DCV.

What's a fine person, or a beauteous face,
Unless deportment gives them decent grace?
Bless'd with all other requisites to please,
Some want the striking elegance of ease;
The curious eye their awkward movement tires
They seem like puppets led about by wires:
Others like statues, in one posture still,
Give great ideas of the workman's skill.
Wond'ring his art, we praise the more we view,
And only grieve he gave not motion too.

DCVI.

Churchill.

False happiness is like false money, it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.-Pope.

DCVII.

Better

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.--Burke.

DCVIII.

It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one pro crastinates, one can do it when one will, and, therefore, one seldom does it at all; whereas, those who have a great deal of business, must (to use a vulgar expression) buckle to it; and then they always find time enough to do it in.-Chesterfield.

DCIX.

When fumes of wines do once the brain possess,
Then follows straight an indisposedness
Throughout, the legs so fettered in that case
They cannot with their reeling trunk keep pace.
The tongue trips, mind droops, eyes stand full of water
Noise, hiccough, brawls, and quarrels follow after.

Lucretius.

DCX.

The passion of love makes almost every man a rhymer, though not a poet.-Dryden.

DCXI.

The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a house from which to run away.
In Britain what is many a lordly seat
But a discharge in full for an estate.

DCXII.

Young.

An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes il to; the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.-Addison.

DCXIII.

Who'er attempts weak causes to support,
Ought to be very sure he's able for❜t,
And not mistake strong lungs and impudence
For harmony of words and want of sense:
Fools only make attempts beyond their will
A wise man's pow'r's the limit of his will.
Congreve.

DCXIV.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox. -Hughes.

DCXV.

We of this age have discovered a shorter and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or thinking. The most accomplished way of using books at present is twofold: either first to serve them as some men do lords, learn their titles exactly, and then brag of their acquaintance; or secondly, which is indeed the choicer, the profounder, and politer method, to get a thorough insight into the index by which the

whole book is governed and turned, like fishes by the tail For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate, requires an expense of times and forms; therefore, men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.-Swift.

DCXVI.

Actors I've seen, and of no vulgar name,
Who being from one part possess'd of fame,
Whether they are to laugh, cry, whine, or bawl,
Still introduce the fav'rite part in all.

DCXVII.

Churchill.

The great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the great, who have nothing but greatness: the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit, they have not virtue.-Bruyere.

DCXVIII.

It is in vain to put wealth within the reach of him who will not stretch out his hand to take it.-Johnson.

DCXIX.

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colours but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.-Selden.

DCXX.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at a billiardtable, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day; demands it before he can receive it in a lump.-Franklin.

DCXXI.

He that is too much in any thing, so that he giveth another occasion of society, maketh himself cheap.-Lord

Bacon.

DCXXII.

Study with care, politeness, that must teach
The modish forms of gesture and of speech.
In vain formality, with matron mien;
And pertness apes with her familiar grin:
They against nature for applauses strain,
Distort themselves, and give all others pain:
She moves with easy though with measur❜d pace,
And shows no part of study but the grace.
Stillingfleet.

DCXXIII.

Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.-Addison.

DCXXIV.

He that would make a real progress in knowledge must dedicate his age as well as youth, the latter growth as well as the first fruits, at the altar of truth.-Berkeley.

DCXXV.

Long-parted friends, that pass through easy voyages of life, receive but common gladness in their meeting; but, from a shipwreck saved, we mingle tears with our embraces.-Provoked Husband.

DCXXVI.

What less than fool is man to prog and plot,
And lavish out the cream of all his care,
To gain poor seeming goods; which, being got,
Make firm possession but a thoroughfare;

Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper;

And, being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper.

DCXXVII.

Quarles.

The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.Sir W. Raleigh.

DCXXVIII.

There is no fooling with life, when it is once turned beyond forty: the seeking of a fortune then is but a desperate after-game: it is a hundred to one if a man fling two sixes, and recover all; especially if his hand be no luckier than mine.-Cooley.

DCXXIX.

Where gaming swallows up good part of an income; as gaming debts must be paid first, most other debts will be suffered to stand still too long. The true value of money in trade consists a good deal in the circulation of it; and if tradesmen's debts are of long continuance, there must be an injustice somewhere. Either they charge no more than they should to a quick payer, and then you are unjust to them, in keeping them out of their money so long; or they will charge you more than the proper value of the goods, and then you are the occasion of injustice to yourself.— Beaumont,

DCXXX.

Partiality to ourselves is seen in a variety of instances. The liberty of the press is a blessing, when we are inclined to write against others; and a calamity, when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants; as the power of the crown is always thought too great by those who suffer through its influence, and too little by those in whose favour it is exerted.-Johnson.

DCXXXI.

Figure, I own, at first may give offence,
And harshly strike the eye's too curious sense;
But when perfections of the mind break forth,
Humour's chaste sallies, judgment's solid worth;
When the pure genuine flame, by nature taught,
Springs into sense, and every action's thought;
Before such merit all objections fly.

DCXXXII.

Churchill.

The man, who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath