300. 301. 302. 303. 304. 305. 306. Often times excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched. That which in mean men we entitle patience, Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. Or wallow naked in December's snow, 307. 309. Nought so vile, that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; Nor aught so good, but strained from that fair Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometimes 's by action dignified. 310. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. 311. O reason not the need; our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous: Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man's life is cheap as beast's. 212. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportioned thought his act. 313. The friends thou hast and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel. Beware 314. Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in, Bear it, that the opposer may beware of the 315. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. 316. The apparel oft proclaims the man. 317. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 318. 319. For loan oft loseth both itself and friend, And it must follow, as the night the day, Are to the jealous confirmations strong 320, He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, SUBJECTS FOR CONFERENCES. 1. On the mineral, animal, and vegetable kingdoms, as furnishing subjects of interesting inquiry. 2. On reflection, reading, and observation, as affording a knowledge of hu man nature. 3. On the present character of the inhabitants of New-England, as result ing from the civil, literary, and religious institutions of our fore fathers. 4. The stability of the General Government of the United States as affect ed by a national literature, common dangers, facility of mutual intercourse, and a general diffusion of knowledge. 5. The obligations of a country to her warriors, her statesmen, her artists, and her authors. 6. Public amusements, splendid religious ceremonies, warlike preparations, and a display of a rigid police, as means of despotic power. 7. The comparative virtue of the enlightened and ignorant classes. 8. On the value to a nation of the abstract sciences, the physical sciences, and literature. 9 The associations excited by visiting Italy, Greece, Egypt, and Palestine considered with reference to their ancient history. 10. On the fine arts, as affecting the morals, refinement, patriotism, and religion of a country. 11. On architecture, painting, poetry, and music, as tending to produce and perpetuate religious impressions. 2. On the comparative operation in obstructing the progress of truth, of the spirit of controversy, the reverence of antiquity, the passion of novelty, and the acquiescence in authority. .3. On the character of Hume, Robertson, Gibbon, and Mitford, as histo rians. 14. On the characteristics of man and government, as found in the savage, pastoral, agricultural, and commercial state. 15. On patronage, emulation, and personal necessity, as promotive of literary exertion. 16. On the effect of agriculture and manufactures on the morals of the community. 17. On the influence of Greek, Latin, English, and French literature on taste. 18. On novels formed on fashionable, humble, and sea life. 19. Natural, civil, ecclesiastical, and literary history, considered in relation to the tendency of each to improve and elevate the intellectual faculties. 20. Miss Edgeworth, Hannah More, and Mrs. Hemans. 21. The letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Horace Walpole, and Cowper. 22. Personal merit and powerful friends, as promoting advancement in life. 23. The influence of Young's and Cowper's Poems. 24. The commercial spirit of modern times, considered in its influence on the political, moral, and literary character of a nation. 25. Sterne, Rabelais, and Cervantes. 6. The difference of feeling in the young and the old, with regard to novation. 7. War, commerce, and missionary enterprises, as means of civilizing barbarous countries. 28. The political reformer, the schoolmaster, and the missionary. 29. The country gentleman and the plebeian. 30. Ancient and modern honors to the dead. 31. Common sense, genius, and learning, their characteristics, compara tive value, and success. 32. The prospects of a scholar, a politician, and an independent gentleman in the United States. 33. Contemporary and subsequent narratives, of historical events. 34. Franklin, Davy, and Fulton. The comparative value of their discove ries and improvements. 35. The comparative influence of natural scenery, the institutions of socie ty, and individual genius on taste. 36. Heraclitus, Democritus, Epicurus, and Diogenes. 37. The ages of Queen Elizabeth, Charles the Second, Queen Anne, and the present age, considered in a literary point of view. 38. Egypt as described by Herodotus, Greece under Pericles, the Augustan age of Rome, Spain under Isabella, Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and France under Louis the Fourteenth. 39. Reading, writing, observation of men and manners, and the study of nature, as means of intellectual development. 40. Popular elections, a free press, and general education. 41. The Roman ceremonies, the system of the Druids, the religion of the Hindoos, and the superstitions of the American Indians. 42. The literature and morals of a country, as affected by the efforts of individual minds, the prevailing religious faith, the established form of government, and the employment most general among the people. 43. Actions, words, manners, and expression of countenance, as indicative of character. 44. The poets of England, Spain, France, and Italy. 15. The military character of Napoleon, Washington, Wellington, Freder ick the Great, and Charles the Twelfth. 46. The ages of Augustus, Lorenzo de Medicis, Louis the Fourteenth, and, Queen Anne. 47. The religious institutions of Egypt, Greece, and Rome. 48. Politics, war, literature, and science, as a field for the exercise of talents. 49. Astronomy, Anatomy, the instinct of animals, and the moral and intel lectual nature of man, as affording proof of an intelligent Creator. 50. History, biography, and fiction. 51. The evils of a life of solitude, of fashion, of business, and of public office. 52. On classical learning, the study of mathematics, and of the science of the human mind, as contributing to intellectual culture. 