the cause of the other.-JEREMY TAYLOR. 3. He faw a cottage with a double coachhouse,

A cottage of gentility;

And the Devil did grin, for his darling fin Is Pride that apes Humility.

COLERIDGE.

4. HUMILITY does not make us either fervile or infenfible; it does not oblige us to be ridden at the pleasure of every coxcomb. We may show our diflike of an imperious humour, as well as of any other foolish action; both for the benefit of others, and in vindication of our own rights. -JEREMY COLLIER.

5. LET every one in his own station exercife himself in goodness, the true genuflection is internal humility. Inftead of many genuflections, be skilled only in manifold virtues. In God's fight this will not be of less value than genuflections; for to proceed in a manner well pleafing to Him is more in harmony with nature, and more fuited to active life than bowing the knee. - ARCHBISHOP EUSTATHIUS.

Hypocrites.

HOLD it better to appear as a drunkard than to pretend to fast; I know not whether any one can so deteft hypocrify and hypocrites as I do; more especially the affumed fanctity of the monks. Such persons are an untruth from head to foot. They deprive the gift of speech of all naturalnefs; they falfify it. For the most part they are filent, but if they are pleased to speak they lisp in an undertone, so that one can hardly tell whether they are speaking or not. They make a show as if by the severities practised on themselves they had loft the power of utterance. What profit can be gained from the discourse of fuch perfons, thofe know best who have heard it; but I have no wish to be one of them. By fuch practices the ignorant man conceals his ignorance, for these people are altogether uncultivated; they would fain be filent, or fay little, that they might not reveal their poverty, for monks who are really wife, men of literature, men of virtue, inducted

into all good culture, exercise their voice and give dignity to language; with their thoughtful difcourfes they make glad the cities of God; with their whole appearance in harmony with nature, they reprefent the truth of Creation, as they ftrive by their actions to attain the image of God. ARCHBISHOP EUSTATHIUS.

2. It is difficult to act a part long; for where truth is not at the bottom, nature will always be endeavouring to return; and will peep out and betray itself one time or other. -DR. SOUTH.

Ideas.

HE idea of fo much is pofitive and clear; the idea of greater is also clear, but it is only a comparative idea.-LOCKE.

2. We know that our thoughts, although fo numerous, are all contained within our own breafts, and are invifible. But as the Supreme Being formed mankind for a state of fociety, he has provided us with organs

municate.

proper for framing articulate founds, and has given us also a capacity of ufing those founds, as figns of all the thoughts we wish to comFrom hence are derived words and languages. For any found being once determined upon to ftand as the sign of an Idea, cuftom by degrees establishes fuch a connection between them, that the appearance of the idea in the mind always brings to our remembrance the name by which it is expreffed; and in like manner the hearing of the name never fails to excite the idea which it is intended to denote. HENRY KETT.

Idleness.

HILDREN generally hate to be idle; all the care then is, that their bufy humour should be constantly employed in fomething of

ufe to them.-LOCKE.

2. IDLENESs is an inlet to diforder and makes way for licentioufnefs. People that

have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.-JEREMY COLLIER.

Idolatry.

DOLATRY is not only an accounting or worshipping that which is not GOD, but it is alfo a worfhipping the true GOD, in a way unfuitable to His nature; and particularly by the mediation of faints, images and corporeal refemblances.-DR. SOUTH.

Ignorance.

ELL an Ignoramus, in place and that he has a wit and un

power,

derstanding above all the world, and he will readily admit the commendation.-Ibid.

2. OUR power is often confined because of our ignorance; because we know not how to make the most of things, and put actives and paffives together.-JEREMY COLLIER.