SOUL. How to preserve Health of Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in his prayer when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live, without God's forgiving it its trespasses. Cause and Cure of a Wounded Conscience, Dialogue vi. The soul being the nobler and more sublime part, our chief care should be laid out in pleasing it, as a wise subject should take more care in pleasing the king than his ministers, and the master than his servants. The true and allowable luxury of the soul consists in contemplation and thinking, or else in the practice of virtue, whereby we may employ our time in being useful to others albeit, when our senses and other inferior faculties have served the soul in these great enjoyments, they ought to be gratified as good servants, but not so as to make them wild masters, as luxury does, when it rather oppresses than refreshes them. The Moral History of Frugality. SOUL. Immortality of the The sun is but a spark of fire, U The soul, immortal as its sire, Shall never die. The Grave.-JAMES MONTGOMERY. SOUL. Immortality of the The stars shall fade away, the sun himself The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds. SOUL. SOUL. Endurance of a Virtuous Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber never gives ; But though the whole world turn to a coal, Then chiefly lives. The Power of the Virtue.-GEORGE HERBERT. Rides on the volley'd lightning through the heavens, And, yoked with whirlwinds and the northern blast, Sweeps the long tract of day. Pleasures of Imagination.—MARK AKENSIDE. SOUL compared to a Clock. The My soul's a clock, whose wheels (for want of use And winding up, being subject to the abuse Of eating rust) want vigour to fulfil Her twelve hours' task, and shew her Maker's skill, But idly sleeps unmoved, and standeth vainly still. Great God, it is thy work, and therefore good, Emblems, Book IV. 8.-FRANCIS QUARLES. SOULS. Some men have a Sunday soul, which they screw on in due time, and take off again every Monday morning. Conversational Remarks of Rev. ROBERT HALL. SPEAKING. Correct Once more; speak clearly, if you speak at all; Carve every word before let it fall; you Don't, like a lecturer or dramatic star, Do put your accents in the proper spot; Don't, let me beg you,-don't say "How?" for "What?" And, when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. Urania.-O. W. HOLMES. SPEAKING. Circumlocution in You must not talk to him, As you do to an ordinary man, Honest plain sense, but you must wind about him. For example,—if he should ask you what o'clock it is, You must not say, "If it please your grace, 'tis nine;" But thus, "Thrice three o'clock, so please my sovereign;" Or thus, "Look how many Muses there doth dwell Upon the sweet banks of the learned well, And just so many strokes the clock hath struck;" And so forth. SPEECH. The Woman-Hater, Act II. Scene 1. Discretion of Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. Essay on Discourse.-LORD BACON. SPEECHIFYING. True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more. Maxims, cx.-ROCHEFOUCAULT. SPIRIT. Description of a I see a dusk and awful figure rise, Like an infernal god, from out the earth; His face wrapt in a mantle, and his form Robed as with angry clouds; he stands between Manfred, Act III. Scene IV.-BYRON. SPIRITS. An accomplishment of A spirit is such a little thing, that I have heard a man, who was a great scholar, say, that he'll dance a Lancashire hornpipe upon the point of a needle. The Drummer, Act. I. Scene I.-ADDISON. SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS. God generally gives spiritual blessings and deliverances as he does temporal; that is, by the mediation of an active and vigorous industry. The fruits of the earth are the gift of God, and we pray for them as such; but yet we plant, and we sow, and we plough, for all that; and the hands which are sometimes lift up in prayer must at other times be put to the plough, or the husbandman must expect no crop. Everything must be effected in the way proper to its nature, with the concurrent influence of the divine grace, not to supersede the means, but to prosper and make them effectual. SPRING. Sermon by DR. SOUTH. I come, I come! ye have called me long, |