LOVING-KINDNESS. LUCK kissed it oftener than he did his living and LOYALTY-with Love. Though loyalty, well held, to fools does make The laws of friendship we ourselves create, Love with bounty levied LOYALTY-Trials of. Massinger. What gen'rous man can live with that constraint men Banish themselves, for shame of being there! LOYALTY-True. Remember We are but subjects, Maximus: obedience Is all we can call ours; the hearts of princes, The most inviolable attachment to the laws of our country is everywhere acknowledged a capital virtue; and where the people are rot so happy as to have any legislature but a single person, the strictest loyalty is, in that case, the truest patriotism. Heat. LUCK-Good and Bad. I may here, as well as anywhere, impart the secret of what is called good and bad luck. There are men who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in the poverty of a wretched old age the misfortunes of their lives. Luck for ever runs One, with a against them, and for others. good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time a-fishing, when he should have been in the office. Another, with a good trade, perpetually burnt up bis luck by his hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him. Another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence at everything but his business. Another who steadily followed his trade, as steadily followed his bottle. Another who was honest and constant to his work, erred by Cowper. his perpetual misjudgments-he lacked dis I would serve my king, die for him. As every true-born subject ought. LOYALTY-Friends to. We, too, are friends to loyalty. Otway. cretion. Hundreds lose their luck by indorsing, by sanguine speculations, by trusting fraudulent men, and by dishonest gains. A never has good luck who has a bad wife. I never knew an early-rising, hardworking, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad inck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry, are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of. But when I see a tatterdemalion creeping out of a grocery late in the forenoon, with his hands stuck into his pockets, the rim of his bat turned up, and the crown knocked in, I know he has had bad luck-for the worst of all luck is to be a sluggard, a knave, or a tippler. Addison. The luxurious man oppresses that nature which should be the foundation of his joy, and, by false reasoning, he is made by this vice to believe, that because some ease and aliments are pleasant, therefore the more he takes of them the more he will be pleased. And the first proofs by which he is convinced that he is cheated in this, are those diseases into which those vices, when they are swelled, overflow and destroy that ground which a he begins to understand that a mediocrity is gentle watering would have refreshed. Then the golden rule, and that proportion is to be observed in all the course of our life. Luxury makes a man so soft, that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Whereas the frugal and temperate man can, by fasting LUXURY. LUXURY. till a convenient time, make any food pleasant. LUXURY-Excess of. perance that health and ease which his false LUXURY-Excess of. I will have all my beds blown up, not stuff'd; But coldly imitated. My meat shall all come in in Indian shells, With tongues of carps, dormice, and camels' Boil'd i' the spirit of sol and dissolved pearl; And I will eat these broths with spoons of Headed with diamond and carbuncle; My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calver'd Knots, godwits, lampreys; I myself will have Oil'd mushrooms. We will eat such at a meal: Though nature lost her kind, she were our LUXURY-Enervating mfluence of Alas! thy country's manners It is a shame that man, that has the seeds I would have you proceed and seek for fame Out of the talons of the Roman eagle, And dress yourself up like a pageant, T adorn your mistress' fan, or tell your dream; These are fine elements. LUXURY-Victories of. Shackerly. There in her den lay pompous Luxury, And gen'ral victories as she had won; Besides small states and kingdoms ruin'd, From pole to pole, by her ensnaring charms ment. It tempts them to rush into danger, from the mere expectation of impunity, and when practised with frequent success, it teaches them to confound the gradations of guilt, from the effects of which there is, in their imaginations at least, one sure and common protection. It corrupts the early simplicity of youth; it blasts the fairest blossoms of genius; and will most assuredly counteract every effort by which we may hope to improve the talents, and mature the virtues, of those whom it infects. Parr. MADNESS, MADNESS. reason and sanity could not so prosperously be MADNESS-Sources of. delivered of. Shakspeare. O thou eternal Mover of the heavens, "Envy, hatred, malice," and all other malignant passions, as sources of madness, scarcely need be touched upon; indeed, the intellect is half gone, before the individual can be brought to the indulgences of these corroding excitations. I am not a disciple of Owen. I verily think that life without passion were a sorry existence indeed,-a Chinese landscape, without proportion or perspective, light or shadows; but I am enthusiast enough to suppose, that a gradual improvement is coming to be effected upon society at large. by a growing conviction, that to envy, and hate, and destroy our fellow-men, is not only unchristian but unmeaning. Uwins. MADNESS-Symptoms of. My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd: bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word,-which madness Would gambol from. Shakspeare. MADNESS-Test of What, I may be asked, is my test of insanity! I have none. I know of no unerring, infallible, and safe rule or standard, applicable to all cases. The only logical and philosophic mode of procedure in doubtful cases of mental alienation, is to compare the mind of the lunatic at the period of his suspected insanity with its prior natural and healthy condition; in other words, to consider the intellect in relation to itself, and to no artificial á priori test. Each individual case must be viewed in its own relations. It is clear that such is the opinion of the judges, notwithstanding they maintained, as a test of responsibility, a knowledge of right and wrong. Can any other conclusion be drawn from the language used by the judges when propounding in the House of Lords their view of insanity in connection with crime? "The facts," they say, "of each particular case must of necessity present themselves with endless variety and with every shade of difference in each case; and it is their duty to declare the law upon each particular case, upon facts proved before them; and after hearing arguments of counsel thereon, they deem it at once impracticable, and at the same time dangerous to the administration of justice, if it were practicable, to attempt to make minute applications of the principles involved in the answers given by them to the questions proposed." This is a safe, judicious, and philosophic mode of investigating these painful cases; and if strictly adhered to, the ends of |