A Thought-Book OF THE OLD WISE SPIRITS OF ALL AGES AND ALL COUNTRIES. Addifon's Style. HOEVER wishes to acquire a ftyle which is familiar but not coarfe, and elegant but not oftentatious, muft give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. — DR. JOHNSON. Addifon on Ariftotle, Polybius and Cicero. MENTION Ariftotle, Polybius and Cicero, the greatest philofopher, the most impartial hiftorian and the moft confummate states man of all antiquity.-ADDISON. B Admiration. HERE is a pleasure in admiration; and this is that which properly caufeth admiration, when we difcover a great deal in an object, which we understand to be excellent; and yet we fee (we know not how much) more beyond that, which our understandings cannot fully reach and comprehend.-TILLOT SON. 2. THERE is an admiration that is not the daughter of ignorance. This, indeed, stupidly gazeth at the unwonted effect; but the philofophic paffion admires and adores the Supreme Efficient.-RICHARD GLANVILLE. 3. NEITHER Virgil nor Horace would have gained fo great reputation, had they not been the friends and admirers of each other. ADDISON. 4. RESEARCHES into the springs of natural bodies and their motions, fhould awaken us to admiration at the wondrous wifdom of our Creator, in all the works of nature. DR. ISAAC WATTS. The Affections. FFECTIONS, fuch as joy, grief, fear and anger, being, as it were, the fundry fashions and forms of appetite, can neither rife at the conceit of a thing indifferent, nor yet choose but rise at the fight of fome things. — DR. HOOKER. Almighty Power. T is as eafy to conceive that an Almighty Power might produce a thing out of nothing, and to make that exift de novo, which did not exift before; as to conceive the world to have had no beginning, but to have existed from all eternity.-DR. SOUTH. 2. THOSE who are born muft die; the dead are made to live and the living to be judged; to know, to make known and to confefs that HE, the Almighty God, is the Former, the Creator, the Examiner, Judge, Witness and Complainant; and that He is the Judge for all times to come. Bleffed is |