Timidity. CONFESS that I am exceedingly timorous; for I dare not do an evil thing.-XENOPHANES. Titles. S Virtue is the most reasonable and genuine fource of Honour, we expect to find in titles an intimation of fome particular merit that should recommend men to the high stations which they poffefs. Holiness is ascribed to the Pope; Majefty to Kings; Serenity, or mildness of temper to Princes; Excellence or perfection to Ambaffadors; Grace to Archbishops; Honour to Peers; Worship or venerable behaviour to Magistrates; and Reverence, which is of the fame import as the former, to the inferior Clergy. The death-bed shows the emptiness of titles in a true light. A poor dispirited finner lies trembling under the apprehenfions of the state he R is entering on; and is afked by a grave attendant how his Holiness does? Another hears himself addreffed under the title of Highness or Excellency, who lies under fuch mean circumstances of mortality, as appear, almoft, a difgrace to human nature. Titles at fuch a time, look rather like infults and mockery than refpect. The truth is, Honours are not, in this world, under fufficient regulation; true quality is frequently neglected, virtue oppreffed and vice triumphant. The laft Day will rectify this disaster, and affign to every one a station suitable to the dignity of his character; ranks will then be adjufted and precedency fet right.-Addison. MAN over men 2. He made not Lord: fuch title to himself Tranfmigration of Science. CANNOT better compare the transmigrations of science and art, than to the circulation of the blood: and I foresee that they will one time or another forfake England France and Germany, and fettle among us, for many ages, to return into Greece, their first abode. -PETER THE GREAT. Tranflation. HOSOEVER wishes to tranflate a work faithfully, muft avoid rendering it literally, and muft not be tied down by the too anxious ftudy to adhere to the precise wording of the original. He should, on the contrary, feize upon the precife meaning of entire sentences, and then render that meaning in fuch phrases as are most in accordance with the idiom and genius of the language in which he is. writing.-MAIMONIDES. 2. No tranflation our own country ever yet produced, hath come up to that of the Old and New Teftament; and I am perfuaded that the tranflators of the Bible were mafters of an English ftyle much fitter for that work than any we fee in our present writings; the which is owing to the fimplicity that runs through the whole.-Ibid. Tranfubftantiation. OW is a Romanift prepared eafily to fwallow, not only against all probability, but even the clear evidence of his fenfes, the doctrine of tranfubftantiation ?-LOCKE. 2. THE fubftance of the body of Chrift was not everywhere feen, nor did it everywhere suffer death; everywhere it could not be entombed; it is not everywhere now, being exalted into Heaven.-DR. HOOKER. 3. CONSUBSTANTIATION,* and above all the Papistical doctrine of tranfubftantiation, or rather anthropophagy, for it deserves no better name, are irreconcileable, not only with reason and common fenfe, and the habits of mankind, but with the testimony of *The Lutherans hold confubftantiation; an error indeed, but not mortal.-J. M. Scripture, with the nature and end of a Sacrament, with the analogy of baptifm, with the ordinary forms of language, with the human nature of Chrift, and, finally, with the state of glory in which he is to remain till the day of Judgment.-MILTON. Travel. RAVEL in the younger fort is a part of education; in the elder a part of experience.-LORD BA CON. 2. HE that travelleth a country before he hath fome entry into the language, goeth to fchool, and not to travel.-Ibid. 3. IN thofe vernal feasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and fullenness against nature, not to go out and fee her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a perfuader to them* of studying much then, after two or three years * His pupils. |