been watered by the tears of the widow, the orphan, or the patriot. But generations have passed away, and mourners and mourned have sunk together into forgetfulness. The aged crone, or the smooth-tongued beadle, as now he hurries you through aisles and chapel, utters with measured cadence and unmeaning tone, for the thousandth time, the name and lineage of the once honoured dead; and then gladly dismisses you, to repeat again his well-conned lesson to another group of idle passers-by. Such, in its most august form, is all the immortality that matter can confer. It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered by after ages. It is by thought that has aroused my intellect from its slumbers, which has "given lustre to virtue and dignity to truth," or by those examples which have inflamed my soul with the love of goodness, and not by means of sculptured marble, that I hold communion with Shakespeare and Milton, with Johnson and Burke, with Howard and Wilberforce.—Wayland.

XXVIII.

XPERIENCE WITHOUT LEARNING.-Verilie they bee fewest in number that bee happie or wise by un

learned experience. And looke well upon the former life of those fewe, whether your example be old or young, who, without learning, have gathered, by long experience, a little wisdome and some happiness; and when you doe consider what mischiefe they have committed, what dangers they have escaped (and twentie for one doe perish in the adventure), then think well with yourselfe, whether ye would that your own sonne should cum to wisdome and happiness by the way of such experience or no.-Ascham.

dustry without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages, which, like the hands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their assigned points, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.-Reynolds

XXXI

OWER CANNOT BE SUPPORTED BY INJUSTICE.-It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness -so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.-Demosthenes.

XXXIII.

HYSIC.-Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise or temperance.—Addison.

XXXIV.

MAGINARY EVILS.-Imaginary evils soon become real ones, by indulging our reflections on them; as he

who is in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or wainscot, can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.-Swift.