Such gain the cap of him, that makes them | All desp'rate hazards courage do create, fine,

Secure and free they pass their harmless Warm'd by the fight, or cheer'd through hours,

Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares cised, and never, but in cases of necessity;

nal signification of virtue,-I mean good-Two KINDS OF.
nature,-are of daily use; they are the
bread of mankind, and staff of life.

TEST OF That man who has never been in danger former would seem most necessary for the cannot answer for his courage. camp, the latter for council; but to constiLa Rochefoucauld.tute a great man, both are necessary.

I am no courtier, no fawning dog of state,
To lick and kiss the hand that buffets me;
Nor can I smile upon my guest and praise
His stomach, when I know he feeds on
poison,

In the ears of greatness; if they can once
Entangle them in their quaint treachery,
They poison them straight.
John Day

A CRISIS IN.

COURTSHIP.

And death disguised sits grinning at my There is, sir, a critical minute in

table.

DESCRIPTIONS OF.

Sewell.

Ev'ry man's wooing, when his mistress may
Be won, which if he carelessly neglect

Men that would blush at being thought To prosecute, he may wait long enough sincere,

And feign, for glory, the few faults they want;

That love a lie, where truth would pay as
well;

As if to them, vice shone her own reward.
Young.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck
Shakespeare.

away.

Live loath'd and long,

Most smiling, smooth, detested, parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek

bears,

Before he gain the like opportunity.
Marmion's Antiquary.

CHARACTERISTIC IN.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed, and maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. Shakespeare.

Women are angels wooing; Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing;

That she belov'd knows nought, that knows not this,

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it

is.

DEFINITION OF.

Ibid.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor Sterne. so vague as not to be understood. MANNER OF.

Say that she rail; why then I'll tell her
plain,

She sings as sweetly as a nightingale;
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as
clear

As morning roses, newly wash'd with dew;
Say she be mute and will not speak a word,
Then I'll commend her volubility
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
Shakespeare.

PLEASURES OF.

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. Addison, PLUCK IN.

Great or good, or kind or fair,
I will ne'er the more despair;
If she love me, this believe,

I will die ere she shall grieve.
If she slight me when I woo,

I can scorn and let her go;
If she be not fit for me,
What care I for whom she be?

Wither.

Bold at the council board
But cautious in the field.
Dryden.
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,
Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard.
Shakespeare.
A coward; a most devout; religious in it.
Ibid.

I know him a notorions liar

Ibid.

Covetous men are fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, madmen, who live by Think him a great way fool, solely a coward. themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear suspicion, sorrow, discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who are rather possessed by their money than possessors of it. Burton.

CONTEMPT for a.

Go-let thy less than woman's hand
Assume the distaff-not the brand.

Byron.

DIVERSITY OF.

The ever varying brilliancy and grandeur of the landscape, and the magnificence of the sky, sun, moon and stars, enter more extensively into the enjoyment of mankind than we, perhaps, ever think, or can possibly apprehend, without frequent and extensive investigation. This beauty and splendour of the objects around us, it is ever to be romembered, is not necessary to their existence, nor to what we commonly intend by their usefulness. It is therefore to be regarded as a source of pleasure, gratuitously superinduced upon the general nature of the objects themselves, and in this light, and a testimony of the divine goodness, peculiarly affecting. Dwight.

From nature's constant or eccentric laws, The thoughtful soul this general inference draws,

That an effect must pre-suppose a cause;
And, while she does her upward flight sus-
tain,

Touching each link of the continued chain,
Ibid. At length she is oblig'd and forc'd to see
A first, a source, a life, a Deity;
Which has forever been, and must forever
be.

We cannot look around us, without being struck by the surprising variety and multiplicity of the sources of Beauty of Creation, produced by form, or by colour, or by both united. It is scarcely too much to say, that every object in nature, animate or inanimate, is in some manner beautiful, so largely has the Creator provided for our pleasures, through the sense of sight. It is rare to see anything, which is in itself distasteful, or disagreeable to the eye, or repulsive.

Macculloch.

Prior.

The heavens are a point from the pen of His
perfection;

The world is a rosebud from the bower of
His beauty;

The sun is a spark from the light of His
wisdom;

And the sky is a bubble on the sea of His
power.

His beauty is free from stain of sin,
Hidden in a vail of thick darkness.
He formed mirrors of the atoms of the world,