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Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind.

DREAMS-Nature of.

Shakspeare.

Dreams, where thought, in fancy's maze, runs mad. Young.

DREAMS-not to be Regarded.

DRESS-Moral Effect of.

Dress has a moral effect upon the conduct of mankind. Let any gentleman find himself with dirty boots, old surtout, soiled neckcloth, and a general negligence of dress, he will, in all probability, find a corresponding disposition by negligence of address. Sir Jonah Barrington.

Regard not dreams, since they are but the DRESS-Gaudiness of. images of our hopes and fears.

DREAMS-Repeaters of Thought.

Cuto.

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If you are a young lady, and employ a certain number of sempstresses for a given time, in making a given number of simple and serviceable dresses-suppose seven, of which you can wear one yourself for half the winter, and give six away to poor girls who have none-you are spending your money unselfishly. But if you employ the same number of sempstresses for the same number of days in making four, or five, or six beautiful flounces for your own ball dress-flounces which will clothe no one but yourself, and which you yourself will be unable to wear at more than one ball-you are employing your money selfishly. I say further, that as long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be Do question at all but that splendour of dress sa crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but, as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at-not lace. Ruskin.

DRESS-Evil Effects of.

Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean.

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysandei knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. Zimmerman.

DRESS-Influence of.

I have no intention to argue against gold chains, velvet caps, or sables, or anything of this nature; but, granting this furniture may be somewhat of a guard to authority, yet no public person has any reason to value himself

upon it; for the design of this sort of state is only to comply with the weakness of the multitude. It is an innocent stratagem to deceive them into their duty, and to awe them into a just sense of obedience. A great man will rather contemn this kind of finery, than think himself considerable by it. He will rather be sorry that his authority needs the support of so little an artifice, and depends, in any measure, upon the use of such trifles. To stoop to the vulgar notion of things, and establish one's reputation by counterfeit signs of worth, must be an uneasy task to a noble mind. Besides, we are not to think the magistrate cannot support his office without fine clothes; for, if he is furnished with general prudence, with abilities particular to his business, and has a competent share of power, he needs not doubt his influence over the people. Jeremy Collier.

DRESS-an Index of the Mind.

As the index tells us the contents of stories, and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it internal quality of the soul; and there cannot were a manual note from the margin) all the be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding, than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside. Massinger.

DRESS-Rules for Regulating.

Let women paint their eyes with tints of Cowper. chastity, insert into their ears the word of God,

DRESS.

tie the yoke of Christ around their necks, and adorn their whole persons with the silk of sanctity and the damask of devotion: let them adopt that chaste and simple, that neat and elegant, style of dress, which so advantageously displays the charms of real beauty, instead of those preposterous fashions and fantastical draperies of dress which, while they conceal some few defects of person, expose so many defects of mind, and sacrifice to ostentatious finery all those mild, amiable, and modest virtues, by which the female character is so pleasingly adorned. Tertullian.

DRESS-no Sign of Wealth.

The person whose clothes are extremely

fine, I am too apt to consider as not being possessed of any superiority of fortune, but resembling those Indians who are found to wear all the gold they have in the world in a bob at the nose. Goldsmith.

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less what becomes of all. Indeed, he dares DRUNKENNESS-an Incurable Vice. not enter on a serious thought, or if he do, it is but such melancholy that it sends him to be drunk again. Bishop Earle.

DRUNKENNESS-Madness of.

A drunken man is like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and the third drowns him. Shakspeare.

Troops of furies march in the drunkard's triumph. Zimmerman.

DRUNKENNESS-Mischiefs of.

When this vice has taken fast hold of a man, farewell industry, farewell emulation, farewell attention to things worthy of attention, farewell love of virtuous society, farewell decency of manners, and farewell, too, even an attention to person: everything is sunk by this predominant and brutal appetite. In how many instances do we see men who have begun life with the brightest prospects before them, and who have closed it without one ray of comfort and consolation. Young men, with good fortunes, good talents, good tempers, good hearts, and sound constitutions, only by being drawn into the vortex of the drunkard, have become by degrees the most loathsome

I drank; I liked it not; 'twas rage, 'twas and despicable of mankind.

