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 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 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. Acquaintance, 712, 1351 Bar, the, 873 Bashfulness, 586, 1547 Beauty, 99, 161, 302, 529, 631, Actors, 476, 616, 839, 1020, 1338, Benefits, 520, 584, 601, 729, 808, Almsgiving, 994 819, 841,978, 1036, 1069, 1084, Benevolence, 365, 391, 543, 1253 Birth, 372, 377, 501, 1452 Books, 68, 179, 431, 466, 500, 521, Brains, 328, 1296, 1513 Ambition, 293, 356, 552, 663, 828, Building, 929 1038 Business, 294, 706, 1186 Busy men, 1298 Butts, 1041 Cameleon, 769 Candour, 603, 1430 Anticipation, 872 Applause, 1046 Argument, 1483, 1523 Arrogance, 748, 1495 Comedy and Tragedy, 402 Commerce, 1023, 1186 Common Sense, 1561 Company, 310, 383,397, 621, 651, 793, 894, 938, 1215, 1273 Compliments, 576, 1443 Composition, 1537 Conceit, 133, 491, 718, 1263 Conscience, 114, 404, 902, 1329, 1338, 1358 Constancy, 454, 541, 1430 Counsel, 721, 1404 Life, 22, 149, 213, 468, 1337, 1356 Courtier, 201,963, 1259 Coxcombry, 257, 443, 444, 1519 Criticism, 536,680,789, 842, 1233, Critics, 44, 95, 127, 182, 244, 276, Cultivation, 460, 1345 Curiosity, 679, 1114, 1557 Dampers, 1012, 1436 Death, 103, 131, 186, 192, 366, Debt, 629 Debtors, 1316 Deceit, 271, 342, 430, 581, 1058, 1228, 1275, 1320 Deference, 144 Delusion, 807 Desire, 1145, 1375 Difficulties, choice of, 414 Discontent, 698, 843, 1111, 1139 Content, 43, 104, 583, 742, 773, Disgrace at court, 1039 893, 1304, 1418 Correction, 1421, 1552 Disobedience, 1462, 1490 Duelling, 783, 1420 Dunces, 547 Duty, 983 Evasions, 1224 Evil, 26, 47, 100, 115, 299 Excellence, 145, 572, 738, 1052, Experience, 353, 730, 1082 Gain, 668 Game of Life, 400 Gaming, 255, 465, 578, 754, 908, Gentleman, 1227, 1474, 1535, country, 1504 Gentlewoman, 1143 Good and Evil, 17, 232, 275, 363, Good Breeding, 89, 227, 263, 303, Good-humour, 259, 897, 1191 Good Manners, 1078, 1264, 1389 Government, 1148, 1347, 1383, 1424 Gratitude, 449, 532, 720, 760 Fear, 9, 291, 389, 458, 968, 1085, Greatness, 18, 319, 974, 1247, 1254, 1489 1392, 1497 Gymnastics, 1431 Gypsies, 1279 Habit, 885 |