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than from real life, and it is inconceivable how ideas once adopted, continue to be propagated.-CHARLES GOTTLOB KUÏTTNER.

2. NOT long ago the map of the world, in China, was a fquare plate, the greater part of which was occupied by the provinces of that vaft empire, leaving on its skirts a few obfcure corners, into which the wretched remainder of mankind were supposed to be driven. If you have not the use of our letters, nor the knowledge of our books, faid a Mandarin to an European Miffionary, what literature or what science can you have?- DR. ADAM FERGUSON.

Bravery.

BRAVE man is clear in his difcourse, and keeps close to Truth. -ARISTOTLE.

2. IT denotes no great bravery of mind to do that out of a defire of fame, which we could not be prompted to by a generous paffion for the glory of Him that made us.-ADDISON.

The British Monarchy.

S long as the British Monarchy, not more limited than fenced by the orders of the State, fhall, like

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the proud Keep of Windsor, rifing with majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and co-eval towers, as long as this awful ftructure shall overfee and guard the protected land; so long will the British conftitution laft. They who are convinced of this, His (He who gave our nature to be perfected by our virtue) will, which is the Law of laws and the Sovereign of fovereigns, cannot think it reprehenfible that this our corporate fealty and homage, this our recognition of a Seignory Paramount,

MR. BURKE had evidently in his mind, the faying of the Anglo-Saxon pilgrims who visited Rome in the eighth century, "Quamdiu ftabit Coloffeus ftabat Roma, quando cadet Coloffeus cadet et Roma; quando cadet Roma, cadet et Mundus." The first part of which is thus rendered by a modern poet : "While stands the Coloffeum, Rome shall

ftand."-Ed.

I had almoft faid this oblation of the State itself, as a worthy offering on the high altar of univerfal praife, fhould be performed, as all Public folemn acts are performed, in Buildings, in Mufic, in Decorations, in Oratory, in dignity of Perfons, according to the customs of mankind; taught by their nature, that it is with modeft fplendour, with unaffuming state, with mild majesty and sober pomp. For those purposes, some part of the wealth of the country is as ufefully employed, as it can be in forwarding the luxury of individuals. It is the public ornament, it is the public confolation, it nourishes the public hope. The pooreft man finds his own importance and dignity in it, whilst the wealth and pride of individuals at every moment makes the man of humble rank and fortune fenfible of his inferiority, and degrades and vilifies his condition.-BURKE.

Brotherhood.

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O it be a right to Govern, whether you call it Supreme Fatherhood, or Supreme Brotherhood, will be all one, provided we know who

has it.-LOCKE.

The Bufinefs of a Scholar.

O talk in private, to think in folitude, to inquire or to answer inquiries, is the bufinefs of a scholar. He wanders about the world with

out pomp or terror; and is neither known nor valued but by men like himself. - DR. JOHNSON.

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Calumny.

E that lends an eafy and credulous ear to calumny, is either a man of very ill morals, or has no more fenfe and understanding than a child.-MENANDER.

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Caftles in the Air.

KN all affemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may obferve this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philofopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air. But whatever practice and reputation these kind of ftructures have formerly poffeffed, or may ftill continue in, not excepting even that of Socrates when he was fufpended in a basket to help contemplation; I think, with due fubmiffion, they feem to labour under two inconveniences. First, that the foundations being laid too high, they have been often out of fight, and ever out of hearing. Secondly, that the materials being very tranfitory, have fuffered much from the inclemencies of air, particularly in these north-weft regions.-SWIFT.

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