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the drunkard there is no happiness for any one. All is uncertainty and anxiety. He is not the same man for any one day at a time. No one knows of his outgoings or his incomings. When he will rise, or when he will lie down to rest, is wholly a matter of chance. That which he swallows for what he calls pleasure brings pain, as hourly as the night brings the morning. Poverty and misery are in the train. To avoid these results, we are called upon to make no sacrifice. Abstinence requires no aid to accomplish it. Our own will is all that is requisite; and if we have not the will to avoid contempt, disgrace, and misery, we deserve neither relief nor compassion, Cobbett. DUELLING-Absurdity of.

Duelling, as a punishment, is absurd, because it is an equal chance whether the punishment falls upon the offender or the person offended; nor is it much better as a reparation, it being difficult to explain in what the satisfaction consists, or how it tends to undo injury, or to afford a compensation for the damage already sustained. Paley.

DUELLING-Anecdote of.

I have heard a story of a general officer in ceiving a challenge, he went to the challenger, our service which pleased me much. On reand told him he supposed they were to fight on equal terms; "but as things now stand," said he, "the terms are very unequal: I have a subsist on but my appointments; you have a wife and five children, who have nothing to considerable fortune, and no family. To place us, therefore, on an equality, I desire you will go with me to a conveyancer, and settle upon my wife and children, if I should fall, the value of my appointments. When you have signed such a conveyance, if you insist upon it, I will then fight you." The deliberate mauner in which the general said this, and the

DUELLING.

apparent justice of the requisition, made his antagonist reflect a little on the idea of leaving a wife and five children to beggary; and as the affair could not well stand reflection, it went off. Gilpin.

DUELLING-Folly of.

With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things, in this so surprising world, strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder, whirl around, and simultaneously, by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, off-hand, become air, and non-extant-the little spitfires! Carlyle.

DUELLIST-Perils of the.

Ah me! what perils do environ

DUTIES

By the lamp's dismal twilight! So he lies,
Circled with evil, till his very soul
Unmoulds its essence, hopelessly deform'd
By sights of evermore deformity!
With other ministrations thou, O Nature!
Healest thy wandering and distemper'd child:
Thou pourest on him thy soft influences,
Thy sunny hues, fair forms, and breathing
sweets;

Thy melodies of woods and winds, and waters!
Till he relent, and can no more endure
To be a jarring and a dissonant thing
Amid this general dance and minstrelsy.
But, bursting into tears, wins back his way,
His angry spirit heal'd and harmonised
By the benignant touch of love and beauty.
Coleridge.
DUNGEON-Horrors of a.
There to lie,

Where never sunbeam pierced the solid gloom, Where rattling chains, and doors that grind the hinge,

The man that meddles with cold iron. Butler. To let in new distress, make hideous concert.

DULNESS-Qualities of.

In eldest time, ere mortals writ or read,
Ere Pallas issued from the Thund 'rer's head,
Dulness o'er all possess'd her ancient right,
Daughter of Chaos and eternal Night:
Fates in their dotage this fair idiot gave,
Gross as her sire, and as her mother grave,
Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind,
She ruled, in native anarchy, the mind. Pope.

DULNESS-Relief in.

What a comfort a dull but kindly person is to be sure at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas lamp does not bring more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our minds. Holmes.

DUNGEON-of the Middle Ages.
And this place my forefathers made for man!
This is the process of our love and wisdom
To each poor brother who offends against us-
Most innocent, perhaps-and what if guilty?
Is this the only cure? Merciful God!
Each pore and natural outlet shrivell'd up
By ignorance and parching poverty,
His energies roll back upon his heart,
And stagnate and corrupt, till, changed to
poison,

They break out on him, like a loathsome plague-spot.

Then we call in our pamper'd mountebanks;
And this is their best cure! Uncomforted
And friendless solitude, groaning, and tears,
And savage faces, at the clanking hour,
Seen through the steam and vapours of his
dungeon.

Francis.

Then to a dungeon's depth I sent both bound Where stow'd with snakes and adders, now they lodge;

Two planks their bed, slipp'ry with ooze and

slime,

The rats brush o'er their faces with their tails.
And croaking paddocks crawl upon their
limbs.
Dryden.

Thou subterranean sepulchre of peace!
Thou home of horror! hideous nest of crimes!
Guilt's first sad stage to her dark road to hell;
Ye thick-barr'd sunless passages for air,
To keep alive the wretch that longs to die!
Ye low-brow'd arches, through whose sullen
gloom

Resound the ceaseless groans of pale despair! Ye dreadful shambles, caked with human blood!

Receive a guest from far, far other scenes.

DUTIES-Christian.

Young.

It is owing to the forbidden and unlovely constraint with which men of low conceptions act when they think they conform themselves to religion, as well as the more odious conduct of hypocrites, that the word Christian does not carry with it at first view all that is great, worthy, friendly, generous, and heroic. The man who suspends his hope of the reward of worthy actions till after death, who can bestow unseen, who can overlook hatred, do good to his slanderer, who can never be angry at his friend, never revengeful to his enemy, is I certainly formed for the benefit of society.

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Yet these are so far from heroic virtues, that DUTY-Firmness in,
they are but the ordinary duties of a Christian.
Addison.
DUTIES-Performance of.

Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous; not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing; but contrariwise, blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing. St. Peter.

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There are a thousand things in life
Which pass unheeded in a life of joy,
As thine hath been: till breezy sorrow comes
To ruffle it; and daily duties paid

Hardly at first, at length will bring repose
To the sad mind that studies to perform them.
Talfourd.

DUTY-Conviction of.

That we ought to do an action, is of itself a fficient and ultimate answer to the questions, Why we should do it?-how we are bliged to do it? The conviction of duty implies the soundest reason, the strongest obligation, of which our nature is susceptible. DUTY-Eternal.

Whewell

Powers depart,
Possessions vanish, and opinions change,
And passions hold a fluctuating seat;
But by the storm of circumstance unshaken
And subject neither to eclipse nor wane,
Duty exists: immutably survives

For our support, the measures and the forms
Which an abstract intelligence supplies;
Whose kingdom is where time and space are
Wordsworth.

not.

Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the "still small voice." Dobell.

DUTY-leads to Glory.

Not once or twice in our rough island-story
The path of duty was the way to glory:
He that walks it, only thirsting
For the right, and learns to deaden
Love of self, before his journey closes,
He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting
Into glossy purples, which outredden
All voluptuous garden-roses.

Not once or twice in our fair island-story:
The path of duty was the way to glory:
He, that ever following her commands,
On with toil of heart and knees and hands,
Thro' the long gorge to the far light has won
His path upward, and prevail'd,
Shall find the toppling crags of duty scaled
Are close upon the shining table-lands
To which our God Himself is moon and sun.
Tennyson.

DUTY-Knowledge of.

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful | part of philosophy. Whately.

DUTY-Nature of.

Duty is far more than love. It is the upholding law through which the weakest become strong, without which all strength is unstable as water. No character, however harmoniously framed and gloriously gifted, can be complete without this abiding principle: it is the cement which binds the whole moral edifice together, without which all power, goodness, intellect, truth, happiness, love itself, can have no permanence; but all the fabric of existence crumbles away from under us, and leaves us at last sitting in the midst of a ruin, -astonished at our own desolation.

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Conviction, were it never so excellent, is worthless till it convert itself into conduct. Nay, properly, conviction is not possible till then; inasmuch as all speculation is by nature endless, formless, a vortex amid vortices: only by a felt indubitable certainty of experience does it find any centre to revolve round, and so fashion itself into a system. Most true is it, as a wise man teaches us, that "doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by action." On which ground, too, let him who gropes pain

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