A WORN-OUT TRICK. Shakespeare. Your cold hypocrisy's a stale device, A worn-out trick: wouldst thou be thought in earnest Addison. Clothe thy feign'd zeal in rage, in fire, in The fawning, sneaking, and flattering hypocrite, that will do, or be anything, for his own advantage. Stillingfleet. VILLANY OF THE. The hypocrite had left his mask and stood The hypocrite would not put on the appearance of virtue, if it was not the most proper means to gain love. Addison. WORTHLESSNESS OF. A hypocrite is good in nothing but sight. HYPOCRITES. CHARACTERISTICS OF. Their friendship is a lurking snare, Their honour but an idle breath, W. G. Simms. The world's all title page; there's not con- THE DEVIL'S DRudges. tents; The world's all face; the man that shows Christ's livery. his heart Is hooted for his nudities and scorn'd. THE DEVIL'S DUPES. If the devil ever laughs it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has; they serve him better than any others, and receive no wages; nay, what is still more extraordinary, they submit to greater mortifications to go to hell than the sincerest Christian to go to heaven. Colton. DEFINITION OF. IDEA. Whatsoever the mind perceives of itself. or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call an idea. Locke. EVOKING AN. An idea like a ghost, (according to the common notion of ghost,) must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. Dickens. And purposeless, to-morrow, borrowing sloth, Itself heaps on its shoulders loads of woe Too heavy to be borne. Pollok. THE CAUSE OF EVIL. From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil, as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever, The Turks have a proverb, which says, that "The Devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the Devil." Colton. EVILS OF. Evil thoughts intrude in an unemployed mind, as naturally as worms are generated in a stagnant pool. From the Latin. Idleness is the badge of the gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the step-mother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it is not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief or sinks into melancholy. Burton. TRAVELS SLOWLY. Troubles spring from idleness, and grievous toils from needless causes. Franklin. NO COMPANION FOR VICE. Idleness is the grand Pacific ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss, the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractly considered, may be, and is often, engendered in idleness, but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. A BUSY. IDLER. Colton. Idlers are the most busy, though the least active of men. Men of pleasure never have time for anything. No lawyer, no statesman, no bustling, hurrying, restless underlying of the counter, is so eternally occupied as a lounger about town. He is linked to labor by a series of indefinable nothings. USELESSNESS OF AN. Where ignorance is bliss "Tis folly to be wise. Gray. From ignorance our comfort flows Dull, unfeeling, barren ignorance. Short-arm'd ignorance. Shakespeare. There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government, is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant. Coleridge. A SPIRITUAL POISON. Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun. Gregory. Bulwer. PITIED BY HEAVEN. Heaven pities ignorance; It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves: for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other. INCREASES PRIDE. Colton. By ignorance is pride increased; Gay RESULTS OF. source of human improvement. Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to pre- Destroy this faculty, and the condition of judice, and perpetuity to error. man will become as stationary as that of Robert Hall. the brutes. Dugald Stewart. DIVINE ATTRIBUTE OF THE. It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon. Washington Irving. CHARACTERISTICS OF. Imagination I unde stand to be the representation of an individual thought. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present. Bacon. But all men's minds in this united be. Sir J. Davies. KNOWING OUR. How gloomy would be the mansions of the dead to him, who did not know that he should never die; that, what now acts shall continue its agency, and what now thinks shall think on forever. Johnson. Those are raised above sense, and aspire after immortality, who believe the perpetTillotson. ual duration of their souls. THE MIRACLE OF. Still seems it strange that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more. THOUGHTS ON. Can it be? Young. Matter immortal? and shall spirit die? No resurrection know? Shall man alone, Doth this soul within me, this spirit of thought, and love, and infinite desire, dissolve as well as the body? Has nature, who quenches our bodily thirst, who rests our weariness, and perpetually encourages us to endeavour onwards, prepared no food for this appetite of immortality? TRUTH OF. Leigh Hunt. Immortality o'ersweeps All pains, all tears, all time, all fears-and peals, |