that hateth me, hateth my sis, "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 a good thing, nor to comprehend the light when it shines upon them.”—BP. REYNOLDS, vol. 1, p. 209. Father also," (John xv. 23.) and are thus living witnesses, how well he knew what is in the heart of man. 66 IL y a certains moyens qui, par cela même qu'ils sont fort propres à faire la moitié de l'œuvre, sont incapables de la faire toute.”—BAYLE, Dict. vol. 1, p. 277. THE Jews dedicated their houses. Deuter. xx. 5. religion in political matters, act like a physician who, in the treatment of his patients, should disregard all affections of the mind. THEY who set aside the consideration of SOME in the prospect of death, have the galling anticipation of what others will gain SOCIETY, or rather government, is like a by it, and rejoice therefrom: some the pain-road; the best require to be constantly kept 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. 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 |