Slander.

LANDER is a fecret propenfity of the mind, to think ill of all men, and afterwards to utter fuch fentiments in fcandalous expreffions.-THEOPHRASTUS.

2. IF any one fpeak ill of thee, confider whether he hath truth on his fide; and if fo, reform thyself, that his cenfures may not affect thee.-EPICTETUS.

3. As for thofe terrible names of fectaries and fchifmatics, which ye have got together, we know your manner of fight; when the quiver of your arguments, which is ever thin and weakly ftored, after the first brunt is quite empty, your courfe is to betake ye to your other quiver of flander, wherein lies your best archery. And whom you could not move by fophiftical arguing, then you think to confute by fcandalous mifnaming; thereby inciting the blinder fort of people to mislike and deride found doctrine and good Christianity, under two or three vile and hateful terms.-MILTON.

4. WE ought not to be dejected by the flanders and calumnies of bad men; because our integrity will be declared by Him who cannot err in judgment.-NELSON.

5. As by flattery a man opens his bosom to his mortal enemy; fo by detraction and flander he shuts the fame to his best friends. -DR. SOUTH.

Sloth.

HE very foul of the flothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his fenfes.

L'ESTRANGE.

2. SLOTH 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.

3. EXCESS is not the only thing which breaks men in their health, and in the comfortable enjoyment of themselves; but many are brought into a very ill and languishing habit of body, by mere floth; and floth is in

itself, both a great fin, and the cause of many more.-DR. SOUTH.

Slovenlinefs.

LOVENLINESS is a lazy and beaftly negligence of a man's own perfon, whereby he becomes fo fordid as to be offenfive to those

about him.-THEOPHRASTUS.

Sluggishness.

KT is of great moment to teach the mind to shake off its fluggishness, and vigorously employ itself about what Reason fhall direct.-LOCKE.

Slumber.

ROM careleffnefs it will fall into flumber, and from a flumber it will fettle into a deep and long fleep; till at laft, perhaps, it will fleep itself into a lethargy, and that such one,

that nothing but Hell and Judgment can awake it.-DR. SOUTH.

Smiles.

WEET intercourse

Of looks and fmiles; for fmiles from reafon flow

To brute denied, and are of love the food.-MILTON.

2. Of all the appearances of the human countenance, methinks a fmile is the most extraordinary. It plays with a furprizing agreeablenefs in the eye, breaks out with the brighteft diftinction, and fits like a glory upon the countenance. What fun is there within us, that shoots his rays with fo fudden a vigour? To fee the foul flash in the face at this rate, one would think would convert an atheift. By the way, we may obferve that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This feems a natural encouragement to good humour; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handfome, they

must not be peevish and untoward.-JERE

MY COLLIER.

Solitude.

E that is pleased with folitude must be either a wild beast or a god.ARISTOTLE.

2. EAGLES fly alone, and they are but sheep which always herd together.— SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

3. THE SOLITUDE of a youth of genius has a local influence; it is full of his own creations of his unmarked paffions and his uncertain thoughts. The titles which he gives his favourite haunts, often intimate the bent of his mind-its employment or its purpose; as Petrarch called his retreat Linternum, after that of his hero Scipio; and a young poet, from fome favourite description in Cowley, called a spot he loved to muse in "Cowley's walk."-D'ISRAELI.

4. SOLITUDE is a good fchool, but the world is the best theatre; the inftitution is