men, FAITH could have no value, as we could not help believing; and if He never revealed himself, there could hardly be fuch a thing as faith.-PASCAL.

Falfe Conclufions.

ROM fallacious foundations and mifapprehended mediums, men erect conclufions no way inferible from the premifes.-SIR THO

MAS BROWNE.

Farce.

FARCE is that in Poetry, which grotefque (caricature) is in Painting. The perfons and actions of a Farce are all unnatural and the

manners false; that is, inconfiftent with the characters of mankind; and grotefque painting is the juft refemblance of this.-DRY

DEN.

Fate.

HE forbearance of God allows demons ftill to afflict the virtuous, like the poifoned Socrates, and beftow profperity on the vicious, like Epicurus and Sardanapalus. This muft not be ascribed to Fate, as the Stoics do, for Fate would deftroy volition; but angels and men have Free-will, may do right or wrong, therefore the wrong-doer will be punished at laft. The very Stoics inculcate moral precepts, which implies Free-will in the difciples.-JUSTIN MARTYR.

Felicity of Man.

O confpicuous and refulgent a truth is that of God's being the author of Man's felicity, that the difpute is not fo much the matter of the thing, as concerning the manner of it.-The HON. ROBERT BOYLE.

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Fellowship.

OD having defigned man for a fociable creature, made him not only with an inclination and under the neceffity to have fellowfhip with those of his own kind, but furnished him alfo with language, which was to be the great inftrument and cementer of society.— LOCKE.

female:

Female Rhymes.

OUBLE rhymes are fo called, because in French, from which the term is taken, they end in e weak or feminine.

These rhymes are

Th' excefs of heat is but a fable;

We know the torrid zone is now found habitable. COWLEY.

2. FEMALE rhymes are in ufe with the Italians in every line, with the Spaniards promifcuously, and with the French alternately; as appears from the Alarique, the Pucelle, or any of their later poems.-DRYDEN.

Fickleness.

NSTABILITY of temper ought to be checked when it difpofes men to wander from one scheme to another; fince fuch a ficklenefs cannot but be attended with fatal confequences.-ADDISON.

Fiction.

ICTION is the effence of Poetry, as well as of painting; there is a refemblance in one, of human bodies, things and actions, which are not real; and in the other of a true ftory by a fiction.-DRYDEN.

The Firmament.

HE ALMIGHTY whofe hieroglyphical characters are the unnumbered stars, fun and moon, written on these large volumes of the firmament.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

2. WHAT an immeasurable space is the Firmament, wherein a great number of stars are seen with our naked eye, and many more discovered with our glaffes.-DErham's Aftro-Theology.

3. LET us caft our eyes up to the Firmament, where the rich handy-work of God presents itself to our fight, and ask ourselves fome fuch questions as these. What power built over our heads this vaft magnificent arch, and spread out the Heavens like a curtain? Who garnished these Heavens with fuch a variety of fhining objects, a thousand and ten thousand times ten thousand different stars, new funs, new moons, new worlds, in comparison with which, this earth of ours is but a point, all regular in their motions and swimming in their liquid ether? Who painted the clouds with fuch a variety of colours, and in fuch diverfity of fhades and figures, as is not in the power of the finest pencil to emulate? Who formed the fun of fuch a determinate fize and placed it at fuch a convenient distance, as not to annoy, but only to refresh us, and nourish the ground