How frequently is the honesty and integrity of a man disposed of by a smile or a shrug. How many good and generous actions have been sunk into oblivion by a distrustful look, or stamped with the imputation of proceeding from bad motives, by a mysterious and seasonable whisper. Look into companies of those whose gentle natures should disarm them, we shall find no better account. How large a portion of chastity is sent out of the world by distant hints- nodded away, and cruelly winked into suspicion by the envy of those who are past all temptation of it themselves. How often does the reputation of a helpless creature bleed by a report—which the party who is at the pains to propagate it beholds with much pity and fellow-feeling-that she is heartily sorry for it-hopes in God it is not true. However, as Archbishop Tillotson wittily observes upon it, is resolved in the meantime to give the report her pass, that at least it may have fair play to take its fortune in the world-to be believed or not, according to the charity of those into whose hands it shall happen to fall. SLANDER-Repelling. To hear an open slander is a curse: Addison. SLAVE-Evil of becoming a. Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day He must be a perpetual slave, who knows not how to live upon a little. Horace. SLAVERY--the Cause of Natural Decay. When we read Gibbon's eloquent and under the mild sceptre of the Antonines; an magnificent description of the Roman empire empire comprehending the entire civilized world of that day; full of flourishing cities, guarded at its frontiers by those unconquered legions, out of whose camps new cities sprang up; intersected in every direction by great and almost indestructible military roads, whilst its commercial navy united all the coasts of the Mediterranean, and, from the Red Sea, visited India; internally connected by a regular coast in the service of the government; covered with the monuments which, even in their ruins, continue to excite the amazement of posterity, and with schools for science and art, not only in Rome and Italy, but in Spain, Gaul, Greece, Africa, and Asia Minor; whose teachers were paid by the state, and encouraged, rewarded, and valued to such a degree that Marcus Aurelius seems rather to have wished to be a scholastic philosopher than an emperor;-when this picture rises up in our imagination, and we bear in mind the wonderful development of the Roman law, and of all forms, judicial and administrative, it is difficult to conceive that we contemplate a merely protracted decline; material proOvid. sperity, which is, nevertheless, partial and fallacious; mechanism with only external moving power; an artificial formation without life; and a general unhealthiness of mind which the upper classes sustain with stoic indifference, whilst the masses sink deeper and deeper in degradation. Yet so it was, and why?-The majority in the ancient world were slaves. Geyer. SLANDERER-Admonition against a. Listen not to a tale-bearer or slanderer, for he tells thee nothing out of good will; but as he discovereth of the secrets of others, so he will of thine in turn. Socrates. He that shall rail against his absent friends, he can, And only to be thought a witty man; That man's a knave-be sure beware of him. SLANDERERS-Rebuking. SLAVERY-Emancipation from. No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery, the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation. Curran. SLAVERY-Evils of. The unavoidable tendency of slavery everywhere is to render labour disreputable; a SLAVERY. result superlatively wicked, since it inverts the natural order, and destroys the harmony of society. Black slavery is rife in Brazil, and Brazilians shrink with something allied to horror from manual employment. In the spirit of privileged classes of other lands, they say they are not born to labour, but to command. Ask a respectable native youth of a family in low circumstances why he does not learn a trade, and earn an independent living. ten to one but he will tremble with indignation, and inquire if you mean to insult bim! "Work, work!" screamed one; "we have blacks to do that." Yes, hundreds and hundreds of families have one or two slaves, on whose earnings alone they live. Ewbank. Sleep, gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber; Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, And lull'd with sounds of sweetest melody? With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, Shakspeare. It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that SLEEP. you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone. A gentle failure of the perceptions creeps over you; the spirit of consciousness disengages itself once more, and with slow and hushing degrees, like a mother detaching her hand from that of a sleeping child, the mind seems to have a balmy lid closing over it, like the eye-it is closed-the mysterious spirit has gone to take its airy rounds. Leigh Hunt. The breath of peace was fanning her glorious | brow! her head was