A CONSIDERATION OF CONVENIENCE.

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men each to govern himself and suffer any artificial limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience. This it is that makes the constitution of a State, and the due distribution of its powers, a matter of the most delicate and complicated skill.

RELIGIOUS ELEMENTS OF.

Burke.

FOUR PILLARS OF.

When any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure,) men had need to pray for fair weather. Bacon.

DROPPING THE PREROGATIVE OF.

The surest way of governing, both in a private family and a kingdom, is for a husband and a prince sometimes to drop their prerogative. Hughes.

A PYRAMID.

A government which takes in the consent of the greatest number of the people may justly be said to have the broadest bottom; and if it be terminated in the authority of

It seems to me a great truth, that human things cannot stand on selfishness, mechanical utilities, economies, and law courts; that if there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are mis-one single person, it may be said to have the narrowest top; and so makes the finest pyramid. Sir Wm. Temple.

erable, and doomed to ruin.

BY FEAR.

Carlyle.

Power is detested, and miserable is the life of him who wishes rather to be feared than to be loved. FORM OF.

Nepos.

Look over the whole creation, and you shall see that the band, or cement, that

As the mute swan that floats adown the holds together all the parts of this great

stream,

IN POVERTY.

Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

Too PROFUse.

Pope.

There is a selfishness even in gratitude, when it is too profuse; to be overthankful for one favour is in effect to lay out for anCumberland.

other.

AN AGREEABLE SERVITUDE.

and glorious fabric is gratitude. South. AN EASY VIRTUE.

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious, so also, is it an obvious, a cheap, and an easy virtue; so obvious, that wherever there is life there is place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense; and so easy that the sluggard may be so without labour. Seneca.

One destin'd period men in common have,
The great, the base, the coward, and the
brave,

All good alike for worms, companions in the
Lansdowne.
grave.
APPEARS DISTANT.

As a tract of country narrowed in the distance expands itself when we approach, thus the way to our near grave appears to us as long as it did formerly when we were far off. Richter.

It is a species of agreeable servitude to be under an obligation to those we esteem. A LEVELLER OF DISTINCTIONS.

SWEETNESS OF.

Queen Christina.

What is grandeur, what is power?
Heavier toil, superior pain!
What the bright reward we gain?
The grateful mem'ry of the good.
Sweet is the breath of vernal shower,
The bee's collected treasure sweet,
Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet
The still small voice of gratitude. Gray.

The reconciling grave

Swallows distinction first, that made us foes:

There all lie down in peace together.

DEFINITION of.

Greatness with private men,

Gravity is a mystery of the body, invented Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse;

to conceal the defects of the mind.

EXCESS OF.

La Rochefoucauld.

And we, whom from our high births they conclude,

The only freemen, are the only slaves.

Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. Happy the golden mean.

FALSE.

Lavater.

There is a false gravity that is a very ill symptom; and it may be said, that as rivers, which run very slowly, have always the most mud at the bottom: so a solid stiffness in the constant course of a man's life, is a sign of a thick bed of mud at the bottom of his brain.

JOINED WITH PLEASANTRY.

DUTIES OF.

Massinger.

Since, by your greatness, you
Are nearer heaven in place, be nearer it
In goodness; rich men should transcend
the poor,

As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort
of

Saville. The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.
Tourneur.

As in a man's life, so in his studies, I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure, that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into Pliny.

wantonness.

NOT EGOTISTICAL.

He only is great who has the habits of greatness, who after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and "tells neither father nor mother of it." Lavater

How often dost thou with thy case, thy UNHAPPINESS OF. habit,

Colton.

High stations tumult, but not bliss create: Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser None think the great unhappy but the great. fools

Young.

that eating canker grief, with wasteful spite, | BLEEDING OF THE HEART. Preys on the rosy bloom of youth and beau

Weep I cannot;
But my heart bleeds.
HEAVINESS of.

Trembling lips,

Shakespeare.

Tuned to such grief that they say bright
words sadly.
Dobell.
IMPOTENCE of.

"Tis impotent to grieve for what is past,
And unavailing to exclaim.
Havard.
INCURABLE.

A malady

Have written strange defeatures in my face.
Shakespeare.
FOR A CHILD.
Grief fills the room up of my absent child;
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me;
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Preys on my heart, that medicine cannot
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then, have I reason to be fond of grief.
EFFECTS OF.

Ibid.

reach

Invisible and cureless.

INDICATIONS OF.

The heavy sigh,

Maturin.

The tear in the half-opening eye,
The pallid cheek and brow, confess'd
That grief was busy in his breast.
INTENSITY OF.

Scott.

I felt a tightness grasp my throat,
As it would strangle me; such as I felt-
I knew it well-some twenty years ago,
When my good father shed his blessing on

me,

I hate to weep, and so I came away.

Joanna Baillie.

Alas! I have not words to tell my grief;
To vent my sorrow would be some relief;
Lee. Light sufferings give us leisure to complain;
We groan, but cannot speak, in greater
pain.
Dryden.
Tears from the depth of some divine de-
spair.
Tennyson.
Wordsworth.INTERNAL.

Her infant babe

Had from its mother caught the trick of grief,

And sighed among its playthings.

EXCESS OF.

If the internal griefs of every man could

Excess of grief for the deceased is mad-be read, written on his forehead, how many ness; for it is an injury to the living, and the who now excite envy would appear to be dead know it not. Xenophon. the objects of pity. Metastasio. FOLLY OF.