him continually while I have life. - EPIC

TETUS.

3. "KNOW ye not that ye are the Temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth "*-ST. PAUL.

in you.

4. MOST facrilegious murther hath broke

ope,

The Lord's anointed Temple, and ftole thence

The life o' th' Building.-SHAKSPEARE.

Temporal Ends.

ALL not every temporal end a defiling of the intention, but only when it contradicts the ends of God, or when it is principally intended; for fometimes a temporal end is part of our duty; and fuch are all the actions of our calling.-JEREMY TAYLOR.

The number Ten.

EN hath been extolled as containing even, odd, long and plain, quadrate and cubical numbers; and Ariftotle obferved, that Barbarians as well as Greeks used a numeration unto ten.-SIR THOMAS BROWN.

Thought.

HOUGHT, if translated truly, I cannot be loft in another language; but the words that convey it to our apprehenfion, which are the image and ornament of that thought, may be fo ill-chosen as to make it appear unhandfome.-DRYDEN.

2. ONE may often find as much thought on the reverfe of a medal as in a canto of Spenter.-ADDISON.

Time.

IME is like a river, in which metals and folid fubftances are funk, while chaff and ftraws fwim upon the furface.-LORD BACON.

2. TIME, which confifteth of parts, can be no part of infinite duration or of eternity; for then there would be an infinite time past to-day, which to-morrow would be more than infinite. Time is one thing and infinite duration is another.-GREW.

3. THIS confideration of duration, as set out by certain periods, and marked by certain measures or epochs, is that which moft properly we call Time.-LOCKE.

4. We may gain the idea of Time or duration, by reflecting on that train of thoughts which fucceed one another in our minds. That for this reason, when we fleep foundly without dreaming, we have no perception of time or of the length of it whilft we fleep; and that the moment wherein we leave off to think till the moment we begin to think again, feems to have no diftance. And fo I

doubt not but it would be to a waking man, if it were poffible for him to keep only one idea in his mind without variation and the fucceffion of others: and we see that one who fixes his thoughts very intently on one thing fo as to take but little notice of the fucceffion of ideas that pafs in his mind whilst he is taken up with that earnest contemplation, lets flip out of his account a good part of that duration, and thinks that time fhorter than it is.-Ibid.

5. THE answer to one who asked, What is Time? was, fi non rogas intelligo; that is, the more I think of Time the less I underftand it, might perfuade one that Time which reveals all other things, is itself not to be difcovered.-Ibid.

6. It is poffible that some creatures may think half an hour as long as a thousand years; or look upon that space of duration, which we call a minute, as an hour, a week, a month, or a whole age. PERE MALE

BRANCHE.

Timidity.

CONFESS that I am exceedingly timorous; for I dare not do an evil thing.-XEnophanes.

Titles.

S Virtue is the most reasonable and genuine fource of Honour, we expect to find in titles an intima

tion of some particular merit that fhould recommend men to the high stations which they poffefs. Holiness is afcribed to the Pope; Majefty to Kings; Serenity, or mildness of temper to Princes; Excellence or perfection to Ambaffadors; Grace to Archbishops; Honour to Peers; Worship or venerable behaviour to Magistrates; and Reverence, which is of the fame import as the former, to the inferior Clergy. The death-bed shows the emptiness of titles in a true light. A poor difpirited finner lies trembling under the apprehenfions of the ftate he

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