timidity and indolence to indefatigable exertions and heroic exploits. The power to love to support the affectionate, in the most trying situations, is so great, that the very consciousness of being beloved by the object of our attachment, will disarm of its terrors even death itself. As the tender affections may be exhibited in such various forms, to contribute at once to our improvement and delight, it is a pity that men of genius should sometimes degrade themselves to win our attachment to worthless characters, or to allure us to a vicious, indolent, or effeminate life. And although it is, indeed, meritorious employment to warn the inexperienced against the arts of the profligate. and to represent the errors and crimes into which the most amiable dispositions are apt to be betrayed; it is also of the highest importance, sometimes to exhibit our fellow-creatures in a more favourable point of view, to rouse our emulation by characters who unite the respectable to the amiable qualities, and to show, what is not unfrequently exemplified in the world, how the tender affections, when properly directed, are productive of the most generous and heroic virtues.-D'Israeli.

CXXI.

ANDOUR OF GREATER WORTH THAN PRUDENCE.-Simplicity and gentleness are more beneficial to the human race than the prudence of all its individuals; for nobody has ever described the golden age as composed of prudent, but of candid men. If it be objected, that much of that which is called simplicity in women is thoughtlessness or inattention, I reply, that much of that which is called prudence in men, is fallacy, duplicity, and treachery, which are

CXXIII.

ORGIVENESS OF INJURIES.-It is the mild and quiet half of the world, who are generally outraged and borne down by the other half of it; but in this they have the advantage, whatever be the sense of their wrongs, that pride stands not so watchful a sentinel over their forgiveness, as it does in the fierce and froward; we should, all of us, I believe, be more forgiving than we are, would the world but give us leave; but it is apt to interpose its ill offices in remissions, especially of this kind: the truth is, it has its laws, to which the heart is not always a party; and acts so like an unfeeling engine in all cases without distinction, that it requires all the firmness of the most settled humanity to bear up against it.-Sterne.

CXXIV.

UBLIC AND PRIVATE EDUCATION.-It is an observation sanctioned by the almost unanimous testimony of those whose opinion is founded upon experience, that the vices of a public school are of a nature to be easily detected, and to be corrected by discipline: while those of private education creep on in concealment, and frequently arrive at a remediless degree of maturity before they are discovered. The remark of the judicious Dr. Barrow on this head is at once striking and just. "The perpetual restraints under which the private pupil lives, and the constant presence of those much older than himself, do not suffer his propensities and passions to appear in their true colours; and consequently their course cannot be sufficiently regulated, nor their excesses restrained. He does not grow open and ingenuous