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choose a set of opinions for himself!! - | Psalm xii. 1. Ibid. p. 370.

"WHEN youth made me sanguine," says HORACE WALPOLE, "I hoped mankind might be set right. Now that I am very old, I sit down with this lazy maxim, that unless one could cure men of being fools, it is to no purpose to cure them of any folly; as it is only making room for some other."-PINKERTON's Correspondence, vol. 1, p. 91.

"SELF-INTEREST is thought to govern every man; yet is it possible to be less governed by self-interest than men are in the aggregate."-H. W. ibid.

FACTS "too big for oblivion," Ch. O'Conor. -Ibid. p. 129.

FRONTO said well, "it is a misfortune to live under an emperor, qui ne permet à personne de rien faire,' but a greater misfortune to live under a prince who allows every one to do whatever he pleases."BAYLE, vol. 6, p. 605, Xiphil. in Nerva.

"Furieusement laide. A Marchioness d'Ancre of shocking memory."-BAYLE.

AND what think you would happen, if your motions were to be carried? They would answer, as BAYLE has answered for them, "Ne soyez pas en peine sur cela, peu de gens nous prendront au mot."-Ibid. tom. 7, p. 86.

Psalm vii. 9.

"LET now wickedness bring the wicked

to an end."

"Let the wickedness of the ungodly come to an end."-Common Version.

Psalm xi. 3.

"WHEN the foundations are overturned, what can the righteous man do?"

"SAVE me, Jehovah, for the pious are coming to an end,

For the faithful are failing from among the children of men."

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wiser (I had almost said the better) for going a hundred or two of miles; and that the mind has more room in it than most people seem to think, if you will but furnish the apartments."-Ibid. p. 321.

munia noviter." Ibid. p. 31.

Thus it is that " ceux qui ont esté bestes par excellence, ont reputé tout le monde sot, excepté eux-mesmes."-Ibid. p. 57.

GREG. NAZIANZEN calls S. Basil " ύποTHE band of Condottieri in Parliament. φήτης τὸ Πνεύματος," an interpreter of the I thank Sir Richard Vyvyan for the word. Spirit. Hypophet as distinguished from prophet.

SHOW them " le grand tort et le petit esprit qu'ils ont en leurs maximes erronnées."-GARASSE, Doc. Cur. p. 21.

Good proof of good sense. "C'est de marcher son grand chemin, se tenir sur les opinions communes, les bien deffendre par des nouvelles pensées, τὰ καινὰ κοινῶς, καὶ

"Les Savańs ne sont susceptibles ni d'erreurs ni de préjugés!"-SALGUES.

" I PRAY God he may prove himself in

nocent.

"Justice. Fie! say not so. You show yourself to be no good commonwealth's man; for the more are hanged the better 'tis for the commonwealth." BEAUMONT |and FLETCHER, Coxcomb, p. 232.

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"Ye that fear the Lord, hope for good, and for everlasting joy and mercy." Ibid. 9. Thy sins also shall melt away, as the ice in the fair warm weather."-Ibid. iii. 15.

"Bind not one sin upon another; for in one thou shalt not be unpunished."-Ibid. vii. 8.

1 These texts for sermons, most of them, were written very early, they occur at the end of a Note Book for 1799. The last text of all is in dark fresh ink, and evidently shows the consolation derived by the lamented SOUTHEY from his every day study of the Bible.--J. W. W.

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"My son, glorify thy soul in meekness."

-Ibid. x. 28.

"Before man is life and death, and whether him liketh, shall be given him."-Ibid. xv. 17.

"BE not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil."-Proverbs iii. 7.

"In every good work, trust thy own soul: for this is the keeping of the commandments." Ecclesiasticus xxxii. 22.

"Whoso feareth the Lord, shall not fear nor be afraid, for He is his hope."--Ibid. xxxiv. 14.

"BRETHREN, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you; which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand."1 Cor. xv. 1.

"By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain."-Ibid. 2.

"As many as touched him were made whole."-MARK vi. last verse.

"What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them." - Ibid. xi. 24.

"THEN touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you. "And their eyes were opened."

Matthew ix. 29-30.

"Bur as for me, I will come into thine house, even upon the multitude of thy mercy." - Psalm v. 7.

" BLESSED are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."-Matthew v. 6.

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TEXTS FOR ENFORCEMENT.

THINK of the Lord with a good heart and in simplicity of heart seek him: For He will be found of them that tempt Him not, and sheweth himself unto such as do not distrust him."- Wisdom i. 1-2.

"For froward thoughts separate from God."-Ibid. 3.

"Seek not death in the error of your life; and pull not upon yourselves destruction with the works of your hands.

"For God made not death; neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. "For he created all things that they might have their being; and the generations of the world were healthful, and there is no poison of destruction in them.

"But ungodly men with their words and works called it to them."-Ibid. xii. 6.

"Wisdom is easily seen of them that love her: whoso seeketh her early shall have no great travail; for he shall find her sitting at his doors." - Ibid. vi. 12-14.

