tion. Temper seems to be the principle: humour, its result. Cheerfulness has been defined—“An habitual good-humour." [Mort. He holds your temper in a high respect And curbs himself even of his natural scope, When you do cross his humour. 1 Henry IV., iii. 1. The moment he entered the room, I saw that something had vexed him, for he was in such an ill nothing I could say or do. ger the same even falls into fits of Since my cousin's return, I find her very much altered; she has no lon for which she was so remarkable, but frequently which make her far from an agreeable companion. He was a man of very grave and reserved but when in the he could unbend, and be as communicative and agreeable as others. Temple-Church. The gods of the ancients were worshipped in temples. The God of Christians is worshipped in churches. Church signifies the house of the Lord; temple is derived from templum, the Latin word for a building consecrated to the worship of a divinity. The word temple, however, is used by modern writers to signify the place where God chooses to dwell; in contradistinction from church, as conveying the idea of the place in which he is worshipped. This may be illustrated in the expressions, "the temple of the Lord;" and "the Christian church." Since, however, God is omnipresent, it is evident that every church must be a temple, though every temple is not a church. The leading idea in temple is place, i. e. holy place. The prominent idea in church is worship, i. e. place of worship. 66 The word church is frequently employed in the sense of an assembly of the faithful," or to specify a sect of Christians; as, "the church of Christ," "the church of England," the "Catholic church," &c. &c. The word temple is never so used. [Cor. The noble sister of Publicola, Duke. Coriolanus, v. 3. we have seen better days; In the earliest times, there appear to have been very few at Rome, and in many spots the worship of a certain divinity had existed from time immemorial, though we hear of no building of a temple to the same divinity till a comparatively late period. It is said that Ethelbert, on his conversion, gave up his own palace to the missionaries, and the which they built adjoining it occupied the site of the present cathedral of Canterbury. The character of the early Greek was dark and mysterious, for they had no windows, and they received the light only through the door, which was very large, or from lamps burning in them. Henry the Second, the most powerful monarch of his time, having ended his contest with the now looked forward to the enjoyment of peace and tranquillity , Vestige-Trace. A vestige is properly the mark made by a footstep; a trace is a succession of marks. They both refer to indistinct ap pearances of bygone things or actions. A vestige is an isolated mark. A trace consists of a number of succeeding marks, partly obliterated, but still indistinctly connected. Vestiges are scattered; traces are followed. Vestiges are points by which we may trace. If a plough should be dug up on an uninhabited island, it might be considered as a vestige of its former cultivation. If, in the same island, the remains of hedges, old gates, tools, ruins of farm-houses, &c., were discovered, they might be looked upon as traces of agriculture. Many [Pisa. He hath been searched among the dead and living, But no trace of him. Cymbeline, v. 5. Ere Julius landed on her white-cliffed shore, They sank, delivered o'er To fatal dissolution; and I ween, No vestige then was left that such had ever been WORDSWORTH. Artegal and Elidure. Of that day's shame Or glory, not a vestige seems to endure, Save in this Rill that took from blood the name Which yet it bears, sweet Stream! as crystal pure So may all trace and sign of deeds aloof Exercise. Near the Lake of Thrasymene.'] of the Roman dominion are still to be found in all the south ern, and some of the northern countries of Europe. In many parts of England, of Roman roads, encampments, and fortifications have been discovered, which prove the state of perfection in arts, as well as arms, which the ancient rulers of the world had attained. The patient, though he had suffered severely from his long illness, was now perfectly recovered; and neither his countenance nor frame bore the slightest laboured. of the effects of the disease under which he had so long The walls of ancient Jerusalem were destroyed to their very foundations by the soldiers of Titus; so that the prophecy was literally fulfilled, that not of her former greatness should remain. a man. Vice-Sin. Sin is an offence against the commands of God. Vice is an offence against morality. Whatever is contrary to the Divine law is a sin; whatever is contrary to the precepts of morality is a vice. Sin has reference to the relation between God and man; vice refers to the relation between man and The harm we do ourselves by sin is, that we thereby incur the anger of our Maker. The harm we do ourselves by vice is, that we thereby render ourselves less capable of fulfilling our duties to our fellow-creatures. The same act may be both sinful and vicious; sinful, because it is contrary to the law of God; vicious, because it is injurious to society. [Edg. The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to scourge us. Cleo. King Lear, v. 3 Then is it sin, "If a man makes his Exercise. public, though they be such as seem principally to affect himself, (as drunkenness, or the like,) they then become, by the bad example they set, of pernicious effect to society." 66 Every single gross act of is much the same thing to the conscience that a great blow or fall is to the head; it stuns and bereaves it of all use of its senses for a time." "Proud views and vain desires in our worldly employments are as truly and corruptions as hypocrisy in prayer, or vanity in alms." "Virtue and this world; other world." chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the "I cannot blame him for inveighing so sharply against the clergy in his age." of the According to Horne Tooke, road is the way which any one has rode (?) over. Way is from the Saxon wegan, to move; it is the line along which you move. Way is the general term, and road is the species of way. A pathway-a high road. Instead of keeping the high road to a town, you may frequently go a shorter way across the fields. In like manner, abstractly, the high road to preferment is the way commonly taken; the way to preferment is the one which individual may any o adopt. [Wol. Say, Wolsey,-that once trod the ways of glory, A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it. choose P. L., vii, 576-7 |