STRANGE is it, that our Bloods, Of Colour, Weight, and Heat, pour'd all together, Would quite confound distinction, yet stand off In differences so mighty.

Antiquity. · Colton.

IT has been observed that a Dwarf, standing on the

shoulders of a Giant, will see farther than the Giant himself; and the Moderns, standing on the vantage-ground of former discoveries, and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the Ancients themselves; for that alone is true Antiquity, which embraces the Antiquity of the World, and not that which would refer us back to a period when the World was young. But by whom is this true Antiquity enjoyed? Not by the Ancients, who did live in the infancy, but by the Moderns, who do live in the maturity of things.

Antiquity. Chesterfield.

I ransacking, Antiquariaw,

DO by no means advise you to throw away your Time,

unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times. Let blockheads read, what blockheads wrote.

Waway, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From

WHEN ancient Opinions and Rules of Life are taken

that moment we have no compass to govern us; nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.

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LL those things which are now held to be of the greatest Antiquity, were, at one time, new; and what we to-day hold up by Example, will rank hereafter as a Precedent.

Appearances. - La Rochefoucauld.

all the Professions every one affects a particular look

thought; so that it may be said the World is made up of Appearances.

Appearances. Shakespeare.

HE World is still deceived with Ornament.

Tin Law, what plea se tainted and corrupt,

But, being seasoned with a gracious Voice,
Obscures the Show of Evil? In Religion,
What damned Error, but some sober Brow
Will bless it, and approve it with a text,
Hiding the grossness with fair Ornament?
There is no Vice so simple, but assumes
Some mark of Virtue on its outward parts.
How many Cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules, and frowning Mars;
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk?
And these assume but Valour's excrement,
To render them redoubted. Look on Beauty,
And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
Which therein works a miracle in Nature,
Making them lightest that wear most of it:
So are those crisped snaky golden locks,
Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
Upon supposed Fairness, often known

To be the dowry of a second head,

The skull that bred them, in the sepulchre.
Thus Ornament is but the guiled shore

To the most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,

The seeming Truth which cunning Times put on
To entrap the wisest.

APPEARANCES to save his only care;

So things seem right, no matter what they are.
Appearances. Shakespeare.

THERE is a fair Behaviour in thee, Captain;
And though that Nature with a beauteous wall
Doth often close in pollution, yet of thee
I will believe, thou hast a Mind that suits

With this thy fair and outward Character.

You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your Conversation and Actions, from being supe rior, as well as inferior, to them.

B than ruined by to confident a security.

ETTER to be despised for too anxious apprehensions,

Argument. Butler.

IT is in vain

(I see) to argue 'gainst the grain,
Or like the stars, incline men to
What they're averse themselves to do;
For when disputes are wearied out,
'Tis int'rest still resolves the doubt.

THE enemy of Art is the enemy of Nature; Art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of Human Nature; and what Nature will he honour who honours not the Human?

THER

HE ordinary employment of Artifice is the mark of a petty Mind; and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place, uncovers himself in another.

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HERE is a certain artificial polish-a common-place vivacity acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau Monde, which, in the commerce of the World, supplies the place of a natural suavity and good humour, but is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of Character: by a kind of fashionable discipline, the Eye is taught to brighten, the Lip to smile, and the whole Countenance to emanate with the semblance of friendly Welcome, while the Bosom is unwarmed by a single Spark of genuine Kindness and good will.

WHATEVER natural Right Men may have to Free

W dom and Independency, it is manifest that some

Men have a natural Ascendency over others.

La Bruyère.

Iwith those only who are estimable.

Men wish to be held in Esteem, they must associate

who comes from the Kitchen smells of its Smoke;

HE who comes fee to to Sect has something of its Cant;

the College Air pursues the Student; and dry Inhumanity him who herds with literary Pedants.

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YHOOSE the company of your Superiors, whenever you can have it; that is the right and true Pride.

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SSOCIATE with Men of good Judgment: for Judg. ment is found in Conversation. And we make another Man's Judgment ours, by frequenting his Com pany.

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Associates.

Shakespeare.

THOU art noble; yet, I see,

Thy honourable Metal may be wrought
From that it is disposed. Therefore 'tis meet
That noble Minds keep ever with their Likes :
For who so firm, that cannot be seduced?

SSUMED Qualities may catch the Affections of some, but one must possess Qualities really good, to fix the Heart.

HE contemplation of Celestial Things will make a Man both peak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

THERE

Atheism. — Hare.

HERE is no being eloquent for Atheism. In that exhausted receiver the Mind cannot use its wings,the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

WHO

Atheism. - Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

HOEVER considers the Study of Anatomy, I be lieve, will never be an Atheist; the frame of Man's Body, and Coherence of his Parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest Miracle of Nature.

Authority. — Shakespeare.

Tled by the nose with gold.

HOUGH Authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft

How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser souls
To thy false seeming?

AUTHORITY bears a credent bulk,

That no particular scandal one can touch,
But it confounds the breather.

PEOPLE may be taken in once, who imagine that un

Author is greater in private life than other Men.

is a doubt whether Mankind are most indebted to

I those who, like Bacon and Butler, dig the gold froto

the mine of Literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility. For all the practical purposes of Life, Truth might as well be in a prison as in the folio of a Schoolman, and those who release her from her cobwebbed shelf, and teach her to live with Men, have the merit of liberating, if not of discovering her.

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Authors.

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Sir Egerton Brydges. UTHORS have not always the power or habit of throwing their talents into conversation. There are some very just and well-expressed observations on this point in Johnson's Life of Dryden, who was said not at all to answer in this respect the Character of his Genius. I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the Genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

Authors. Cowper.

NONE but an Author knows an Author's cares
Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.