right only of innocence (if in any human being innocence can be found) but of him. whofe life is fhortened by his crimes, the laft duties are humility and felf-abafement.

Convicts Addrefs, p. 18.

great

DEPENDENC E.

THERE is no ftate more contrary to the dignity of wisdom, than perpetual and unlimited dependence, in which the underftanding lies ufelefs, and every motion is received from external impulfe. Reafon is the distinction of human nature, the faculty by which we approach to fome degree of affociation with celeftial intelligences; but as the excellence of every power appears only in its operations, not to have reason, and to have it useless and unemployed, is nearly the fame.

Rambler, v. 4, p. 12.

Wherever there is wealth, there will be dependence, and expectation; and wherever there is dependence, there will be an emulation of fervility.

Ditto, ditto, p. 158.

If it be unhappy to have one patron, what is his mifery who has many?

Ditto, v. 1, p. 161.

DIFFIDENCE.

THE pain of mifcarriage is naturally proportionate to the defire of excellence; and therefore till men are hardened by long familiarity with reproach, or have attained, by frequent ftruggles, the art of fuppreffing their emotions, Diffidence, is found the infuperable affociate of understanding.

Rambler, v. 4, p. 186.

DELICACY.

HE that too much refines his delicacy, will always endanger his quiet.

Ditto, ditto, p. 221.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

WE do not fo often difappoint others, as ourselves, as we not only think more highly than others of our own abilities, but allow ourselves to form hopes which we never communicate, and pleafe our thoughts with employments which none ever will allot us, and with elevations to which we are never expected to rife.

Idler, v. 2, p. 203.
DIS-

DISEASE.

IT may be faid that difeafe generally begins that equality which death completes. The diftinctions which fet one man fo much above another, are very little perceived in the gloom of a fick chamber, where it wil be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or inftruction from the wife, where all human glory is obliterated---The wit is clouded, the reafoner perplexed, and the hero fubdued; where the higheft and brightest of mortal beings, finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

Rambler, v. 1, p. 290.

DIST RUST.

IT is impoffible to fee the long fcrolls in which every contract is included, with all their appendages of feals and atteftation, without wondering at the depravity of thofe beings who must be reftrained from violation of promise by fuch formal and public evidences, and precluded from equivocation and fubterfuge by fuch punctilious minutenefs. Among all the fatires to which folly and wickedness have given occafion, none is equally fevere with a bond, or a settlement.

DEL AY.

THE folly of allowing ourselves to delay what we know cannot be finally escaped, is one of the general weakneffes, which in spite of the inftruction of moralifts, and the remonftrances of reason, prevail to a greater, or lefs degree in every mind: Even they who most steadily withftand it, find it, if not the moft violent, the most pertinacious of their paffions, always renewing its attacks, and though often vanquished, never deftroyed.

Rambler, v. 3, p. 170.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active profecution of whatever he is defirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can afcertain fuccefs; Death may intercept the swifteft career, but he who is cut off in the execution of an honeft undertaking, has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he miffed the victory.

Ditto, ditto, p. 173.

DUTY.

WHEN we act according to our duty, we mit the event to him by whofe laws our

actions.

actions are governed, and who will fuffer none to be finally punifhed for obedience. But when in profpect of fome good, whether natural, or moral, we break the rules prefcribed to us, we withdraw from the direction of fuperior wifdom, and take all confequences upon ourselves.

Prince of Abyffinia, p. 203.

DILIGENCE.

DILIGENCE in employments of lefs confequence is the moft fuccefsful introduction to greater enterprizes.

Life of Drake, p. 160.

E

EN V Y.

HE that knows himself defpifed, will always be envious; and ftill more envious and malevolent, if he is condemned to live in the prefence of those who defpife him.

Prince of Abyffinia, p. 86.

To fee the highest minds levelled with the meaneft, may produce fome folace to the fciousness of weaknefs, and fome mortifica