farther faid in another place, " confider not thy learning as a diadem for thy aggrandizement, nor as a hatchet to labour with." Hillel, likewise, used to say," he who abuseth the crown perifheth." Hence thou art taught that whofoever degrades the Law into a mere source of profit, depriveth himself of life. — ETHICS OF THE FATHERS. 4. No difference is fo eafily perceived as that which a knowledge or an ignorance of ancient literature creates in the manner, the look, the voice, and the language of men, who attempt upon any occafion to utter their opinions in public; and this even when nature may not have been liberal in the gift of eloquence. Under the influence of the former there is a lucid order, a chastity of sentiment, and a language of appropriate manlinefs and harmony. The manner will be compofed and independent, the tones of the voice firm, and adapted to the occafion. In fhort, fuch a man fhall fay but very few words, before you are thoroughly convinced, that he has formed an intimate acquaintance with those great characters, who have juftly obtained an immortal name.-SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. The Lord's Prayer. HE Lord's Prayer is fhort, myfterious, and, like the treafures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses; it is not improper to draw forth thofe excellencies, which are intended and fignified by every petition, that by fo excellent an authority, we may know what it is lawful to beg of God.— ŠEREMY TAYLOR. 2. Si tamen recte et congruenter oramus, nihil aliud dicere poffumus quam quod in Oratio Dominica continetur.—ST. AUGUS TINE. Love. OVE is the great inftrument of tion as cannot fo properly be faid to be in the foul as the foul to be in that; it is the whole man wrapt up into one defire.-DR. SOUTH. Love of Money. HE love of money is a vertiginous pool, fucking all into it to deftroy it. It is troubled and uneven, giddy and unfafe, serving no end but its own, and that alfo in a restless and uneafy motion. But the love of God is a holy fountain, limpid and pure, fweet and falutary, lafting and eternal. The love of God fpends itself upon him to receive again the reflections of grace and benediction: the love of money spends all its defires upon itfelf to purchase nothing but unfatisfying inftruments of exchange, or fupernumerary provifions, and ends in diffatisfaction, emptiness of fpirit, and a bitter curfe.-JEREMY TAY LOR. M obtained an immortal name.-SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. The Lord's Prayer. HE Lord's Prayer is fhort, myfterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses; it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies, which are intended and fignified by every petition, that by fo excellent an authority, we may know what it is lawful to beg of God. JEREMY TAYLOR. 2. Si tamen recte et congruenter oramus, nihil aliud dicere poffumus quam quod in Oratio Dominica continetur. -ST. AUGUS TINE. Love. OVE is the great inftrument of tion as cannot so properly be faid to be in the foul as the foul to be in that; it is the whole man wrapt up into one defire.-DR. SOUTH. Love of Money. HE love of money is a vertiginous pool, fucking all into it to destroy it. It is troubled and uneven, giddy and unfafe, ferving no end but its own, and that alfo in a restless and uneafy motion. But the love of God is a holy fountain, limpid and pure, fweet and falutary, lafting and eternal. The love of God fpends itself upon him to receive again the reflections of grace and benediction: the love of money spends all its defires upon itfelf to purchase nothing but unfatisfying inftruments of exchange, or fupernumerary provifions, and ends in diffatisfaction, emptiness of fpirit, and a bitter curfe.-JEREMY TAY LOR. M |