"And incorruption maketh us near unto God.

"Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.

"If your delight be then in thrones and sceptres, O ye kings of the people, honour wisdom, that ye may reign for evermore." - Ibid. 16.

"WORSHIP the Lord in the beauty of holiness." - Psalm xxix. 2.

"He that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about." - Ibid. xxxii. 10.

"Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee."-Ibid. xxxiii. 22.

"O taste, and see that the Lord is good : blessed is the man that trusteth in Him." -Ibid. xxxiv. 8.

"WHEREWITHAL a man sinneth, by the same also shall he be punished."-Wisdom

"She goeth about seeking such as are worthy of her. Sheweth herself favour-xi. 16. ably unto them in the ways, and meeteth them in every thought.

"For the very true beginning of her is the desire of discipline, and the care of discipline is love:

"And love is the keeping of her laws; and the giving heed unto her laws is the assurance of incorruption :

"For Thou lovest all the things that are, and abhorrest nothing which Thou hast made; for never wouldest Thou have made any thing, if Thou hadst hated it.

"And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been Thy will? or been preserved, if not called by Thee?

"But Thou sparest all: for they are

Thine, O Lord, Thou lover of souls." Ibid. xxiv. 6.

"My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living God: When shall I come to appear before the presence of God ?"-Ibid. xlii. 2.

"Bur executing Thy judgments upon them by little and little, Thou gavest them place for repentance." - Wisdom xii. 10.

" Wherefore, whereas men have lived dissolutely and unrighteously, Thou hast tormented them with their own abominations." Ibid. 23.

" Yea, to know Thy power is the root of immortality."-Ibid. xiv. 3.

"His heart is ashes; his hope is more vile than earth, and his life of less value than clay:

"Forasmuch as he knew not his Maker, and Him that inspired into him an active soul, and breathed in a living spirit."-Ibid.

10-11.

"But they counted our life a pastime, and our time here a market for gain; for, say they, we must be getting every way, though it be by evil means."-Ibid. 12.

"MYSTERIES are revealed unto the meek." -Ecclesiasticus iii. 19.

"Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

"But what is commanded thee, think thereupon with reverence." -Ibid. 21.

"A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last, and he that loveth danger shall perish therein."-Ibid. 26.

"In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy: for the plant of wickedness hath taken root in him."-Ibid. 28.

"He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom."-Ibid. xxi. 11.

"LET not mercy and truth forsake thee : bind them about thy neck: write them upon the table of thine heart." - Proverbs iii. 3.

"Ir any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know."-1 Corinthians viii. 2.

"Now the end of the commandment is charity; out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned." 1 Timothy i. 5.

"For we which have believed, do enter into rest." - Hebrews iv. 3.

"THE kingdom of God cometh not with observation. Neither shall they say, Lo here! or Lo there! for behold the kingdom of God is within you." - Luke xvii. 21-2.

Into that kingdom he who will, may enter; and begin his Heaven on earth.

"JESUS said unto them, if ye were blind, ye should have no sin: But now ye say, We see: therefore your sin remaineth."John ix. last verse.

"AND now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

"To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes which I command thee this

day, for thy good?"-Deuteronomy x. 12-13.

"- To be spiritually minded is life and peace."-Romans viii. 6.

"SAY ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.

"Woe unto the wicked, it shall be ill with him; for the reward of his hands shall be given him." - Isaiah iii. 10-11.

"BE not afraid; only believe."-Mark

ν. 36.

"Bur ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee :

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COURTEOUS READER! No man living can quote those lines with a fuller sense of their reality than myself! -Though I have lived amongst men sharp as Mechi's razors, or a January frost, or the spikes of English bayonets,-yet cognizant as I am with every day life, and practical in my habits and my ways, I am a "Clerke of Oxenforde" withal, and a scholar, such as the puny scholars of these days are ! And, therefore, I lament to find that many errors in these volumes have escaped my notice, even after close and hard labour, and thick thinking too! But, when I state this, I think it right to add, that no research, no looking into libraries, no correspondence with learned men, no labour on my own part, has been spared. Every sheet has taken up more hours in a day than are easily found, and the making good a single reference has often made night and morning closer acquaintances than is good either for sight or health! Therefore, COURTEOUS READER, look gently upon confessed errors, and, of thy candour, LEARNED CRITIC, correct them for me, and thou shalt have thanks, the truest, the most unreserved! Ye will not have half the pleasure in correcting, I shall have in learning !

One word more, at parting, on the excellently learned Collector of these Volumes. William Chamberlayne, in the Epistle Dedicatory to his Pharonnida, speaks, in his own quaint language, of "eternizing a name, more from the lasting liniaments of learning, than those vain Phainomena of Pleasure, which are the delight of more vulgar spirits;" and such was the continued onsight of SOUTHEY. He held his learning as a gift, and as a talent to be accounted for, and he laboured for the benefit of others, their moral and religious benefit, -as long as the day lasted, and before

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