66 - VERY true it is of all the rest of our passions, if they be not bridled, which one said of love, (as that word hath now stabled itself in that one dirty delight), that they are as good as spectacles, to make every thing which they either run to, or run from, much greater than it is.”—AGLIONBY. E. of Cumberland's Voyage.

be backed with unanswerable truths: and he that has that truth on his side, is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because of the currency or multitude of other men's opinions."-Defoe, vol. 1, p. 153.

“I TELL you,” says DEFOE," there's m people in the world so forward to condemn a man upon hearsay as the Dissenters: when they have a mind to slander a man,

THE mischief which such a minister as

Lord — may do himself in the revolution which his whole conduct tends to bring on, is like that of the barber who cut a deep gash in his own thumb through the cheek of his unfortunate patient.

A GOOD Crop of hemp prepares for a good crop of wheat. It destroys the weed.— HENNING. Agricultural Report, p. 43.

"It would be recollected,” said Brougham, “that when a bill was introduced to fix Easter term, Mr. Justice Rook exclaimed, Good God, think of the horror of depriving the whole Christian community of the consolation of knowing that they all kept Easter on the same day?' (hear, and laughter). Now he had no wish, not the least desire, to deprive the Christian community of this consolation, if consolation they found it. They might enjoy it still. But business ought not to be sacrificed to their ideas of comfort and consolation! He should be more glad to see that folly,- for really he could not call it by any other name,-that absurd and vexatious mode of regulating Easter by moons, as it was called, done away with. (hear, and laughter.) There was no inconvenience in Easter being moveable, but there was a very great inconvenience in making the returns moveable."-Times, 8th Feb. Friday, 1828.

- I, Too, say hear! hear! And I would also say learn-mark-and inwardly digest, if I did not know that there are certain diseases in which truth is found to be of all things the most indigestible.

It is truly said by SIR WILLIAM MEREDITH, that "when once a villain turns enthusiast, he is above all law. Punishment is his reward, and death his glory.”—LOCKE, quoted by GLOVER. Parliamentary History, vol. 19, p. 241.

ATKINS, the Purser of the Weymouth, was led by what he observed in Jamaica to conclude, "that although trade be wealth and power to a nation, yet if it cannot be put under restrictions, controlled by a superior and disinterested power, excess and irregularity will be an oppression to many by increasing the difficulties of subsistence, and with it men's disaffection. Here is a distant evil, the cure of which lies in an expence that nobody likes, nor for such dislike will ever blame himself in time of danger."-T. S. vol. 2, p. 227.

"THE Lord is a God of judgement: blessed are all they that wait for him."-Isaiah Xxx. 18.

"WHEN Englishmen," says M. GALiffe, (Italy, vol. 1, p. 302), " talk nonsense, they are more intolerable than any nation on earth, because they talk it methodically, and with a provoking air of pedantic assurance."

He speaks of the "silly observation and vexatious ill-nature of English travellers." | p. 302.

SPIRIT-SHOPS corrupting the people of Hindostan, and rendering them more ferocious.—HEBER's Journal, vol. 1, p. 217.

WHOLESOME feeling in the Turks of the instability of earthly blessings, though beginning in servitude perhaps, and carried to superstition.-TURNER'S Levant, vol. 3, p. 374.

THEN, man, mark by this change what
thou hast won,

That leavest a torrid for a frozen zone,
And art by Vice-vicissitudes unknown."

LORD BROOKE. Mor. and Rel. p. 24. Applicable to the Romanists who pass into infidelity, and the Calvinists who become Socinians.

PERIODICAL Publications.

""Tis true these publications belong to different orders, classes, or parties; and that, like the prismatic colours, one is blue, another red, another green, and another yellow, but let it be remembered that the whole put in motion constitute light."— MR. GEORGE PEARSON'S MSS.

To a Roman, Spanish and the other mixed languages would appear as the talkeetalkee does to us.

"No rules of ordinary foresight will now serve the time," says ORMOND, (A.D. 1668) "but those of honesty and loyalty are in all events safe, provided they are assisted by prudence and industry."-CARTE, vol. 2, p.

377.

BRAG is a safer game for a minister than Hazard and one which will sometimes succeed when weak cards are in an unskilful hand.

Almost I think it may be inferred from Luke xiii. 16, that diseases are the effect of the fall,—part of the penalty, not in the original constitution of our nature, but superinduced by an evil agency.

"YOUR iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you."-Jeremiah v. 25.

He who has a squint in his intellect, never can keep the straight line.

HERE, I think, is the most absurd sentence I ever read-in its kind. It is from HODGSKIN'S Travels, vol. 1, p. 392.

“If men be, as learned doctors say, 'born to evil,' the ambition of protecting them from it far surpasses in madness the mad ambition of conquerors; and they who undertake it make themselves responsible for all the imbecility, immorality, and misery | which are found in the world."

In the same book there is this passage, which contains much more matter for consideration.

