Shakespeare.

A MAN, whose blood

Is very Snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense;
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
With profits of the mind, Study and Fast.
Recreation. Saville.

IVERSIONS are the most properly applied, to ease

D'and relieve those who are oppressed, by being too

much employed. Those that are idle have no need of them, and yet they, above all others, give themselves up to them. To unbend our Thoughts, when they are too much stretched by our Cares, is not more natural than it is necessary; but to turn our whole Life into a holiday, is not only ridiculous, but destroyeth Pleasure instead of promoting it.

Refinement.

Greville.

TRUE Delicacy, as true Generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself, if I may be allowed the expression, than to itself.

Refinement. La Bruyère.

THE most delicate, the most sensible of all Pleasures,

consists in promoting the pleasures of others.

THERE

Refinement. Greville.

seems to be something satisfactory resulting from every defect in Human Nature! and it is in that satisfaction, methinks, that all the endearing refinements of Society consist; there are a thousand little and undefinable Delicacies in our conversation, our looks, and even Gestures arising from these Defects, which mutually require to be understood and returned; nay, there are little indulgences due to these Defects, which the well disposed and well conceiving Mind feels a want to bestow as well as to receive, and will be uneasy and dissatisfied till an opportunity offers to do it; and hence that first of Concerts, the play and harmony of according Minds!

refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as novelty,

nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of Mankind.

ENGLAND!-model to thy inward greatness,
Like little body with a mighty Heart,

What might'st thou do, that Honour would thee do,
Were all thy children kind and natural!

H

Reform. Lavater.

[E who reforms himself, has done more towards reforming the Public, than a crowd of noisy, impotent Patriots.

HARLES FOX said that Restorations were the most

C Revolutions, might have

that Reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

Regret.

THAT! old Acquaintance! could not all this flesh
Keep in a little life?

W

Poor Jack, farewell!

I could have better spar'd a better man.

WER

Religion. Burke.

know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that

Religion is the basis of civil Society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of Superstition with which the accumulated absurdity of the human mind might have crusted it over in the course of ages, that ninety-nine in a hundred of the people of England would not prefer to Impiety.

Religion. Hare.

WORDSWORTH has told us the law of his own

mind, the fulfilment of which has enabled him to reveal a new world of poetry: "Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop than when we soar." That it is so likewise in Religion, we are assured by those most com. fortable words, "Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

UNI

[NLESS Christianity be viewed and felt in a high and comprehensive way, how large a portion of our intellectual and moral Nature does it leave without Object and Action!

CH

HARLES the Fourth, after his abdication, amused himself, in his retirement at St. Juste, by attempting to make a number of watches go exactly together. Being constantly foiled in this attempt, he exclaimed, "What a fool have I been to neglect my own concerns, and to waste my whole Life in a vain attempt to make all men think alike on matters of Religion, when I cannot even make a few Watches keep time together."

PLACE

LACE not thy amendment only in increasing thy Devotion, but in bettering thy Life. This is the damning Hypocrisy of this age; that it slights all good Morality, and spends its Zeal in matters of Ceremony, and a form of Godliness without the Power of it.

RUTH, like a stately dame, will not be seen, nor show

standing upon an ordinary Courtship or Address. Long and tedious attendances must be given, and the hardest fatigues endured and digested: nor did ever the most pregnant Wit in the world bring forth anything great, lasting, and considerable, without some Pain and Travail, some Pangs and Throes before the delivery. Now all this that I have said is to show the force of diligence in the investigation of Truth, and particularly of the noblest of all Truths, which is that of Religion.

Religion. S. T. Coleridge.

You may depend upon it, Religion is, in its essence,

the most gentlemanly thing in the World. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the Army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of Manners.

MANY the mean, when they talk of La

ANY people make their own God; and he is much

bon Dieu, very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want any thing, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an Idol as if he were an image of stone.

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ELIGION, like its votaries, while it exists on Earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A Religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but Men are compound animals; and the body too often iords it over the Mind.

THE

more Honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a Saint.

Religion. Colton.

PHILOSOPHY is a bully that talks very loud when

the danger is at a distance; but the moment she is hard pressed by the Enemy, she is not to be found at her post, but leaves the brunt of the Battle to be borne by hier humbler but steadier comrade Religion.

Religion. · Anon.

Rofit. But what whol The Living whole, to be

ELIGION is the whole Bible: Sects pick out a part

sure-not the Dead whole: THE SPIRIT! not the letter.

Religion.

a man is not rising upwards to be an Angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a Devil. He cannot stop at the Beast. The most savage of men are not Beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

H' towards the being a Good Christian, wheresoever he

that is a Good Man, is three-quarters of his way

lives, or whatsoever he is called.

Religion. S. T. Coleridge.

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IF you bring up your children in a way which puts them out of sympathy with the Religious feelings of the Nation in which they live, the chances are, that they will ultimately turn out Ruffians or Fanatics, and one as likely as the other.

ET it not be imagined that the Life of a good Christian must necessarily be a Life of Melancholy and Gloomi. ness; for he only resigns some Pleasures, to enjoy others infinitely greater.

THE THEY that cry down Moral Honesty, cry down that which is a great part of my Religion-my Duty towards God, and my Duty towards Man. What care I to see a man run after a sermon, if he cozens and cheats as soon as he comes home? On the other side, Morality must not be without Religion; for if so, it may change, as I see convenience. Religion must govern it.

I

CANNOT but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to his Laws, has annexed a present, as well as future reward to a Good Life; and has so interwoven our Duty and Happiness together, that while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are, at the same time, making the best provision for the other.

L

IKE every other power, Religion too, in widening her empire, may impair her sway. It has been seen too often, both in Philosophy and elsewhere, that when people have fancied that the world was becoming Christian, Christianity was in fact becoming worldly.

WH

Religion. Anon.

HEN a man is told that the whole of Religion and Morality is summed up in the two Commandments, to love God, and to love our neighbour, he is ready to cry, like Charoba in Gebir, at the first sight of the Sea, "Is this the mighty Ocean? is this all?" Yes! all: but how small a part of it do your eyes survey! only trust yourself to it; launch out upon it; sail abroad over it: you will find it has no end: it will carry you round the World.

Religion. Fuller.

M what they do all the Week after.

EASURE not Men by Sundays, without regarding

Religion. Colton.

HERE can be no Christianity where there is no Charity,

Tbut the censorious cultivate the forms of Religion, that

they may more freely indulge in the only pleasure of their lives, that of calumniating those who to their other failings add not the Sin of Hypocrisy.