Muses.

Whence they may infer that a found judgment is more defirable than a fine imagination, and that abilities without prudence cannot secure them from difgrace and penury.-HENRY KETT.

Knavery.

OST men rather brook their being reputed knaves, than, for their honefty, be accounted fools; knave, in the mean time, paffing for a

name of credit.-DR. SOUTH.

2. THE knavery of covetous men is as indifputable as an axiom; and ought to be fuppofed as a poftulatum in bufinefs. They are falfe by neceffity of principle, and want nothing but an occafion to fhow it. Confcience and covetoufnefs are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.-JEREMY COL

LIER.

Knowledge.

NOWLEDGE, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, confifts in the perception of the truth of affirmative or

negative propofitions.-LOCKE.

2. KNOWLEDGE is the confequence of time, and multitude of days are fitteft to teach wisdom.-JEREMY COLLIER.

Knowledge not always Power. HOUGH power is often the confequence of knowledge, yet it is far from being the fame thing, as fome have affirmed. A man may know how to fence, when his arms are cut off, yet the idea of the art will not enable him for the practice. He may know how to build a fhip, when neither wood nor iron is near him; but the fkill in his head and his hand will not do his bufinefs; therefore knowledge alone is not power.-Ibid.

2. ALEXANDER the Great wrote to his

tutor Ariftotle complaining of that philofopher's publishing fome of his writings that made known to the world thofe fecrets in learning which he had communicated to him in private lectures; concluding "that he had rather excelled the reft of mankind in knowledge than in power.-ADDISON.

3. IGNORANCE is the curfe of God, Knowledge the wing with which we fly to Heaven.-SHAKESPEARE.

Law.

3F LAW there can be no lefs acknowledged, than that her feat is the bofom of God, her voice the harmony of the world, all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power, both angels and men and creatures of what condition foever, though each in different fort and manner, yet all with uniform confent admiring her as the mother of their and joy.HOOKER.

peace

2. LAWS are like fpiders' webbs, that will catch flies, but not wafps and hornets. ANACHARSIS.

Laziness.

MATCH him at play, when following his own inclinations; and fee whether he be stirring and active, or whether he lazily and liftleffly

dreams away his time.-LOCKE.

2. THAT inftance of fraud and laziness, the unjust steward, who pleaded that he could neither dig nor beg, would quickly have been brought to dig and to beg too, rather than ftarve.-DR. SOUTH.

3. WICKED condemned men will ever live like rogues and not fall to work, but be lazy and spend victuals.-LORD BACON.

Leaders.

HE understandings of a Senate, are enslaved by three or four leaders, fet to get or keep employments.-SWIFT.

Learning.

HE end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the neareft, by poffeffing our fouls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of Faith, makes up the highest perfection.-MILTON.

2. LEARNING gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which, one would think, might difpofe us to modefty for the more a man knows, the more he discovers his ignorance.-JEREMY COL

LIER.

3. LEARNING hath its infancy, when it is almost childish; then its youth, when luxurious and juvénile; then its ftrength of years, when folid; and laftly its old age, when dry and exhauft.-LORD BACON.

4. TILL a man can judge whether they be truths or no, his understanding is but little improved; and thus men of much read