grace the cause which we may respectively wish to support.-Dr. Parr.

668.

If thou contendest or discoursest in argument, let it be only with wise and sober men; of whom thou mayst learn by reasoning; not with ignorant, conceited, and angry persons, who may affront and vex thee.

669.

When you do any thing from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shun the being seen to do it, even though the world should make a wrong supposition about it; for if you do not act right, shun the action itself; but if you do, why are you afraid of those who censure wrongly? -Epictetus.

670.

Where the reason of the thing doth not require or determine; where the necessity of the end doth not claim and enforce; where there is no positive prohibition, or injunction to the contrary, from God; there, under God, we have liberty.—Dr. Whichcote.

671.

A leading distinction between men of enlarged and philosophic genius, and the uninformed multitude, appears to be, that the former perceive, at least in part, the reasons or causes of things, while the latter perceive only the things themselves.W. B. Clulow.

672.

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Hesiod, in his celebrated distribution of mankind, divides them into three orders of intellects. "The first place," says he, "belongs to him that can by his own powers discern what is right and fit, and penetrate to the remoter motives of action. The second is claimed by him that is willing to hear instruction, and can perceive right and wrong

when they are shewn him by another; but he that has neither acuteness nor docility, who can neither find the way by himself, nor will be led by others, is a wretch without use or value."

673.

They who would exclude the poor from all knowledge are frequently persons who have experienced the advantages of education, and are Their placed in very respectable situations. reasoning, however, reminds one of the illiterate and brutal Cade's interview with the Clerk of Chatham. "Cade.

Let me alone.-Dost thou use to write thy name? or hast thou a mark to thyself like an honest plain-dealing man?

"Clerk. Sir, I thank God, that I have been so well brought up that I can write my name. "All. He hath confessed; away with him! he's a villain and a traitor.

"Cade. Away with him, I say! hang him with his pen and ink-horn about his neck!"Dr. Parr.

674.

Propagate good instruction to correct men's vices; part with your wealth to effect men's happiness.-Chinese maxim.

675.

Those that are teaching the people to read, are doing all that in them lies to increase the power, and to extend the influence of those that can write; for the child will read to please his master, but the man to please himself.-Lacon.

676.

Morality is the congruity and proportion that is between the actions of rational beings and the objects of those actions.-Dr. Whichcote.

677.

Inattention to minute actions will ultimately be prejudicial to a man's virtue.-Chinese maxim.

678.

It is good for a man to abstain from anger, if not for wisdom's sake, yet for his own bodily health's sake.

679.

The best cure for drunkenness is, while sober, to observe a drunken man.-Chinese maxim.

680.

If the stream be not confined it will soon flow away and become dry; if wealth be not economized, there will be no limits to its expenditure, and it will soon be wasted.- Chinese marim.

681.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.682.

Keep exact accounts. It is seldom observed that he who keeps an account of his income and expenses, and thereby has constantly under his view the course of his domestic affairs, lets them run to ruin. When any one breaks in Holland, their expression for it is, such a man kept not his accounts well.

683.

He that can look with rapture upon the agonies of an unoffending and unresisting animal will soon learn to view the sufferings of a fellowcreature with indifference; and in time he will acquire the power of viewing them with triumph, if that fellow-creature should become the victim of his resentment, be it just or unjust. But the minds of children are open to impressions of every sort; and, indeed, wonderful is the facility with

which a judicious instructor may habituate them to tender emotions. I have, therefore, always considered mercy to beings of an inferior species as a virtue which children are very capable of learning, but which is most difficult to be taught if the heart has been once familiarized to spectacles of distress, and has been permitted either to behold the pangs of any living creature with cold insensibility, or to inflict them with wanton barbarity.-Dr. Parr.

684.

From the beginning of the world, to this day, there was never any great villainy acted by men, but it was in the strength of some great fallacy put upon their minds by a false representation of evil for good, or good for evil.-Dr. South.

685.

The responsibility of nations seems to be separated from that of individuals; the one to be judged of in this world, the other in the next.— W. Danby.

686.

The great object of government should be to make the general interest, the interest also of each individual.-W. Danby.

687.

If good principles be made general (universal I fear they cannot be), the violation of them will be attended with more danger, the observance with more security; which is probably all that can be attained in human society.-W. Danby.

688.

The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hopes left but in fomenting discord.-Tacitus.

689.

The right of the case is the law of heaven,

and should be the law of the world.-Dr. Whichcote.

690.

Are there not many things amongst the institutions of society which have been the subjects of violent and obstinate controversy, and of which a little unprejudiced common sense may be able at once to form both the censure and the apology! -W. Danby.

691.

That is the most excellent state of society in which the patriotism of the citizen ennobles, but does not merge, the individual energy of the man. -S. T. Coleridge.

692.

Pay in, before you are called upon, what is due to the public, and you will never be asked for what is not due.-Epictetus.

693.

You will confer the greatest benefits on your city, not by raising the roofs but by exalting the souls of your fellow-citizens. For it is better that great souls should live in small habitations than that abject slaves should burrow in great houses.— Epictetus.

694.

He who would live for future generations must have his thoughts occupied, but his hands and his time free. He must be content to remain ignorant of many things which fill the ideas and conversation of the generality; to be neglected perhaps, or misrepresented by his contemporaries; and to behold the superficial or flippant reap the distinctions which are the appropriate rewards of merit.-W. B. Clulow.

695.

The introduction of great inventions appears one of the most distinguished of human actions;