I.

INDUSTRY.

FEW things are impoffible to industry and

fkill.

Prince of Abyffinia, p. 88.

Many things difficult to defign, prove easy to performance.

Ditto, p. 93.

He that fhall walk with vigour three hours a-day, will pass, in feven years, a space equal to the circumference of the globe.

Ditto, ditto.

Whatever bufies the mind without corrupting it, has, at least this ufe, that it refcues the day from idleness; and he that is never idle, will not often be vicious.

Rambler, v. 4 p. 97.

IMITATION.

NO man was ever great by imitation.

Prince Abyffinia, p. 66.

It is justly confidered as the greatest excellency of art, to imitate nature; but it requires judgement to diftinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation.

Rambler, v. 1 p. 21.

As

As not every instance of fimilitude can be confidered as a proof of imitation, fo not every imitation ought to be ftigmatised as a plagiarifm.-The adoption of a noble fentiment, or the infertion of a borrowed ornament, may fometimes difplay fo much judgement as will almost compenfate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of fervility, pursue the path of the antients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

Ditto, v. 3, p. 231.

The reputation which arifes from the detail, or transposition of borrowed sentiments, may spread for a while, like ivy on the rind of antiquity, but will be torn away by accident, or contempt, and fuffered to rot, unheeded, on the ground.

Ditto, ditto, p. 292.

When the original is well chofen, and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence, which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new poffibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

Ditto, v. 4, p. 25.

INDOLENCE.

IT is in vain to put wealth within the reach of him who will not ftretch out his hand to take it.

Life of King.

Indolence is one of thefe vices from which thofe whom it once infects are feldom reformed.

Rambler, v. 3, p. 298.

Every other fpecies of luxury operates upon some appetite that is quickly fatiated, and requires fome concurrence of art, or ac cident, which every place will not fupply; but the defire of case acts equally at all hours, and the longer it is indulged, is the more increased.

Ditto, ditto, ditto.

He that is himself weary, will foon weary the public. Let him, therefore, lay down his employment, whatever it be, who can no longer exert his former activity, or attention, Let him not endeavour to ftruggle with cenfure, or obftinately infeft the ftage, till a general hifs commands him to depart.

Ditto, v. 4, p. 258.

IDLE

IDLENESS.

AS pride is fometimes hid under humility, idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty, and real employment, naturally endeavours to croud his mind with fomething that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do, with eager diligence, that he may keep himfelf in his own favour.

Idler, v. 1, p. 172.

Perhaps every man may date the predominance of thofe defires that disturb his life, and contaminate his confcience, from fome unhappy hour, when too much leisure expofed him to their incurfions; for he has lived with little obfervation, either on himfelf, or others, who does not know that to be idle is to be vicious.

Rambler, v. 2, p. 181.

There are faid to be pleasures in madness, known only to madmen. There are certainly miferies in idleness, which the idler can only conceive.

Idler, v. 1, p. 15.

Of all the enemies of idlenefs, want is the moft formidable. Fame is foon found to be a found, and love a dream. Avarice and ambition

ambition may be justly fufpected of being privy confederates with idlenefs; for when they have, for a while, protected their votaries, they often deliver them up, to end their lives under her dominion. Want always ftruggles against idleness; but want herfelf is often overcome, and every hour fhews the careful obferver those who had rather live in ease than in plenty.

Ditto, ditto, p. 51.

INTEGRITY. INTEGRITY without knowledge is weak, and generally useless; and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

P. of Abyffinia, p. 249.

IGNORANCE.

THE man who feels himself ignorant, should at least be modeft.

Preliminary Difcourse to the London Chronicle, p. 156.

IGNORANCE.

(Compared with Knowledge.)

The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge often tyrannical. It is

hard