the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.-Montaigne.

CCCXII.

True courage has so little to do with anger that there lies always the strongest suspicion against it, where this passion is highest. The true courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal bullying insolence; and in the very time of danger are found the most serene, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in fury or anger can never be placed to the account of courage. Were it otherwise, womankind might claim to be the stoutest sex; for their hatred and anger have ever been allowed the strongest and most lasting.Shaftesbury.

CCCXIII.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate. Those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels, in privacy, to be useless encumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition; the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is indeed at home that every man must be known, by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue, or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour and fictitious benevolence.-Johnson.

CCCXIV.

Love is a fire that burns and sparkles,
In man, as natʼrally as in charcoals,
Which sooty chemists stop in holes,
When out of wood they extract coals;

So lovers should their passions choke,

That though they burn they may not smoke.

CCCXV.

Butler.

It seems to be with the devil in respect to the disorder of the soul, as it is with the spleen in respect to the distempers of the body; whatsoever is amiss, or indisposed, the charge is sure to lie there.-Dr. South.

CCCXVI.

In vain would art presume to guide
The chariot wheels of praise;
When fancy driving ranges free
Fresh flowers selecting like the bee,
And regularly strays.

CCCXVII.

Phillips.

The world produces for every pint of honey, a gallon of gall; for every dram of pleasure, a pound of pain; for every inch of mirth, an ell of moan; and as the ivy twines around the oak, so does misery and misfortune encompass the happiness of man. Felicity, pure and unalloyed felicity, is not a plant of earthly growth; her gardens are the skies.-Burton.

CCCXVIII.

Ordinary quacks and charlatans are thoroughly sensible how necessary it is to support themselves by collateral assistances, and therefore always lay claim to some supernumerary accomplishments which are wholly foreign to their profession.-Tatler.

CCCXIX.

Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.-Hall.

CCCXX.

Among our Scythian ancestors, the number of pens was so infinite, that Herodotus had no other way of expressing it than by saying, that in the regions far to the north, it was hardly possible for a man to travel, the very air was so replete with feathers.-Swift.

CCCXXI.

To live deprived of one's country is intolerable. Is it so? how comes it then to pass that such numbers of men live out of their countries by choice. Observe how the streets of London and Paris are crowded. Call over those millions of name, and ask one by one of what country they are: how many will you find, who from different parts of the earth come to inhabit these great cities, which afford the largest opportunities, and the largest encouragement to virtue and vice. Some are drawn by ambition, and some are sent by duty; many resort thither to improve their minds, and many to improve their fortunes: others bring their beauty, and others their eloquence to market. Remove from hence, and go to the utmost extremities of the east or west; visit the barbarous nations of Africa, or the inhospitable regions of the north, you will find no climate so bad, no country so savage, as not to have some people who come from abroad, and inhabit there by choice.Bolingbroke.

CCCXXII.

The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse, and make deeper gashes, than a goosequill sometimes: no not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite, that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet, and the bones crack.-Howell.

CCCXXIII.

The passion of some lovers is such, that it eludes the rigour of their fortune, and baffles the force of a blow, which neither feels, because each receives it for the sake of the other.-Tatler.

CCCXXIV.

Bartering his venal wit for sums of gold,
He cast himself into the saintlike mould;

Groan'd, sigh'd, and pray'd, while godliness was gain,
The loudest bag-pipe of the squeaking train.

Dryden.

CCCXXV.

Clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature, and mixture of falsehood is like alloy in coin of gold and silver, which make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it: for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet.-Lord Bacon.

CCCXXVI.

Rest unto our souls!-'tis all we want-the end of all our wishes and pursuits: give us a prospect of this, we take the wings of the morning, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth to have it in possession: we seek for it in titles, in riches and pleasures-climb up after it by ambition, come down again and stoop for it by avarice, -try all extremes; still we are gone out of the way; nor is it, till after many miserable experiments, that we are convinced at last, we have been seeking every where for it, but where there is a prospect of finding it; and that is within ourselves, in a meek and lowly disposition of heart.-Sterne.

CCCXXVII.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune: it is not completed before fifty; he falls a building in his old age, and dies by that time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.Bruyere.

CCCXXVIII.

Families are sometimes chequered as in brains, so in bulk.-Fuller.

CCCXXIX.

A seat in this house for good purposes, for bad purposes, for no purposes at all, (except the mere consideration derived from being concerned in the public council,) will ever be a first-rate object of ambition in England. Ambition is no exact calculator. Avarice itself does not calculate strictly when it games.-Burke on Parliament.-Swift.

CCCXXX.

The corrupt part of the sect of Epicurus, only bor rowed his name, as the monkey did the cat's claw to draw the chesnut out of the fire.-Swift.

CCCXXXI.

Base rivals, who true wit and merit hate,
Caballing still against it with the great,
Maliciously aspire to gain renown,

By standing up, and pulling others down.

CCCXXXII.

Dryden.

Show me the man, who knows what life is, who dreads death; and I'll show thee a prisoner who dreads his liberty-Sterne.

CCCXXXIII.

Prudent men lock up their motives; letting familiars have a key to their heart, as to their garden.-Shenstone.

CCCXXXIV.

A woman of fortune, being used to the handling of money, spends it judiciously: but a woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.-Johnson.

CCCXXXV.

The infinitely little constitutes the infinite difference in works of art, and in the degrees of morals and religion; the greater rapidity, precision, and acuteness, with which this is observed and determined, the more authentic and the greater the observer.-Lavater.

CCCXXXVI.

I own it, that from Whitsuntide to within three weeks of Christmas,-'tis not long-'tis like nothing;-but to those who know what death is, and what havoc and destruction he can make, before a man can wheel about, -'tis like a whole age.-Sterne.

CCCXXXVII.

A shrewd observer once said, that in walking the