tell us what fize we are. If little things will please us, we may conclude that we are none of the biggest people. Children are as well known by their diverfions as by their ftature. -JEREMY COLLIER.

Self-praife.

MAN'S praises have very mufical and charming accents in another's mouth; but very Aat and untuneable in his own.-XENOPHON.

Self-teaching.

ERY few men are wife by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching; for he that was only taught by himself, had a fool

for a mafter.-BEN JONSON.

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The Senfes.

HE CREATOR has given us eyes, by the affiftance of which we difcern the works of creation. HE

has, moreover, endowed us with the power of tafting, by which we perceive the parts entering into the compofition of bodies; of fmelling, that we may catch their fubtle exalations; of hearing, that we may receive the found of bodies around us; and of touching, that we may examine their furfaces; and all for the purpose of our comprehending, in fome measure, the wisdom of His works. The fame inftruments of fenfation are bestowed on many other animals, who fee, hear, fmell, taste and feel; but they want the faculty, which is granted us, of combining these fenfations, and from thence drawing univerfal conclufions. When we fubject the human body to the knife of the anatomift, in order to find in the structure of its internal organs fomething which we do not observe in other animals, to account for this operation, we are obliged to own the

vanity of our researches; and must therefore neceffarily ascribe this prerogative to fomething altogether immaterial, which the Creator has given to man alone, and which we call SOUL.-LINNEUS.

2. Of the five fenfes, two are usually and moft properly called the Senfes of Learning, as being moft capable of receiving communication of thought and motions, by felected figns and these are hearing and feeing. DR. HOLDER. "

3. THE lower your fenfes are kept, the better you may govern them. Appetite and Reafon are commonly like two buckets, when one is at the top, the other is at the bottom. Now of the two, I had rather the Reafon-bucket be uppermoft. - JEREMY COLLIER.

Senfuality.

E are fo incorporated to the defires of fenfual objects, that we feel no relish or guft of the fpiriIt is as if a lion fhould eat

tual.

hay, or an ox venifon; there is no proportion between the object and the appetite, till by mortification of our first defires, our wills are made spiritual and our apprehenfions fupernatural and clarified. For as a cook told DIONYSIUS the Tyrant, the black broth of Lacedemon would not do well at Syracufe, unless it be tafted by a Spartan palate; fo neither can the excellencies of Heaven be difcerned, but by a spirit difrelishing the fottish appetites of the world, and accustomed to diviner banquets. And this was mystically fignified by the two altars in SOLOMON'S Temple; in the outer court whereof, beafts were facrificed, in the inner court an altar of incense; the first representing Mortification, or flaying of our beaftly appetites; the second the offering up our prayers, which are not likely to become a pleasant offertory, unless our impurities be removed by the atonement made by the previous facrifices. - JEREMY TAYLOR.

2. MEN in general are too partial in favour of a fenfual appetite, to take notice of Truth, when they have found it.-L'ESTRANGE.

Sir Philip Sidney's Last Words. FTER long* and fevere fuffering from the wound he had received, finding himself past all hope of recovery, he prepared for death with the greatest compofure, and affembled the clergymen of divers nations who were there, he made a full confeffion of his Christian faith. The clofing scene of his life was the parting with his brother Sir Robert Sidney of whom he took leave in thefe words: "Love my memory, cherish my friends; their faith to me may affure you they are fincere: but above all, govern your will and affections by the will and word of your Creator; in me beholding the end of the world and all her vanities.-SIR FULK GREVILLE.

* He was wounded on the 22nd September 1585 at Zutphen in the Netherlands and died the 17th October following at Arnheim--Ed.