limbs, with all their inflections and delineations, into plain words. For my own part, by long habitude, I do it fo mechanically, that when I walk the streets of London, I go tranflating all the way; and have more than once ftood behind in the circle, where not three words have been faid, and have brought off twenty different dialogues with me, which I could fairly have wrote down and fworn to.

I was going one evening to Martini's concert at Milan, and was juft entering the door of the hall, when the Marquifina di E*** was coming out in a fort of a hurry-she was almost upon me before I faw her; fo I gave a spring to one fide to let her pass -She had done the fame, and on the fame fide too: fo we ran our heads together: fhe inftantly got to the other fide to get out: I was just as unfortunate as she had been; for I had fprung to that fide, and oppofed her paffage again-We both flew together to the other fide, and then back-and fo on-it was ri diculous; we both blush'd intolerably; fo I did at laft the thing I should have done at first-I ftood ftock ftill, and the Marquifina had no more difficulty. I had no power to go into the room, till I had made her fo much reparation as to wait and follow her with my eye to the end of the paffage-She look'd back twice, and walk'd along it rather fideways, as if the would make room for any one coming up stairs to pass her-No, faid I-that's a vile tranflation: the Marquifina has a right to the beft apology I can make her; and that opening is left for me to do it in-fo I ran

and begg'd pardon for the embarraffment I had given her, faying it was my intention to have made her way! She answered, she was guided by the fame intention towards me-so we reciprocally thank'd each other. She was at the top of the stairs; and seeing no chi chefbée near her, I begg'd to hand her to her coach-fo we went down the stairs, stopping at every third step to talk of the concert and of the adventure- -Upon my word, Madame, faid I, when I had handed her in, I made fix different efforts to let you go out-And I made fix efforts, replied fhe, to let you enter-I wish to heaven you would make a feventh, faid I-With all my heart, said she, making room-Life is too fhort to be long about the forms of it-so I instantly stepp'd in, and fhe carried me home with her-And what became of the concert, St. Cecilia, who, I fuppofe was at it, knows more than I.

I will only add, that the connection which arose out of the translation, gave me more pleasure than any one I had the honour to make in Italy.

SENT. JOURNEY, P. 106.

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EN MIT Y.

HERE is no fmall degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a feason to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word-a look, which at one time

would

would make no impreffion-at another time wounds the heart; and like a fhaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would fcarce have reached the object aimed at.

SERM. XVI. P. 23.

SHAME AND DISGRACE.

THEY who have confidered our nature, affirm, that flame and difgrace are two of the moft infupportable evils of human life: the courage and fpirits of many have mastered other misfortunes, and borne themselves up againft them; but the wifeft and beft of fouls have not been a match for thefe; and we have many a tragical instance on record, what greater evils have been run into, merely to avoid this one.

Without this tax of infamy, poverty, with all the burdens it lays upon our flesh-fo long as it is virtuous, could never break the fpirits of a man; all its hunger, and pain, and naked nefs, are nothing to it, they have fome counterpoife of good; and befides, they are directed by Providence, and must be fubmitted to: but thofe are afflictions not from the hand of God or nature" for they do come forth of the DUST, and most properly may be faid to spring out of the GROUND, and this is the reafon they lay fuch

ftrefs

ftrefs upon our patience, and in the end create fuch a diftruft of the world, as makes us look up-and pray, Let me fall into thy hands, O God! but let me not fall into the hands of men."

SERM. XVI. P. 29

CURIOSITY:

HE love of variety, or curiofity of feeing new things, which is the fame, or at least a sister paffion to it,-feems wove into the frame of every fon and daughter of Adam; we usually speak of it as one of nature's levities, though planted within us for the folid purposes of carrying forwards the mind to fresh inquiry and knowledge: ftrip us of it, the mind (I fear) would dofe for ever over the prefent page; and we should all of us reft at ease with fuch objects as prefented themselves in the parish or province where we firft drew breath.

It is to this fpur, which is ever in our fides, that we owe the impatience of this defire for travelling: the paffion is no way bad,-but as others are, in its mifmanagement or excefs:-order it rightly, the advantages are worth the purfuit; the chief of which are--to learn the languages, the laws and cuftoms, and understand the government and interest of other nations, to acquire an urbanity and confidence of behaviour,

behaviour, and fit the mind more easily for converfation and discourse-to take us out of the company of our aunts and grandmothers, and from the track of nursery mistakes; and by fhewing us new objects, or old ones in new lights, to reform our judgmentsby tafting perpetually the varieties of nature, to know what is good-by obferving the addrefs and arts of men, to conceive what is fincere,and by seeing the difference of fo many various humours and manners,to look into ourselves and form our own.

SERMON XX. P. 104.

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INJURY.

N injury unanswered, in course grows weary of itself, and dies away in a voluntary remorse. In bad difpofitions, capable of no restraint but fear it has a different effect-the filent digeftion of one wrong provokes a fecond.

SERMON XIV. P. 24s

INSOLENCE.

HE infolence of base minds in fuccefs is bound

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lefs; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they fometimes furnish us with one, in the de

grees