53. On the operation of climate on the moral, intellectual, and military character. 54. On the power of the oriental, Gothic, and classical superstitions, to af fect the imagination and the feelings. 55. On pastoral, epic, and dramatic poetry. 56. On the rank and value of the mental endowments of Shakspeare, Scott, Locke, Newton, and the Earl of Chatham. 57. Roman, Grecian, and Egyptian remains. 58. On the influence of spring, summer, autumn, and winter upon the thoughts, feelings, and imagination. 59. Britain, France, Italy, and Greece, as interesting to an American trav eller. 60 On the pleasures of the antiquary, the traveller, the literary recluse. and the man of business. 61. On the beneficial effects of mechanics, chemistry, astronomy and agri culture. 62. On the influence of peace upon the condition of the agriculturist, the manufacturer, the merchant, and the professional man. 63. On the views of life taken by Democritus, Heraclitus, Diogenes, and Zeno. 64. On the tendency of poetry, history, and ethical science, to promote improvement in virtue. 65. On the influence on personal happiness, of natural temper, cultivated taste, external condition, and social intercourse. 66. On novelty, sublimity, beauty, and harmony, as sources of gratification 67. Ancient ethics, considered as pictures of manners, as proofs of genius, or as sources of entertainment. 68. The union which a harmony of motive produces between men of different pursuits, and that which results merely from a similarity of action. 69. The respective claims of poetry, painting, architecture, and sculpture as means of refinement of taste. 70. Personal memoirs and formal histories, as illustrations of national pr gress. 71. An old and a new country, as fields for enterprise. 72. The superiority of conscience to human laws. 73. Ancient and modern notions of liberty. 74. The scientific traveller and the missionary. 75. A profound philosophy and a wide observation of men, as elements << a statesman. 76. The pastoral and the hunter's life. 77. The war spirit in republics and in monarchies. 78. Modern explorations in Africa and America. 79. The influence of devotion to the person of the Sovereign in monarchen and to that of a popular favorite in republics. 80. Explorations by sea and by land. 81. The study of grammer, logic, and the mathamatics, as contributing to the development of the intellectual powers. 82. Personal beauty, elevation of rank, and the possession of riches, as passports in society. 83. The animal, the mineral, and the vegetable kingdoms, as fields of sci entific discovery. 84. The pulpit, the prers, and the school room, as efficient agents on the morals of a people. 85. The horse, the cow, and the sheep, as contributing to the comfort and convenience of mankind. 86. The expectation of reward and the fear of punishment, as affecting a moral agent. 87. The pursuits of agriculture, the profession of arms, the business of trade, and the labors of the mechanic, as affecting the taste and morals of a people. 88. Color, form, and size, as elements of physical beauty 89. Quickness of perception, retentiveness of memory, and pledding per severance, as contributing to mental advancement. 90. The six follies of science. The quadrature of the circle; the multipli cation of the cube; perpetual motica; the philosophar's stone magic; and judicial astrology. 91 Skepticism and credulity compared as obstacies to piollapiral im provement. 92. Potry and history considered as sources of amzseme. BUBJECTS FOR COLLOQUYS, OR COLLOQUIAL DISCUSSIONS 1. Attachment to party as a ground of action, for an upright politician. 2. On the defects and advantages of history, as affording a knowledge of the motives and actions of individuals, and of the character of hu man nature. 3. Dn the good and bad effects of emulation. 4. On the moral influence of the Christian Sabbath. 5. On the influence of fashion on the judgment of right and wrong. 6. On the influence of the multiplicity of books, on the interests of litera ture and science. 7. Deference to great names in philosophy, and to high rank in the social state. 8. The enthusiast and the matter of fact man. 9. On the advantages and disadvantages resulting to a scholar, from fre quent intercourse with mixed society. 10. On the effects of literary reviews, as at present conducted. 11. On the comparative prevalence and strength of the principles of loyal ty and independence in man. 12. On the character of ancient and modern patriotism. 13. Of establishing a University in the country or in a city. 14. Foreign travellers in the United States. 15. On the different views, which literary men take of the world at their first entrance upon it. 16. The difference of manners in Rome and in modern civilized states. 17. On active profession, as injuring or assisting the efforts of a literary man. 18. The comparative influence of governments and of individuals, in effect ing great public improvements. 19. The literary influence of a reading public. 20. The views taken of a nation, by itself and others. 21. The moral effects of public, and of domestic amusements. 22. The effects of controversy on partisans, and on the public. 23. The influence of the Roman Gladiatorial shows, and of the Greek games, on the character of the people. 24. The comparative effects of literature and of science, on the progress of civilization. 25. The effect which acquaintance with foreign languages has upon the originality of a nation's literature. 26. The comparative influence of individuals and learned societies in form ing the literary character of a nation. 27. The influence of the multiplication of books upon literature. 28. The study of nature, and of man, as affording a proper field for the poet. 29. The standard of taste. 30. The novels of Fielding, Richardson, and the author of Waverley. 31. The comparative importance of the expeditions to ascertain the North: West passage, and the source of the Niger. 32. Intellectual, moral, and physical education. 33. The prospects of Christianity in India. 34. The satires of Horace and Juvenal. 35. How far the right should be controlled by the expedient. 36. On the comparative value of contemporaneous and posthumous fame 37. On the evils of anarchy, and of an arbitrary government. 38. Diligent observation of facts and philosophical use of them. 39. On superstition and skepticism. |