bowed a very little forward, and a tress, escaping from its bonds, fell by the side of her pure white temple, and close to her just opened lips; it hung there motionless! no breath disturbed its repose! she slept as an angel might sleep, having accomplished the mission of her God. Hawthorn. SLEEP-allied to Death. Sleep hath its own world; A boundary between the things misnamed Death and existence. Бугов. SLEEP-the Brother of Death. Sleep, death's beautiful brother,—fairest phenomenon-poetical reality,-thou sweet collapsing of the weary spirit; thou mystery that everyone knows; thou remnant of primeval innocence and bliss; for Adam siept in Paradise. To sleep-there's a drowsy mellifluence in the very word that would almost serve to interpret its meaning,-to shut up the senses and hoodwink the soul; to dismiss the world; to escape from one's self; to be in ignorance of our own existence; to stagnate upon the earth, just breathing out the hours, not living them-" Doing no mischief, only dreaming of it;" neither merry nor melancholy, something between both, and better than either. Best friend of frail humanity, and, like all other friends, best estimated in its loss. Longfellow. prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, but enables it to ramble as it pleases. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have a consciousness of all that is going on about us, and even if we dream, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two. Nor is this the most striking phenomenon incidental to such a state. It is an ascertained fact, that although our senses of touch and sight be for the time dead, yet our sleeping thoughts, and the visionary scenes that pass before us, will be influenced by the mere silent presence of some external object, which may not have been near us when we closed our eyes, and of whose vicinity we have no waking consciousness. SLEEP-the Gift of God. Dickens. God gives sleep to the bad, in order that the good may be undisturbed. Sadi. SLEEP-Heaviness of. SLEEP-Necessary. In the morning, when you awake, accustom yourself to think first upon God, or something in order to his service; and at night also let him close thine eyes, and let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time beyond the needs and conveniencies of nature: and sometimes be curious to see the preparation which the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers of the east! Jeremy Taylor. SLEEP-Qualities of. Come, sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace, Oh, sleep! sweet sleep! Whatever form thou takest, thou art fair, Holding unto our lips thy goblet fill'd Out of Oblivion's well, a healing draught! Longfellow. SLEEP-Necessary Rules of. There is no fact more clearly established in the physiology of man than this, that the brain expends its energies and itself during the hours of wakefulness, and that these are recuperated during sleep. If the recuperation does not equal the expenditure, the brain withers-this is insanity. Thus it is that, in What means this heaviness that hangs upon early English history, persons who were con demned to death by being prevented from sleeping, always died raving maniacs; thus it is also that those who are starved to death become insane, -the brain is not nourished, and they cannot sleep. The practical inferences are three-1st. Those who think most, who do most brain-work, require most sleep. 2nd. That time "saved" from necessary sleep is infallibly destructive to mind, body, and estate.-3rd. Give yourself, your children, your servants,-give all that are under you, the fullest amount of sleep they will take, by compelling them to go to bed at some regular, early hour, and to rise in the morning the moment they awake; and within a fortnight, Nature, with almost the regularity of the rising sun, will unloose the bonds of sleep the moment enough repose has been secured for the wants of the system. This is the only safe and sufficient rule; and as to the question how much sleep any one requires, each must be a rule for himself,-great Nature will never fail to write it out to the observer under the regulations just given. Dr. Forbes Winslow. SLEEP-Unconsciousness of. The crowd are gone, the revellers at rest; The courteous host, and all-approving guest, SLEEP. Again to that accustom'd couch must creep, Hate's working brain, and lull'd ambition's O'er each vain eye oblivion's pinions wile, Alike in naked helplessness recline; Glad for awhile to heave unconscious breath, That sleep, the loveliest, since it dreams the SMILE. caravan of Usbecks," said Khan Saat, drawing SMILE-Influence of a. A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face, and redeems an ugly one. A smile, however, should not become habitual, or insipidity is the result; nor should the mouth break into a smile on one side, the other remaining passive and unmoved; for this imparts an air of deceit and grotesqueness to the face. A disagreeable smile distorts the lines of beauty, and is more repulsive than a frown. There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness; others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing Sloth is the torpidity of the mental faculties; tenderness; others brighten by their spiritual the sluggard is a living insensible. SLOTH-Evils of. Zimmerman. Sloth is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People that have nothing❘ to do are quickly tired of their own company. Jeremy Collier. I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man. Solomon. SLOVENLINESS-Evils of. Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him. Theophrastus. vivacity. SMILE-A Maiden's. Lavater. Down through her limbs a drooping languor A doubtful smile dwelt like a clouded moon SMILE-Peculiar to Man. A smile! Nothing on earth can smile but man! Gems may flash reflected light; but what is a diamond-flash compared with an eye-flash and mirth-flash? Flowers cannot claim. It is the prerogative of man; it is the smile this is a charm that even they cannot colour which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy-these three. It is the light in the window of the face, by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend, that it is at home and waiting. A face that cannot smile is like a bud that cannot blossom, and dries up on the stalk. Laughter is day, and sobriety is night, and a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. But all smiles are not alike. The cheerfulness of vanity is not like the cheerfulness of love; the smile of gratified pride is not like the radiance of goodness and truth. The rains of summer fall alike upon all trees and shrubs; but when the storm passes, and every leaf hangs a-drip, each gentle puff of wind brings down the petty shower, and every drop brings with it something of the nature of the leaf or blossom on which it hung; the roadside leaf yields dust, the walnut-leaf bitterness; some flowers poison, while the grape-blossom, the rose, the sweetbrier, lend their aroma to the twinkling dew, and send them down in perfumed drops. And so it is with smiles, which every heart perfumes according to its nature-selfishness is acrid; pride, bitter; goodwill, sweet and fragrant. Henry Ward Beecher. SMILES-Influence of. Of all the appearances of the human countenance, methinks a smile is the most extraordinary. It plays with a surprising agreeableness in the eye, breaks out with the brightest distinction, and sits like a glory upon the countenance. What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigour! To see the soul flash in the face at this rate, one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to goodhumour; as much as to say, If people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward. Jeremy Collier. SMILES-Different Kinds of She had just time to look up and smile. And oh! what a sight there is in that word smile-it changes colour like a chameleon. There's a vacant smile, a cold smile, a smile of hate; a satiric smile, an affected smile, a smile of approbation, a friendly smile; but, above all, a smile of love. A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy-the smile that accepts the lover afore the words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the firstborn baby, and assures him of a mother's love. Haliburton. SMILES-Power of. What smiles! They were the effluence of fine intellect, of true courage; they lit up her marked lineaments, her thin face, her sunken grey eye, like reflections from the aspect of an angel. SMOKING-Gossip about. Tobacco was formerly cultivated to a considerable extent in the country. It is true that Worcestershire cannot boast of being the first place in England where the "wicked weed" was grown. That was an honour claimed by our near neighbours of Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire, who are said to have profited greatly (in a pecuniary sense, I suppose) by its cultivation. The price of the article was much reduced by the time of James II., when the "best Virginia" was but 2s. per pound, and "two gross of best glazed pipes and a box with them, 3s. 4d." Previous to that time tobacco had become almost a necessary among the upper classes, nor could the Parliamentary representatives of the city of Worcester be despatched up to town until the "collective wisdom" had smoked and drunk sack with them at the Globe, or some other hostelry. As early as 1621 it was moved in the House of Commons by Sir William Stroud, that he "would have tobacco banished wholly out of the kingdom, and that it may not be brought in from any part nor used amongst us," and Sir Grey Palmes "that if tobacco be not England; for it is now so common that he hath banished it will overthrow 100,000 men in seen ploughmen take it as they are at plough." At a later period of the century, so inveterate had the practice become, that an order appears on the journals of the house, "that no member in the house do presume to smoke tobacco in the gallery, or at the table of the house, sitting at committees." Walter White. The keener tempests rise; and fuming dun |