those words, whereby they will take in readily our sense and cogency;-some people have said that an author who doth a great deal of this, either calleth his reader fool, or tacitly condemneth his own style.

"There is a style of reproof that is very powerful, which subjects us to no imputation of superciliousness, and which often checks that eager pursuit of folly or vice which argument might inflame;-I mean an expressive silence, and the marked regular opposition of wise, meritorious conduct."

What taught the parrot to cry hail ?

What taught the chattering pie his tale?
Hunger!

That sharpener of the wits

Which gives e'en fools some thinking fits.

Beards are in some countries a sign of mourning, and in others the want of them answers the same purpose.

I have never known a Trader in Philanthropy who was not wrong in heart somewhere or other. Individuals so distinguished are usually unhappy in their family relations;-men, not benevolent or beneficent to individuals, but almost hostile to them, yet lavishing money, and labour, and time on the race, the abstract The cosmopolitism which does not spring out

notion.

of, and blossom upon, the deep-rooted stem of nationality or patriotism, is of spurious and rotten growth.

Time! Time, the pedlar whose wallet is crammed with all the wares of earth. Time, the beautifier and destroyer, the bearer and the resumer of all blessings. Time, who carries the keen knife, and the healing balm; though ungrateful man, mindful of injuries alone, paints but the sweeping scythe, and leaves unsung the beneficent hand that brings so many flowers for his enjoyment.

How difficult it is to dissociate a place from the person with whose memory it is connected; and how, on reaching the one, the eye looks round expecting to encounter the other also!

Servants resemble soldiers; they like to know what is expected of them, and they can't bear a capricious and unreasonable master: when they once know what their duty is, depend upon it they like you all the better for keeping them up to it, and only despise you for weakness if you don't do so.

A Schoolmaster said of himself, "I am like a Hone, I sharpen a number of Blades, but I wear myself in doing it."

The Good-will of the Benefactor is the fountain of all Benefits, or, at least, the stamp that makes them valuable

and enment. Some there are that take the matter for the benet, and tx the obligation by weight and measure. When anything is given a them, they presently est à na. What may such a house be watì! such an öfer such in sin of the wee the beneût which s any the sign, and macà d'e: De the obligation rests in the mini anà ng i che matin,

"her neals or get schier i prove that both henofìs and nouns were ther value fan the interzah, what over us these

Boccalini's "Traveller" was so pestered with the noise of grasshoppers in his ears, that he alighted from his horse in great wrath to kill them all. "This," says the author, "was troubling himself to no manner of purpose. Had he pursued his journey without taking notice of them, the troublesome insects would have died of themselves in a very few weeks, and he would have suffered nothing from them." The deduction from this fable is obvious.

"Perhaps," wrote Lord Byron, in a letter, “you have heard of a late answer of Sheridan to the watchman, who found him bereft of that 'divine particle of air,' called reason. The watchman found Sherry in the street, fuddled and bewildered, and almost insensible. 'Who are you, sir?' No answer. 'What's your name?' A hiccup. ?' A hiccup. 'What's your name?' Answer in a slow, deliberate and impressive tone- Wilberforce.' Is not that Sherry all over ?”

When dying, Sheridan was requested to undergo an operation. He replied, that "He had already submitted to two, which were enough for one man's lifetime." Being asked what they were, he answered-" Having his hair cut, and sitting for his picture."

Charles Lamb had a dislike to Monkeys, on the principle (he said) that "it was not pleasant to look upon one's Poor Relations."

Doctor Lettsom's manner of signing his prescriptions (I. Lettsom) occasioned the following humorous jeu d'esprit, attributed to Lord Erskine, and with which the doctor was much amused:

“Whenever patients comes to I,

I physics, bleeds, and sweats 'em ;
If after that they choose to die,

What's that to me?-I. Letts 'em."

A Turk, who had been some time at Vienna, where the hat is always taken off in saluting an acquaintance, wishing to curse a fellow-believer, said—

"May thy soul have no more rest than the hat of a German !"

Louis the Fourteenth addressed the following compliment to Massillon, one of the most eloquent of preachers, and perhaps unsurpassed for beauty of style-" My Father, I have heard many great pulpit orators, and I have been much pleased with them; but every time I hear you, I like you more, and myself less."

It looks handsome now-a-days, to be attended by a bailiff; it shows one had credit once!

Misfortunes are like the creations of Cadmus ; they destroy one another.

Nothing so engages persons on whom one depends, as any expressed determination of seeking independence.