CURSE. PRONOUNCED ON ADAM.

On Adam last thus judgment he pronounc'd: "Because thou hast hearken'd to the voice of thy wife, And eaten of the tree, concerning which

I charg'd thee, saying, 'Thou shalt not eat thereof:'
Curs'd is the ground for thy sake; thou in sorrow
Shalt eat thereof all the days of thy life;

Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth
Unbid; and thou shalt eat th' herb of the field.
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,
Till thou return unto the ground; for thou
Out of the ground wast taken: know thy birth,
For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return."-Milton,

DEATH. FANCY ADDS TO THE HORRORS OF.
Why start at death? where is he? death arriv❜d,
Is past; not come, or gone, he's never here.
Ere hope, sensation fails, black boding man
Receives, not suffers, death's tremendous blow.
The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the worm;
These are the bugbears of a winter's eve,
The terrors of the living, not the dead.
Imagination's fool, and error's wretch,

Man makes a death which nature never made;
Then on the point of his own fancy falls,

And feels a thousands deaths, in fearing one.-Young.

REPARATION. If thou hast done an injury to another, rather own than defend it. One way thou gainest forgiveness; the other thou doublest the wrong and reckoning.-Penn.

KNOWLEDGE. He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man's use rather than his own.-. -Ibid.

WIT.-Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast. Yet it must be confessed, that wit gives an edge to sense, and recommends it extremely.-Ibid.

AVARICE.-How vilely he has lost himself, that becomes a slave to his servant, and exalts him to the dignity of his maker! Gold is the god, the wife, the friend of the money-monger of the world.-Penn.

We should take all the care imaginable how we ereate enemies, it being one of the hardest things in the Christian religion, to behave ourselves as we ought to do towards them.-Palmer's Aphorisms.

EVENING.

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad;
Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale;
She all night long her amorous descant sung;
Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament
With vivid sapphires; Hesperus, that led
The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Rising in clouded majesty, at length

Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light,
And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.-Milton.

GAY. WHO RIGHTLY CALLED.

Whom call we gay? That honour has been long The boast of mere pretenders to the name.

The innocent are gay-the lark is gay,

That dries his feathers, saturate with dew,

Beneath the rosy cloud, while yet the beams
Of dayspring overshoot his humble nest.
The peasant too, a witness of his song,
Himself a songster, is as gay as he.
But save me from the gayety of those,

Whose headaches nail them to a noonday bed;
And save me too from theirs, whose haggard eyes
Flash desperation, and betray their pangs
For property stripp'd off by cruel chance;
From gayety that fills the bones with pain,

The mouth with blasphemy, the heart with wo.

F

Cowper.

RAILLERY.-As nothing is more provoking to some tempers than raillery, a prudent person will not always be satirically witty where he can, but only where he may without offence. For he will consider that the finest stroke of raillery is but a witticism; and that there is hardly any person so mean, whose good-will is not preferable to the pleasure of a horse-laugh.

The Dignity of Human Nature.

Sloth is the key to let in beggary.

The Scriptures are the most ancient of all writings extant the language in which they are written is now no more, and has not for two thousand years been in common use; and there is not a line of that language now in being, but what is contained in the sacred books.-Duncan Forbes's Works.

Ruling one's anger well, is not so good as preventing it.

Generosity is the daughter of Good Nature. She is very fair and lovely when under the tuition of Judgment and Reason, but when she escapes from her tutors and acts indiscriminately, according as her fancy allures her, she subjects herself, like her mother, to sneers, ridicule, and disdain.

The Connoisseur.

SOCIAL INTERCOURSE. From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments, the mind acquires new ideas; and by a frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigour.-Addison.

Men deride the self-conceit of power, but cringe to its injustice.

There are three persons whom you should never deceive, your physician, your confessor, and your lawyer.

Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow.

William Penn, the great legislator of the Quakers, had the success of a conqueror in establishing and defending his colony, among savage tribes, without ever drawing the sword; the goodness of the most benevolent ruler, in treating his subjects as his own children; and the tenderness of a universal father, who opened his arms to all mankind, without distinction of sect or party. In his republic it was not the religious creed, but personal merit, that entitled every member of society to the protection and emoluments of the state.-Essay on Toleration, by the Rov Arthur O'Leary.

A wise man knows his own ignorance-a fool thinks he knows every thing.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion which we give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them are they ruined too; wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad if it is ill, they will cure it; but if men be bad, let the government be ever so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

William Penn's Letters.

HOME. REGARD FOR.

In all my wand'rings round this world of care,
In all my grief, and God has given my share-
I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown,
Amidst these humble bow'rs to lay me down;
To husband out life's taper at the close,

And keep the flame from wasting my repose:
I still had hopes, for pride attends us still,
Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill,
Around my fire an evening group to draw,
And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;

And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,
Pants to the place from whence at first he flew,
I still had hopes, my long vexations past,
Here to return, and die at home at last.

O, blest retirement, friend to life's decline,
Retreat from care, that never must be mine!
How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labour with an age of ease;

Who quits a world where strong temptations try,
And, since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly !-Goldsmith.

CLING NOT TO EARTH.

Cling not to earth-there's nothing there,
However loved-however fair,

But on its features still must wear
The impress of mortality.

The

voyager on the boundless deep,
Within his barque may smile or sleep-
But bear him on-he will not weep
To leave its wild uncertainty.
Cling not to earth-as well we may
Trust Asia's serpent's wanton play,
That glitters only to betray

To death-or else to misery.
Dream not of Friendship-there may be
A word, a smile, a grasp for thee-
But wait the hour of need, and see-
But wonder not--their fallacy.
Think not of Beauty-like the rest
It bears a lustre on its crest-
But short the time ere stands confest
Its falsehood-or its frailty.