There is, in every human heart,

Some not completely barren part,

Where seeds of love and truth might grow,

And flowers of generous virtue blow;
To plant, to watch, to water there,—

This be our duty—this our care !

Blessings of Instruction.-JOHN BOWRING.

MAN. Limited Capacities of

Oh! how weak

Is mortal man! how trifling-how confin'd
His
scope of vision! Puff'd with confidence,
His phrase grows big with immortality,
And he, poor insect of a summer's day,
Dreams of eternal honours to his name;
Of endless glory and perennial bays.

Time: A Poem.-H. K. WHITE.

Nothing can be more astonishing in the nature of man than the contrarieties which we there observe, with regard to all things. He is made for the knowledge of truth this is what he most ardently desires, and most eagerly pursues; yet when he endeavours to lay hold on it, he is so dazzled and confounded as never to be secure of actual possession.

Pensées.-BLAISE PASCAL,

MAN Compared to a Garden.

MAN.

And such is Man. A soil which breeds

Or sweetest flowers or vilest weeds;
Flowers lovely as the morning's light,
Weeds deadly as the aconite;

Just as his heart is trained to bear

The poisonous weed, or flow'ret fair.

Blessings of Instruction.-JOHN BOWRING.

Contradictions in

What a chimera is man!

What a surprising

novelty! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradiction! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth; the great depository and guardian of truth, and yet a mere medley of uncertainty; the glory and the scandal of the universe! If he is too aspiring and lofty, we can lower and humble him; if too mean and little, we can exalt him. To conclude, we can bait him with repugnances and contradictions, until, at length, he considers himself to be a monster even beyond conception.

Pensées.-BLAISE PASCAL.

MAN'S Relation to God.

Lord, what a nothing is this little span,

We call a Man!

What fenny trash maintains the smoth'ring fires

Of his desires!

How slight and short are his resolves at longest :
How weak at strongest!

Oh, if a sinner, held by that fast hand,
Can hardly stand,

Good God! in what a desp'rate case are they,
That have no stay!

Man's state implies a necessary curse;

When not himself he's mad; when most himself he's worse.

Emblems, Book II. 14.-FRANCIS QUARLES.

MANHOOD.

The man is in effect a child still, only he has changed his play-things, and now acts upon a larger scale, but with the same trifling and contracted views. Sermon on Messiah's Entrance into Jerusalem,

The Bas Bleu, or Conversation.-HANNAH More.

MANNERS.

Striking manners are bad manners.

Conversational Remarks of Rev. ROBT. HALL.

MARRIAGE.

For still where the strong is betrothed to the weak,
And the stern in sweet marriage is blent with the
meek,

Rings the concord harmonious, both tender and strong.
The Lay of the Bell.-SCHILLER.

MARRIAGE. Advice respecting

When it shall please God to bring thee to man's providence and circumspection in For from thence will spring all thy

estate, use great

choosing thy wife. future good or evil.

And it is an action of life like

unto a stratagem of war; wherein a man can err but once. If thy estate be good, match near home and at leisure; if weak, far off and quickly. Inquire diligently of her disposition, and how her parents have been inclined in their youth. Let her not be poor, how generous soever. For a man can buy nothing in the market with gentility. Nor choose a base and uncomely creature altogether for wealth; for it will cause contempt in others, and loathing in thee. Neither make choice of a dwarf, or a fool; for, by the one thou shalt beget a race of pigmies; the other will be thy continual disgrace, and it will yirke thee to hear her talk. For thou shalt find it, to thy great grief, that there is nothing more fulsome than a she-fool.

Precepts or Directions for the Well-ordering and
Carriage of a Man's Life.-LORD BURLEIGH.

MARRIAGE.

Advice respecting

Young let the lover be, the lady old,
And that disparity of years shall prove

No bane to peace, although some bar to love.
'Tis not the worst, our nuptial ties among,

That joins the ancient bride and bridegroom young;
Young wives, like changing winds, their power display
By shifting points, and varying day by day;
Now zephyrs mild, now whirlwinds in their force,
They sometimes speed, but often thwart our course;
And much experienced should that pilot be,
Who sails with them on life's tempestuous sea.
But like a trade-wind is the ancient dame,
Mild to your wish, and every day the same;
Ready as time, no sudden squalls you fear,
But set full sail and with assurance steer;
Till every danger in your way be past,
And then she gently, mildly breathes her last;
Rich you arrive, in port awhile remain,

And for a second venture sail again.

MARRIAGE.

The Parish Register, Part II.-G. CRABBE.

On rejecting offers of

How forward these men are !-I think, child, we kept up our dignity. Any girl, however inexperienced, knows how to accept an offer, but it requires a vast deal of address to refuse one with proper condescension and disdain. I used to practise it at school with the dancing-master!

The Lady of Lyons, Act I. Scene I.
E. B. LYTTON.