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MDLIX.

Reason and virtue alone can bestow liberty.—Shaftesbury.

MDLX.

The best kind of glory is that which is reflected from honesty, such as was the glory of Cato and Aristides; but it was harmful to them both, and is seldom beneficial to any man, whilst he lives; what it is to him after his death, I cannot say, because I love not philosophy mere ly notional and conjectural, and no man who has made the experiment has been so kind as to come back to inform us.-Cowley.

MDLXI.

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.-Pope.

MDLXII.

'Tis pity wine, which nature meant
To man in kindness to present,
And give him kindly to caress
And cherish his frail happiness,
Of equal virtue to renew
His weary mind and body too,
Shou'd (like the cider tree in Eden,
Which only grew to be forbidden)
No sooner come to be enjoy'd,
But th' owner's fatally destroyed.

MDLXIII.

Butler.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench his fist the moment it is born.-Shenstone.

MDLXIV.

Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe, will never be an atheist; the frame of man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature; though

when all is done, I do not find she hath made it so much as proof against one disease, lest it should be thought to have made it no less than a prison to the soul.-Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury.

MDLXV.

Ill news

Are swallow-wing'd, but what's good walks on crutches. Massinger.

MDLXVI.

I have often thought that a story-teller is born, as well as a poet.-Steele.

MDLXVII.

An Englishman fears contempt more than death: he often flies to death as a refuge from its pressure, and dies when he fancies the world has ceased to esteem him.-Goldsmith.

MDLXVIII.

The painters are most envious, if they want
Good colours for preferment: virtuous ladies
Love this way to be flatter'd, and accuse
The workmen of detraction, if he add not
Some grace they cannot truly call their own.
Massinger.

MDLXIX.

Men do not always take the right way; for they often think they have totally taken leave of all business, when they have only exchanged one employment for another. There is little less trouble in forming a private family than a whole kingdom: wherever the mind is perplexed, it is an entire disorder, and domestic employments are not less troublesome, for being less important. Moreover, for having shaken off the court and public employment, we have not taken leave of the principal vexations of life.-Montaigne.

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Acquaintance, 712, 1351

Bar, the, 873

Bashfulness, 586, 1547

Beauty, 99, 161, 302, 529, 631,
644, 932, 1219, 1282, 1406, 1407,
1476

Actors, 476, 616, 839, 1020, 1338, Benefits, 520, 584, 601, 729, 808,

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Almsgiving, 994

819, 841,978, 1036, 1069, 1084,
1401

Benevolence, 365, 391, 543,

1253

Birth, 372, 377, 501, 1452
Bombastry, 670

Books, 68, 179, 431, 466, 500, 521,
558, 615,847,863, 953, 973, 993,
1077, 1086, 1231, 1245, 1252,
1258, 1306

Brains, 328, 1296, 1513
Brevity, 343

Ambition, 293, 356, 552, 663, 828, Building, 929

1038

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Business, 294, 706, 1186

Busy men, 1298

Butts, 1041

Cameleon, 769

Candour, 603, 1430

Anticipation, 872

Applause, 1046

Argument, 1483, 1523

Arrogance, 748, 1495

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Comedy and Tragedy, 402

Commerce, 1023, 1186

Common Sense, 1561

Company, 310, 383,397, 621, 651,

793, 894, 938, 1215, 1273
Complaisance, 137, 898

Compliments, 576, 1443

Composition, 1537

Conceit, 133, 491, 718, 1263
Confidence, 55, 357, 1024

Conscience, 114, 404, 902, 1329,

1338, 1358

Constancy, 454, 541, 1430

Counsel, 721, 1404
Counterfeits, 957
Country gentleman, 1504

Life, 22, 149, 213, 468,

1337, 1356
Courage, 180, 312, 1261
Court, 213, 394, 432, 512
mournings, 1255

Courtier, 201,963, 1259
Courtship, 412
Cowards, 986

Coxcombry, 257, 443, 444, 1519
Credit, 505, 620
Credulity, 778

Criticism, 536,680,789, 842, 1233,
1331

Critics, 44, 95, 127, 182, 244, 276,
543, 708, 948, 1061, 1131, 1283,
1460

Cultivation, 460, 1345
Cunning, 383, 752

Curiosity, 679, 1114, 1557
Custom,311, 885, 1072

Dampers, 1012, 1436

Death, 103, 131, 186, 192, 366,
376, 750, 1371

Debt, 629

Debtors, 1316

Deceit, 271, 342, 430, 581, 1058,

1228, 1275, 1320

Deference, 144

Delusion, 807

Desire, 1145, 1375
Detraction, 1416

Difficulties, choice of, 414
Diffidence, 27

Discontent, 698, 843, 1111, 1139
Dishonesty, escapes of, 1221
Discretion, 992

Content, 43, 104, 583, 742, 773, Disgrace at court, 1039

893, 1304, 1418
Contrarieties, 1047, 1487
Controversy, 217, 224, 282, 546,
715, 1206, 1242, 1528
Conversation, 239, 249, 554, 622,
676, 721, 782, 811, 825, 1006,
1092, 1239
Conviction, 732
Conviviality, 717
Cookery at sea, 964
Coquetry, 779

Correction, 1421, 1552

Disobedience, 1462, 1490
Disputes, 715, 1140
Domestic comfort, 794
Dress of the earth, 304, 553
Dress, 23, 646, 856, 1117, 1195,
1243, 1286, 1310, 1376
Drunkenness, 250, 384, 502, 609,
1456

Duelling, 783, 1420
Dulness, 706, 1388

Dunces, 547

Duty, 983

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Evasions, 1224

Evil, 26, 47, 100, 115, 299
Example, 785, 886

Excellence, 145, 572, 738, 1052,
1399, 1493, 1521
Exile, 75

Experience, 353, 730, 1082
Exterior attractions, 931
Extravagance, 91, 128, 160, 212,
611, 632, 1262

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Gain, 668

Game of Life, 400

Gaming, 255, 465, 578, 754, 908,
910, 1135, 1348, 1373, 1472
Generosity, 423, 428, 1527
Genius, 83, 434, 790, 868, 882, 967,
1154, 1350, 1360, 1494

Gentleman, 1227, 1474, 1535,
1556

country, 1504

Gentlewoman, 1143
Ghosts and Spectres, 966
Glory, 1560

Good and Evil, 17, 232, 275, 363,
1054

Good Breeding, 89, 227, 263, 303,
355, 528, 665, 1066, 1244, 1267,
1541

Good-humour, 259, 897, 1191
Good Fortune, 370

Good Manners, 1078, 1264, 1389
Good-nature, 181, 337, 835, 1071
Good Sense, 65, 707
Good-will, 927
Gout, 637

Government, 1148, 1347, 1383,

1424

Gratitude, 449, 532, 720, 760
Gravity, 683, 1179

Fear, 9, 291, 389, 458, 968, 1085, Greatness, 18, 319, 974, 1247, 1254,

1489

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1392, 1497

Gymnastics, 1431

Gypsies, 1279

Habit, 885

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