a road, like a highwayman, and yet they will never arrive at wit enough to avoid it; for it is done upon surprise : and as thieves are commonly better mounted than those they rob, he very easily makes his escapes, and flies beyond pursuit, and there is no possibility of overtaking him. -Butler.

CLXXV. 175

It is notorious to philosophers, that joy and grief can hasten and delay time. Locke is of opinion, that a man in great misery may so far lose his measure, as to think a minute an hour; or in joy make an hour a minute.Tatler.

CLXXVI. /

Indolence is a kind of centripetal force.-Shenstone.

CLXXVII.

77.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is infected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.-Cicero.

CLXXVIII. /78

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one, or the admonitions of the others.-Diogenes.

CLXXIX. /a

He who has opportunities to inspect the sacred moments of elevated minds, and seizes none, is a son of dulness; but he who turns those moments into ridicule will betray with a kiss, and in embracing, murder.—Lavater.

CLXXX.

What but miracles can serve

80

So great a madness to preserve,

As his, that ventures goods and chatte!s
(Where there's no quarter giv'n) in battles,
And fights with money bags as bold,
As men with sandbags did of old;

Puts lands, and tenements, and stocks,
Into a paltry juggler's box;

And, like an alderman of Gotham,
Embarketh in so vile a bottom;
Engages blind and senseless hap

'Gainst high, and low, and slur, and knap,
(As Tartars with a man of straw
Encounter lion's hand to paw)

With those that never venture more
Than they 'ad safely ensur'd before;
Who, when they knock the box and shake,
Do, like the Indian rattlesnake,
But strive to ruin and destroy
Those that mistake it for fair play:
That have their fulhams at command,
Brought up to do their feats at hand;
That understand their calls and knocks,
And how to place themselves i' th' box;
Can tell the oddses of all games,
And when to answer to their names;
And, when he conjures them t' appear,
Like imps are ready every where;
When to play foul, and when run fair
(Out of design) upon the square,
And let the greedy cully win,
Only to draw him further in.

Butler-on Gaming.

CLXXXI./8/

The proverb ought to run, "A fool and his words are soon parted; a man of genius and his money."-Shen

stone.

CLXXXII./82

Melancholy discloses its symptoms according to the sentiments and passions of the minds it affects. An ambitious man fancies himself a lord, statesman, minister, king, emperor, or monarch, and pleases his mind with the vain hopes of even future preferment. The mind of a covetous man sees nothing but his re or spe, and looks at the most valuable objects with an eye of hope, or with

the fond conceit that they are already his own. A lovesick brain adores, in romantic strains, the lovely idol of his heart, or sighs in real misery at her fancied frowns. And a scholar's mind evaporates in the fumes of imaginary praise and literary distinction.-Burton.

CLXXXIII. 183

Fire burns only when we are near it; but a beautiful face burns and inflames, tho' at a distance.-Xenophon. CLXXXIV. / 84

Could we look into the mind of a female gamester, we should see it full of nothing but trumps and mattadores. Her slumbers are haunted with kings, queens, and knaves. The day lies heavy upon her till the play-season returns, when for half a dozen hours together all her faculties are employed in shuffling, cutting, dealing, and sorting out a pack of cards, and no ideas to be discovered in a soul which calls itself rational, excepting little square figures of painted and spotted paper.-Guardian.

CLXXXV. 185

Come, come, sweet love!
Do not in vain adorn

Beauty's grace, that should rise

Like to the naked moru.

Lilies on the river's side,

And fair Cyprian flow'rs newly blown,

Ask no beauties but their own.

Ornament is nurse of pride.

From England's Helicon. CLXXXVI. /86

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must be always doing, or suffering.-Zimmerman.

CLXXXVII.

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Every county of Great Britain has one hundred or more of fox hunters, who roar instead of speaking; therefore, if it be true, that we women are also given to a greater fluency of words than is necessary, sure she that

disturbs but a room or a family, is more to be tolerated than one who draws together whole parishes and counties, and sometimes (with an estate that might make him the blessing and ornament of the world around him) has no other view and ambition, but to be an animal above dogs and horses, without the relish of any one enjoyment which is peculiar to the faculties of human nature. I know it will here be said, that, talking of mere country squires at this rate, is, as it were, to write against Valentine and Orson. To prove any thing against the race of men, you must take them as they are adorned with education; as they live in courts, or have received instructions in colleges.-Tatler.

CLXXXVIII. /8

That wealth that bounteous fortune sends

As presents to her dearest friends,
Is oft' laid out upon a purchase
Of two yards long in parish churches,
And those too happy men that bought it
Had liv'd, and happier too, without it.

CLXXXIX. 189

Butler.

The learned Vossius says, his barber used to comb his head in iambics. And indeed, in all ages, one of this useful profession, this order of cosmetic philosophers, has been celebrated by the most eminent hands. You see the barber in Don Quixote is one of the principal characters in the history.-Steele.

CXC. 190

He that sips of many arts, drinks of none. However, we must know, that all learning, which is but one grand science, hath so homogeneall a body, that the parts thereof do with a mutuall service relate to, and communicate strength and lustre each to other. Our artist knowing language to be the key of learning, thus begins—

His tongue being but one by nature, he gets cloven by art and industry. Before the confusion of Babel, all the world was one continent in language: since divided intɔ

severall tongues, as severall ilands. Grammar is the ship, by benefit whereof we passe from one to another. His mother-tongue was like the dull music of a monochord, which by study he turns into the harmony of severall instruments.-Fuller.

CXCI. 19

Logicians use to clap a proposition,
As justices do criminals in prison,

And in as learn'd authentic nonsense writ
The names of all their moods and figures fit:
For a logician's one that has been broke
To ride and pace his reason by the book,
And by their rules, and precepts, and examples,
To put his wits into any kind of trammels.

CXCII. 2

Butler.

All play-debts must be paid in specie, or by an equivalent. The man that plays beyond his income pawns his estate: the woman must find out something else to mortgage, when her pin-money is gone: the husband has his lands to dispose of, the wife her person. Now when the female body is once dipped, if the creditor be very importunate, I leave my readers to consider the consequences.

Guardian.

CXCIII. 93.

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.-Sheridan.

CXCIV. 94

Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle, will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.-La

vuter.

CXCV. 195

Segrais has distinguished the readers of poetry according to their capacity of judging, into three classes. [He might have said the same of writers too, if he had pleased.] "In the lowest form he places those whom

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