time of fins fhow repentance; let nothing hinder thee to pay thy vows in due time, and defer not until death to be juftified." JEREMY TAYLOR.

Superftition.

HERE is fuperftition in fhunning fuperftition, and he that difdains to follow Religion in the open and trodden path, may chance to lofe his way in the tracklefs wilds of experiment or in the obfcure labyrinths of speculation.-LORD BACON.

Sufpicion.

USPICION difpofes kings to Tyranny and husbands to Jealoufy. -LORD BACON.

2. SUSPICIONS among thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly to twilight; they are to be repreffed, or, at leaft, well-guarded, for they cloud the mind.

Swearing.

F all men a philofopher should be no fwearer; for an oath, which is the end of controverfies in law, cannot determine any here, where Reason only muft induce. SIR THOMAS BROWNE.

2. TAKE not His name, who made thy tongue, in vain

It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse.

HERBERT, Earl of Pembroke.

Talents misplaced.

AINLY is wit lavished upon fugitive topics; little can Architecture fecure duration if the ground is falfe.-DR. JOHNSON.

Talk.

OW cometh it to pafs, that Cæfar's and Cicero's Talk is fo natural and plain, and Salluft's writing fo artificial and dark, when all three

lived at one time? I will freely tell you my fancy herein. Surely Cæfar and Cicero, beside a fingular prerogative of natural eloquence given unto them by God; both two, by ufe of life, were daily orators among the common people, and greatest counsellors in the Senate-house; and therefore gave themfelves to use fuch speeches as the meanest should well understand, and the wifest best allow following carefully that good counsel of Ariftotle, Loquendum ad multi, fapiendum ut pauci.-ROGER ASCHAM.

2. IT is a difficult thing to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perfpicuity into our difcourfes.-JEREMY COLLIER.

Temperance.

EWARE of fuch food as perfuades a man, though he be not hungry, to eat them; and thofe liquors that will prevail with a man to drink them, when he is not thirsty. - So

CRATES.

2. MAKE Temperance thy companion, fo shall health fit on thy brow.-DODSLEY. OBSERVE

3. The rule of not too much; by temperance

taught

In what thou eat'ft and drink'ft; seeking from thence

Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight.MILTON.

4. TEMPERANCE, that virtue without pride and fortune without envy, gives health of body and tranquillity of mind; the best guardian of youth and fupport of old age. — SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE.

5. TEMPERANCE keeps the senses clear and unembarraffed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the perfon; it gives you the command of your head, fecures your health and preferves you in a condition for business. -JEREMY COLLIER.

lived at one time? I will freely tell you my fancy herein. Surely Cæfar and Cicero, befide a fingular prerogative of natural eloquence given unto them by God; both two, by ufe of life, were daily orators among the common people, and greatest counsellors in the Senate-house; and therefore gave themfelves to use fuch fpeeches as the meanest should well understand, and the wisest best allow following carefully that good counsel of Ariftotle, Loquendum ad multi, fapiendum ut pauci.-ROGER ASCHAM.

2. IT is a difficult thing to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perfpicuity into our difcourfes.-JEREMY COLLIER.

Temperance.

EWARE of fuch food as perfuades a man, though he be not hungry, to eat them; and thofe liquors that will prevail with a man_to drink them, when he is not thirsty. - So

CRATES.