"Political economy means with them (the Germans) the knowledge of promoting the prosperity of the people by means of governments. If that general opinion which supposes governments to be beneficial be accurate, it can scarcely be possible that we can have too much of them. The conduct of the Germans is perfectly consistent with this opinion; and those nations only are inconsequent, who acknowledging governments to be beneficial, seek at the same time to limit their power as much as possible."-vol. 1, p. 414.

BUT he proceeds to deliver an opinion that they are a great evil, of which we are to get rid—in the march of intellect.-Ibid. p. 417.

"MAN, instructed well, and kept in awe, If not the inward, yet keeps outward law.” LORD BROOKE, p. 61.

YOUNG preachers.'-Absurdity of letting "Youth appear

'The reader should not forget that when Sir Roger de Coverley asked his chaplain, who preached to-morrow? the good man answered, "The Bishop of St. Asaph in the morning, and Dr. South in the afternoon," as it conveys the opinion of ADDISON on this point.-J. W. W.

And teach what wise men think scarce fit to hear."-Ibid.

THE proper object of government is "So from within man to work out the right As his will need not limit or allay The liberties of God's immortal way." Ibid. p. 62.

MEN

"More divided

By laws than they at first by language were."-Ibid. p. 65.

"MEN joy in war for conscience."

Ibid. p. 80.

"WHEN friends or foes draw swords They ever lose that rest or trust in words." Ibid. p. 143. "I WILL bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts."-Jer. vi. 19.

EVERY one sees how preposterous it would be for his shoes to be made upon another

man's last. And how many a one is there who thinks that his last ought to fit everybody's foot!

CERTAIN reputations

"Which glow-worm like, by shining, show

'tis night."-LORD BROOKE, p. 225.

"WE do, though not the best, the best we can."

Spanish Gipsy. MIDDL. and ROWLEY.

PREDISPOSITION to contagion is less in those who are much exposed to impure air, than in those who live in the country.

WHAT we want is a state of feeling and manners equally opposed to the sullen character of Calvinism and the riot and license of Popery-therefore all harmless adjuncts of religion would be helpful. Church festivals, rush-bearing,' catechetical rewards,

1 See Du CANGE in v. Juncus, and Notes to BRAND'S Pop. Antiq. The Rush-bearing Sunday" is still a high day in the north of Eng. land. The happy medium is what is wanted in these matters.-J. W. W.

club Sundays. Any thing that on holy days and Sundays might make men eschew the idle vein, &c.

NETTLES and docks and brambles flourish and spread when fields and gardens run

to waste.

LORD GOSLING cackles in the House of Commons just in the same notes as Earl Gander, his father, in the House of Lords.

"TRUE: there your Lordship spake enough

in little."

MIDDLETON. Old Plays, vol. 4, p. 377.

"WIT, whither wilt thou?"-to one talking nonsense.

WHY will not persons in better life engage in colonial adventures, or in Owenite establishments?

OLD Mr. Honest from the town of Stu

pidity, Mr. Feeble-mind, Mr. Timorous, and Mr. Pliable-whose opinions are anything which it may please Serjeant Plausible, or Counsellor By-ends to make them.—Mr. Turn-away of the town of Apostacy. Sir John Turntail and Sir Thomas Weathergoose.

"GREAT wealth and great poverty,—if they do not necessarily produce one another, will be generally found co-existent.”—Zillah. H. SMITH.

LIKE old John Bunyan "I bind these lies and slanders to me as an ornament. It belongs,-let me not say to my Christian profession,-to my vocation, to my principles, to the course which I hold, and in which I will proceed manfully till the end, -to the station which I have won for myself, and will maintain,-it belongs to them to be villified, slandered, reproached, and reviled, and since all this is nothing else, as my God and my conscience do bear me witness, I rejoice in such reproaches."Grace Abounding, p. 40.

By false digestion it is turned to wind, And what should nourish, on the eater feeds."-GONDIBERT, p. 221.

"POWER should with public burthens walk upright."-Ibid. p. 227.

D'AVENANT very justly notices "the usual negligence of our nation in examining, and their diligence to censure.". Preface, p. 32.

IN mere truth, i. e. vinous verity.

"DIVINES," says D'Avenant, "are made vehement with contemplating the dignity of the offended (which is God), more than the frailty of the offender.”—Preface to GONDI- ¦ BERT, p. 57.

"POWER hath failed in the effects of authority upon the people by a misapplication, for it hath rather endeavoured to prevail upon their bodies than their minds; forgetting that the martial act of constraining is the best, which assaults the weaker part; and the weakest part of the people is their minds, for want of that which is the mind's only strength, education; but their bodies are strong by continual labour, for labour is the education of the body."-Ibid. p. 59.

A BOOK is new when, on a second or third perusal, we bring to it a new mind. And who is there who, in the course of even a few years, does not feel himself in this predicament?

FORMALITY in business:

"Never was any curious in his place
To do things justly, but he was an ass:
We cannot find one trusty that is witty,
And therefore bear their disproportion.”

CHAPMAN, Bussy D'Ambois, p. 294.

"Ir any worthy opportunity Make but her fore-top subject to my hold." Ibid. Monsieur D'Olive, p. 376.