joke; I seldom remained above six months in a parish, so that I might have died before I had found a settlement in any; thus I was forced to beg my bread, and a sorry trade I found it.

IDLENESS.

The Man of Feeling.-HENRY MACKENZIE.

Influence of

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all; she indeed influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues. Maxims, CCXXXII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

I know a factious parish, wherein, if the minister in his pulpit had but named the word kingdom, the people would have been ready to have petitioned against him for a malignant. But as for realm, the same in French, he might safely use it in his sermons as oft as he pleased. Ignorance, which generally inflameth, sometimes, by good hap abateth men's malice.

Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XLIX.
THOMAS FULLER.

IGNORANCE. Fate of

Now, while I was gazing upon all these things, I turned my head to look back, and saw Ignorance coming up to the river side; but he soon got over, and that without half the difficulty which the other two men met with. For it happened that there was then in that place one Vain-Hope, a ferryman, that with his boat helped him over; so he, as the other, I saw, did ascend the hill, to come up to the gate, only he came alone; neither did any man meet him with the least encouragement. When he was coming up to the gate, he looked up to the writing that was above, and then began to knock, supposing that entrance should have been quickly administered to him: but he was asked by the men that looked over the top of the gate, Whence come you, and what would you have? "I have eat and drank in the presence of the King, and He answered, he has taught in our streets." certificate, that they might go in and show it to the Then they asked for his King; so he fumbled in his bosom for one, and found none. Then said they, You have none! but the man answered never a word. he would not come down to see him, but commanded So they told the King, but the two shining ones that conducted Christian and Hopeful to the city to go out and take Ignorance, and bind him hand and foot, and have him they took him up, and carried him through the air to the away. Then door that I saw on the side of the hill, and put him in there. Then I saw that there was a way to hell even

from the gates of heaven, as well as from the City of Pilgrim's Progress.-JOHN BUNYAN.

Destruction.

ILLS. Origin of

All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves. or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices, and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity. Essay on the Effects of Luxury. DAVID HUME.

IMMORTALITY.

There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning, may be confident of no end; which is the peculiar of that necessary essence that cannot destroy itself;-and the highest strain of omnipotency, to be so powerfully constituted as not to suffer even from the power of itself: all others have a dependant being, and within the reach of destruction. Urn Burial.-Sir T. BROWNE.

IMMORTALITY. How to gain

The man of God lives longer without a tomb than any by one, invisibly interred by angels, and adjudged to obscurity, though not without some marks directing human discovery. Urn Burial.-Sir T. BROWNE.

IMMORTALITY. Intimation of

The innocent brightness of a new-born day
Is lovely yet;

The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye

That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live;
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Intimations on Immortality from recollections of Early
Childhood, Stanza XI.-WM. WORDSWORTH.

INDEPENDENCE.

Dangers of

A country possessed of freedom, has always two sorts of enemies to fear; foreign foes who attack its existence from without, and internal miscreants who betray its liberties within.

Letters from a Citizen of the World, Letter VII.
GOLDSMITH.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share,
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye;
Thy steps I follow, with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,

Immortal Liberty, whose look sublime

Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying

clime.

What time the iron-hearted Gaul,

With frantic superstition for his guide,
Armed with the dagger and the pall,
The sons of Woden to the field defied
The ruthless hag, by Weser's flood,
In Heaven's name urged the infernal blow;
And red the stream began to flow:
The vanquished were baptised with blood!

Ode to Independence.-TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT.

INDUSTRY and FRUGALITY.

A habit of frugality among the lower orders of mankind, is much more beneficial to society than the unreflecting might imagine. The pawnbroker, the attorney, and other pests of society, might, by proper management, be turned into serviceable members; and were these trades abolished, it is possible the same avarice that conducts the one, or the same chicanery that characterizes the other, might, by proper regulations, be converted into frugality and commendable prudence. The Bee, No. v.-GOLDSMITH.

INEBRIETY.

See Inebriety her wand she waves,
And lo! her pale, and lo! her purple slaves!
Sots in embroidery, and sots in crape,

Of every order, station, rank, and shape: