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“THE public mind," says SIR E. BRYDGES, thereby intimating that solitude was the " is as servile as it is capricious."—Recollec- best opportunity of religion."—Ibid. p. 163. tions, vol. 1, p. 163.

Ibid. p. 243.-" To suppose that poets are less in search of truth than philosophers, is to draw the opinion from bad poetry."

EVEN of ploughs, VANCOUVER says, " that some improvement may be made upon these ancient machines, daily experience very clearly shows, at the same time it was fully demonstrated that there is an absolute necessity of not altogether departing from a principle the utility of which has been established upon the practice of ages."Survey of Hampshire, p. 92. See also p. 93.

EXPERIMENTS upon old civilization are like breaking up old pastures.

"THE age immediately preceding one's own is less known to any man than the history of any other period." - HORACE WALPOLE, Pinkerton Correspondence, vol. 1, p. 61.

"THERE are monstrosities in the soul as well as the body."-Ibid. p. 224.

"It is well observed by PLUTARCH, ‘that men of desperate and bankrupt fortunes have little regard to their expenses, because should they save them, the tide of their estates won't rise much the higher, and so they think it impertinent to be frugal, when there's no hope of being rich. Yet they that see their heaps begin to swell, and that they are within the neighbourhood of wealth, think it worth while to be saving, and improve their growing stock."-NORRIS, Mis268. p.

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LEVELLERS.-It is not thus that " every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low; that the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain.”—Isaiah xi. 4.

"Ir is not to be conceived how many people, capable of reasoning, if they would, live and die in a thousand errors from lazi

"AND Friendship like an old acquaintance ness; they will rather adopt the prejudices

sends

To his friend Justice, that she should be mild

And look with eyes of mercy on your fault."

GOFFE'S Orestes, p. 237.

NORRIS'S Miss. p. 158.-The atheistic argument from the self-sufficiency of God, -to which that from his goodness is a conclusive answer.-P. 320.

"CERTAINLY," says NORRIS (ibid. p. 160), "there is more required to qualify a man for his own company than for other men's." It is not 66 every man that has sense and thoughts enough to be his own companion."

"THE ancients chose to build their altars and temples in groves and solitary recesses,

of others than give themselves the trouble of forming opinions of their own. They say things at first because other people have said them, and then persist in them because they have said them themselves."-CHESTERFIELD, vol. 1, p. 335.

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choose a set of opinions for himself!!— Ibid. p. 370.

"WHEN youth made me sanguine," says HORACE WALPOLE, "I hoped mankind might be set right. Now that I am very old, I sit down with this lazy maxim, that unless one could cure men of being fools, it is to no purpose to cure them of any folly; as it is only making room for some other."-PINKERTON's Correspondence, vol. 1, p. 91.

"SELF-INTEREST is thought to govern every man; yet is it possible to be less governed by self-interest than men are in the aggregate."—H. W. ibid.

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"Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy."-Ibid. 9. Thy sins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm weather."-Ibid. iii. 15.

"Bind not one sin upon another; for in one thou shalt not be unpunished.”—Ibid. vii. 8.

1 These texts for sermons, most of them, were written very early,-they occur at the end of a Note Book for 1799. The last text of all is in dark fresh ink, and evidently shows the consolation derived by the lamented SOUTHEY from his every day study of the Bible.-J. W. W.

"My son, glorify thy soul in meekness." -Ibid. x. 28.

"Before man is life and death, and whether him liketh, shall be given him."—Ibid. xv. 17.

"BE not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil."-Proverbs iii.

7.

"In every good work, trust thy own soul: for this is the keeping of the commandments."-Ecclesiasticus xxxii. 22.

"Whoso feareth the Lord, shall not fear nor be afraid, for He is his hope."-Ibid. xxxiv. 14.

"BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you; which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand."— 1 Cor. xv. 1.

"By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."—Ibid. 2.

As many as touched him were made! whole.”—Mark vi last verse.

"What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."—Ibid. xi. 24.

→ THEN touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you "And their eyes were opened."

Matthew ix. 29-30.

BUT as for me, I will come into thine house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy."-Psalm v. 7.

“BLESSED are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."-Matthew v. 6.

TEXTS FOR ENFORCEMENT.

"THINK of the Lord with a good har: God

HINK of the Lord with a good heart! "And incorruption maketh us near unto

For He will be found of them that tempt Him not, and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him."-Wisdom i. 1-2.

“Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.

" If your delight be then in thrones and

* For froward thoughts separate from sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour God."-Ibid. 3.

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"Wisdom is easily seen of them that love, her: whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail; for he shall find her sitting at his doors."-Ibid. vi. 12-14.

"She goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her. Sheweth herself favourably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.

"For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline, and the care of discipline is love:

“And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption:

wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore." — Ibid. 16.

“WORSHIP the Lord in the beauty of holiness."-Psalm xxix. 2.

"He that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about." — Ibid. xxxii. 10.

"Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, secording as we hope in thee."—Ibid. xxx. 22.

"O taste, and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in Him." -Ibid. xxxiv. 8.

“ WHEREWITHAL a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished.”—Wisdom xi. 16.

"For Thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which Thou hast made; for never wouldest Thou have made any thing, if Thou hadst hated it.

"And how could any thing have endured. if it had not been Thy will? or been preserved, if not called by Thee?

"But Thou sparest all: for they are

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