Caufe and Effect.

S we use to deny the effect to the inftrumental caufe, and attribute it to the principal in the manner

of speaking, when our purpose is to affirm a thing to be the principal and of chief influence-fo we fay, it is not the good lute but the good hand that makes the mufic; it is not the body but the foul that is the man, and yet he is not the man without both.-JEREMY TAYLOR.

Chance.

HE adequate meaning of Chance, as diftinguished from Fortune, is, that the latter is understood to befall only rational agents, but Chance to be among inanimate bodies. Chance is but a mere name, and really nothing in itself; a conception in our minds, and only a compendious way of speaking, whereby we would exprefs, that fuch effects as are commonly attributed to chance, were

verily produced by their true and proper. caufes, but without the defign to produce them.-DR. BENTLEY.

Charity, (Riches of)

E hath riches fufficient, who hath enough to be charitable. SIR THOMAS BROWNE.

Charity Sermons.

E that giveth to the poor, lendeth to the Lord," faith the Royal Sage of Judah. There is more rhetoric in that one fentence, than in a library of Sermons; and indeed if those sentences were understood by the reader with the fame emphafis as they were delivered by the author, we needed not those volumes of inftructions, but might be honest by an epitome.-Ibid.

2. As for our Sermons, be they never fo found and perfect, God's word they are not, as the fermons of the prophets were; no, they are but ambiguously termed his word,

because His Word is commonly the fubject whereof they treat, and must be the rule whereby they are framed.-HOOKER.

Chatham's Eloquence.

WORD CHATHAM'S eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative, as well as the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and uttered with fuch energy of diction and with fuch dignity of action and countenance, that he intimidated those who were the most willing and the most able to encounter him. Their arms fell out of their hands, and they shrunk under the afcendant which his genius gained over theirs.-LORD CHESTERFIELD.

Cheerfulness v. Mirth.

HAVE always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I confider as an act, the former as a habit of the mind. Mirth is fhort and tranfient, cheerfulness fixed and

permanent. Those are often raised into the greatest transports of mirth, who are subject to the greateft depreffions of melancholy; on the contrary, cheerfulness, though it does not give the mind fuch an exquifite gladnefs, prevents us from falling into any depths of Sorrow. Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual ferenity. Cheerfulness bears the fame friendly regard to the mind as to the body; it banishes all anxious care and difcontent; foothes and compofes the paffions and keeps them in a perpetual calm.-ADDISON.

Choice of Counfellers.

EWARE of a counfeller, and know before what use there is of him; for he will counsel for himself; left he caft the lot upon thee, and

fay unto thee, thy way is good and afterwards he ftand on the other fide, to fee what

fhall befall thee. Confult not with one that fufpecteth thee: and hide thy counsel from such as envy thee. Neither confult with a woman touching her of whom she is jealous; neither with a coward in matters of war; nor with a merchant concerning exchange; nor with a buyer of felling; nor with an envious man of thankfulness; nor with an unmerciful man touching kindness; nor with the flothful for any work; nor with an hireling for a year, of finishing work; nor with an idle fervant of much bufinefs: hearken not unto these in any matter of counsel. JESUS BEN SIRACH.

Chriftian Fortitude.

HE fortitude of a Chriftian confifts in patience; not in enterprizes which the poets call Heroic, and which are commonly the ef

fects of intereft, pride and worldly honour. -DRYDEN.