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that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them every thing.-Franklin.

DXIX.

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and good-nature.-Montaigne.

DXX.

It is observed, that several of the singing birds of our own country learn to sweeten their voices, and mellow the harshness of their natural notes, by practising under those that come from warmer climates. In the same manner I would allow the Italian opera to lend our English music as much as may grace and soften it, but never entirely to annihilate and destroy it. Let the infusion be as strong as you please, but still let the subject matter of it be English.-Addison.

DXXI.

There are more tools than workmen, and of the last more bad than good. What think you of him that would take up his plane to saw, and his saw to plane?--Bruyere.

DXXII.

We are blinded in examining our own labours by innumerable prejudices. Our juvenile compositions please us, because they bring to our minds the remembrance of youth; our later performances we are ready to esteem, because we are unwilling to think that we have made no improvement; what flows easily from the pen charms us, because we read with pleasure that which flatters our opinion of our own powers; what was composed with great struggles of the mind we do not easily reject, because we cannot bear that so much labour should be fruitless.-Johnson.

DXXIII.

A man that hath no virtue in himself ever envieth virtue in others; for men's minds will either feed upon

their own good, or upon other's evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other.-Lord Bacon.

DXXIV.

That man, though in rags, who is capable of deceiving even indolence into wisdom, and who professes amusement, while he aims at reformation, is more useful in refined society, than twenty cardinals with all their scarlet, and tricked out in all the fopperies of scholastic finery.-Goldsmith.

DXXV.

The soul a quality?-This is easily answered by a familiar instance. In every jack, there is a meat-roasting quality, which neither resides in the fly, nor in the weights, nor in any particular wheel of the jack, but is the result of the whole composition: so in an animal, the self-consciousness is not a real quality inherent in one being (any more than meat-roasting in a jack) but the result of several modes or qualities in the same subject. As the fly, the wheel, the chain, the weight, the cords, &c., make one jack, so the several parts of the body make one animal. As perception or consciousness is said to be inherent in this animal, so is meat-roasting said to be inherent in the jack. As sensation, reasoning, volition, memory, &c., are the several modes of thinking; so roasting of beef, roasting of mutton, roasting of pullets, geese, turkeys, &c., are the several modes of meat-roasting. And as the general quality of meat-roasting, with its several modifications, as to beef, mutton, pullets, &c., does not inhere in any one part of the jack; so neither does consciousness, with its several modes of sensation, intellection, volition, &c., inhere in any one, but is the result from the mechanical composition of the whole animal.-Pope.

DXXVI.

The republic of letters is at present divided into three classes. One writer, for instance, excels at a plan, or a title-page, another works away the body of the book,

and a third is a dab at an index. Thus a magazine is not the result of any single man's industry; but goes through as many hands as a new pin, before it is fit for the public.-Goldsmith.

DXXVII.

The form of charge runs thus: "I accuse thee in the name of all the commons of England:" how then can any man be as a witness, when every man is made the accuser.-Selden.

DXXVIII.

A celebrated French moralist said, that when he considered the Wars which we foment in Africa to get negroes, the great number who of course perish in these wars; the multitude of those wretches who die in their passage, by disease, bad air, and bad provisions; and, lastly, how many perish by the cruel treatment they meet with in a state of slavery; when he saw a bit of sugar, he could not help imagining it to be covered with spots of human blood. But had he added to these considerations the wars which we carry on against one another, to take and retake the islands that produce this commodity, he would not have seen the sugar simply spotted with blood, he would have beheld it entirely tinged with it.-Franklin.

DXXIX.

Every man in this age has not a breast of crystal for all men to read their thoughts through. Men's hearts and faces are so far asunder, that they hold no intelli gence.-Buckingham.

CXXX.

The bending brow of prince's face, to wrath that doth attend,

Or want of parents, wife, or child, or loss of faithful

friend;

The roaring of the cannon shot, that makes the place to shake,

Or terror, such as mighty Jove from heaven above can make:

All these, in fine, may not compare, experience so doth

prove, Unto the torments, sharp and strange, of such as be in W. Hunnis.

love.

DXXXI.

I do by no means advise you to throw away your time, in ransacking, like a dull antiquarian, the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.-Chesterfield's Letters.

DXXXII.

The tailor and the painter often contribute to the success of a tragedy more than a poet. Scenes effect ordinary minds as much as speeches; and our actors are very sensible, that a well-dressed play has sometimes brought them as full audiences as a well-written one. The Italians have a very good phrase to express this art of imposing upon the spectators by appearances; they call it the "Fourberia della scena," " The knavery, or trickish part of the drama."-Addison.

DXXXIII.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark,

That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within its bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out e'en to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov'd,

I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

DXXXIV.

Shakspeare.

When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more com

pendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry. Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.-Johnson.

DXXXV.

I remember when I was a little boy, (says Swift, in a letter to Lord Bolingbroke,) I felt a great fish at the end of my line, which I drew up almost on the ground, but it dropt in, and the disappointment vexes me to this very day, and, I believe, it was the type of all my future disappointments.

This little incident, perhaps, gave the first wrong bias to a mind, predisposed to such impressions: and by operating with so much strength and permanency, it might possibly lay the foundation of the Dean's subsequent peevishness, passion, misanthropy, and final insanity. The quickness of his sensibility furnished a sting to the slightest disappointment; and pride festered those wounds which self-government would instantly have healed. As children couple hobgoblins with darkness, every contradiction of his humour, every obstacle to his preferment, was, by him, associated with ideas of malignity and evil. By degrees, he acquired a contempt of human nature, and a hatred of mankind, which at last terminated in the total abolition of his rational faculties.-Percival.

DXXXVI.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimnies, than to keep one in fuel.Franklin.

DXXXVII.

The fate of all extremes is such,

Men may be read, as well as books, too much.
To observations, which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake,
To written wisdom, as another's, less:

Maxims are drawn from notions, these from guess.

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