UT do these worlds display their beams, or guide

B Their orbs, we serve thy ay, to please thy pride?

Thyself but dust, thy stature but a span,
A moment thy duration, foolish Man!
As well may the minutest emmet say,
That Caucasus was rais'd to pave his way;
The snail, that Lebanon's extended wood
Was destin'd only for his walk and food :
The vilest Cockle, gaping on the coast
That rounds the ample seas, as well may boast,
The craggy rock projects above the sky,
That he in safety at its foot may lie;

And the whole Ocean's confluent waters swell,
Only to quench his thirst, or move and blanch his shell.
Man. Young.

R

HOW poor, how rich, how abject, how august,

How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!
How passing wonder He, who made him such!
Who centred in our make such strange extremes!
From diff'rent natures marvellously mixt,
Connexion exquisite of distant Worlds!
Distinguisht link in Being's endless chain!
Midway from nothing to the Deity!
A beam ethereal, sully'd, and absorpt!
Though sully'd and dishonour'd, still divine!
Dim miniature of greatness absolute!
An heir of Glory! a frail child of dust!
Helpless Immortal! Insect infinite!
A Worm! a God!

EADING maketh a full Man; Conference a ready and Writing an exact Man.

Man;

YONDEMN'D to sacrifice his childish years

To pass the riper period of his age
Acting his part upon a crowded stage;
To lasting toils expos'd and endless Cares,
To open dangers, and to secret snares;
To malice, which the vengeful Foe intends,
And the more dangerous Love of seeming Friends.

Navades a kindness, is not therefore kind:

OT always actions show the Man; we find

Perhaps Prosperity becalm'd his breast,
Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east :
Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat,

Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great :
Who combats bravely, is not therefore brave,
He dreads a Death-bed like the meanest slave:
Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,

His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies.

VAIN

AIN glorious Man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light winges, is lifted up to skye;

The scorne of Knighthood and trew Chevalrye,
To thinke, without desert of gentle deed,

And noble worth, to be advaunced hye,

Such Praise is shame; but Honour, Vertue's mecd,
Doth bear the fayrest flowere in honourable seed.
Man.-Pope.

A

the Nature's law

B Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw;

Some livelier plaything gives his Youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite;

Scarfs, Garters, Gold amuse his riper stage;
And beads and pray'r-books are the toys of age;
Pleas'd with this Bauble still, as that before;
Till tir'd he sleeps, and Life's poor play is o'er.
Man. Spenser.

So greatest and most glorious thing on ground

May often need the helpe of weaker hand;
So feeble is Man's state, and Life unsound,
That in assurance it may never stand,
Till it dissolved be from earthly Band.

Man. Steele.

MAN that is Temperate, Generous, Valiant, Chaste, Faithful, and Honest, may, at the same time, have Wit, Humour, Mirth, Good Breeding, and Gallantry. While he exerts these latter qualities, twenty occasions might be invented to show he is master of the other noble Virtues.

Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake-
Go, from the creatures thy instructions take:
Learn from the Birds what food the thickets yield;
Learn from the Beasts the physics of the field;
Thy arts of building from the Bee receive;
Learn of the Mole to plough, the Worm to weave;
Learn of the little Nautilus to sail,

Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving Gale.

HOWEVER we do praise ourselves,

Our Fancies are more Giddy and infirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,
Than Women's are.

L

ET business vex him, Avarice blind,

Let Doubt and Knowledge rack his mind,

Let Errour act, Opinion speak,

And Want afflict, and Sickness break,
And Anger burn, Dejection chill,
And Joy distract, and Sorrow kill,
Till arm'd by Care, and taught to mow,
Time draws the long destructive blow.

HE is but the counterfeit of a Man, who hath not tho

I

of a Man.

Be such a gostling to obey instinct; but stand,
As if a Man were Author of himself,

And knew no other kin.

TAKE it for a rule, that the natural, and not the acquired man, is the companion. Learning, wit, gal lantry, and Good-breeding, are all but subordinate qualities in society, and are of no value, but as they are subservient to Benevolence, and tend to a certain manner of being or appearing equal to the rest of the Company.

COM

YOMPLAISANCE renders a Superior amiable, an Equal agreeable, and an Inferior acceptable. It smooths distinction, sweetens conversation, and makes every one in the company pleased with himself. It produces Good Nature and mutual benevolence, encourages the timorous, soothes the turbulent, humanises the fierce, and distinguishes a society of civilized persons from a confusion of savages.

A

Manners.- La Bruyère.

MAN'S Worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

THE

HE true art of being agreeable, is to appear well pleased with all the Company, and rather to seem well entertained with them, than to bring entertainment to them. A man thus disposed, perhaps, may have not much Learning, nor any Wit; but if he has Common Sense and something friendly in his behaviour, it conciliates men's minds more than the brightest parts without this disposition: it is true indeed that we should not dissemble and flatter in company; but a man may be very agreeable, strictly consistent with Truth and Sincerity, by a prudent silence where he cannot concur, and a pleasing assent where he can. Now and then you meet with a person so exactly formed to please, that he will gain upon every one that hears or beholds him; this disposition is not merely the gift of Nature, but frequently the effect of much Knowledge of the world, and a com mand over the Passions.

Manners. Shakespeare. THOSE that are Good Manners at the Court are as ridiculous in the Country, as the Behaviour of the Country is most mockable at the Court.

I

a man makes me keep my Distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.

OU

You will, I believe, in general, ingratiate yourself with

others, still less by paying them too much Court than tro little.

YOOD-BREEDING is the result of much Good Sense,

sake of others, and with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.

A MAN'S own Good-breeding is the best security against

other people's Ill-manners.

Manners. · Addison.

NE may now know a man that never conversed in

O excess of Good-breeding. I polite

country Esquire shall make you as many bows in half an hour, as would serve a Courtier for a week. There is infinitely more to do about place and precedency in a meeting of Justices' wives, than in an assembly of Duchesses.

Manners. Cumberland.

THE happy gift of being agreeable seems to consist not

one, but in an assemblage of Talents, tending to communicate delight; and how many are there, who, by easy Manners, sweetness of Temper, and a variety of other undefinable qualities, possess the power of pleasing without any visible effort, without the aids of Wit, Wisdom, or Learning, nay, as it should seem, in their defiance; and this without appearing even to know that they possess it.

Manners.

Addison.

Tthe world without Good-nature, or something which

HERE is no society or conversation to be kept up in

must bear its appearance, and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-breeding.

Manners. Addison.

YOOD-BREEDING shows itself most, where to an

Gordinary Eye it appears the least.

Manners. South.

HAVE known men, grossly injured in their affairs,

injured in good Language, ruined in Caresses, and kissed while they were struck under the fifth Rib.