Wit.

IT, as it implies a certain uncommon reach and vivacity of thought, is an excellent talent, very fit to be employed in the fearch of Truth, and very capable of affifting to difcern and embrace it. BISHOP BUR

NET.

2. WIT lying moft in the affemblage of ideas, and putting thofe together with quickness and variety, whereto can be found any refemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy. Judgment, on the contrary, lies in separating carefully one from another, ideas where can be found the leaft difference, thereby to avoid being misled by fimilitude.-LOCKE.

3. THE definition of Wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words: or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the fubject.-DRYDEN.

4. WHERE there is a real ftock of Wit, the wittieft fayings will yet be found in a

great measure, the iffues of chance. — DR. SOUTH.

5. WIT is like the engraver's burine, or the corrodings of aquafortis, which engrave and indent the characters fo that they can never be effaced.-ESSAY ON THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE.

Witty Men.

ITHOUT the fubordinate good qualities of natural good-fenfe, good-nature and difcretion, a man of wit and learning would be painful to the generality of mankind, instead of being pleafing. Witty men are apt to imagine they are agreeable as fuch, and by that means grow the worst companions imaginable. They deride the abfent or rally the present in a wrong manner; not knowing that if you pinch or tickle a man till he is uneafy in his feat, or ungracefully diftinguished from the reft of the company, you equally hurt him.-ADDISON.

Women.

HE corruption of the world indulges women in great vanity; and mankind feem to confider them in no other view than as painted idols, that are to allure and gratify their paffions.-BISHOP LAW.

2. WOMEN are soft, mild, pitiful and

flexible.-SHAKSPEARE.

3. WOMEN in their nature are much more gay and joyous than men; whether it be that their blood is more refined, their fibres more delicate and their animal fpirits more light; vivacity is the gift of women, gravity of men. ADDISON.

4. MEN have knowledge and strength to fit them for action: Women affection, for their better compliance; and herewith beauty to compensate for their fubjection, by giving them an equivalent regency over men.

GREW.

Words.

conceptions are the images of things to the mind within itself, fo are words or names the marks of those conceptions, to the minds of them we converfe with.-DR. SOUTH.

Words v. Things.

HOUGH a linguift fhould pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into; yet, if he had not ftudied the folid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing fo much to be efteemed a learned man as any yeoman competently wife in his mother dialect only.

MILTON.

Words uttered in Affliction.

O not accufe a man, for what he utters in affliction. MAIMO

NIDES.

Work.

LL the world is perpetually at work, only that our poor mortal lives fhould pass the happier for that little time we poffefs them, or else end the better when we lose them. Upon this occafion riches came to be coveted, honours efteemed, friendship pursued and virtues admired.-SIR WILLIAM TEM

PLE.

Worship.

MIRST worship God; he that forgets to pray,

Bids not himself good-morrow, nor good-day.

THOMAS RANDOLPH. 2. THE law of nature teacheth that the true and living God ought to be worshipped, and that a fufficient and convenient time is to be fet apart for the fame. THOMAS