but it seemed as if I had been placed completely out of the reach of all amusement. The windows of my bedroom looked out among tiled roofs and stacks of chimneys, while those of my sitting-room commanded a full view of the stable-yard. I know of nothing more calculated to make a man sick of this world than a stableyard on a rainy day. Bracebridge Hall.-WASHINGTON IRVING. SUPERSTITION. It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such an opinion as is unworthy of Him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. SURFEIT. Essay on Superstition.-LORD BACON. Surfeits destroy more than the sword. Women Pleased, Act I. Scene II.—JOHN FLETCHER. SUSPICION. Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight; certainly they are to be repressed, or at the least well guarded; for they cloud the mind, they lose friends, and they check with business, whereby business cannot go on currently and constantly they dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and melancholy: they are defects, not in the heart, but in the brain. Essay on Suspicion.-LORD BACON. SYMPATHY. Hail, sympathy! thy soft idea brings A thousand visions of a thousand things, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.-BYRON. ailoring. Never trust a tailor that does not sing at his work: his mind is on nothing but filching. TALENTS. The Knight of the Burning Castle, Act II. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. Three Precious Time, health, and parts, are three precious talents, generally bestowed upon men, but seldom improved for God. Resolutions, I.-BISHOP BEVERIDGE. TALKATIVENESS. As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing. Maxims, CCCCXIV.-ROCHEFOUCAULT. TALKING. Let your words be few and digested; it is a shame for the tongue to cry the heart mercy, much more to cast itself upon the uncertain pardon of others' ears. Sermon by BISHOP HALL. TASTE. Advantages of a Cultivated The cultivation of taste is recommended by the happy effects which it naturally tends to produce on human life. The most busy man in the most active sphere cannot be always occupied by business. Men of serious professions cannot always be on the stretch of serious thought. Neither can the most gay and flourishing situations of fortune afford any power of filling all his hours with pleasure. Life must always languish in the hands of the idle. It will frequently languish even in the hands of the busy, if they have not some employment subsidiary to that which forms their main pursuit. man the Lecture on the Cultivation of Taste. TASTE and GENIUS. Difference between Taste consists in the the power of executing. degree of taste in poetry, arts, who has little or hardly any genius for composition or execution in any of these arts; but genius cannot be found without including taste also. Genius, therefore, deserves to be considered as a higher power of the mind than taste. Genius always imports something inventive or creative, which does not rest in mere sensibility to beauty where it is perceived, but which can, moreover, produce new beauties, and exhibit them in such a manner as strongly to impress the minds of power of judging; genius in One may have a considerable eloquence, or any of the fine others. Refined taste forms a good critic; but genius is further necessary to form the poet or the orator. Lecture on the Cultivation of Taste. TAXES and TAXATION. Friends," says he, "the taxes are indeed very heavy; and, if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us; ‘God helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says." The Way to Wealth.-DR. FRANKLIN. There arose even with the sun a veil of dark clouds before his face, which shortly, like ink poured into water, had blacked over all the face of heaven, preparing, as it were, a mournful stage for a tragedy to be played on. For, forthwith the winds began to speak louder, and, as in a tumultuous kingdom, to think themselves fittest instruments of commandment; and blowing whole storms of hail and rain upon them, they were sooner in danger than they could almost bethink themselves of change. For then the traitorous sea began to Χ swell in pride against the afflicted navy, under which, while the heaven favoured them, it had lain so calmly ; making mountains of itself, over which the tossed and tottering ship should climb, to be straight carried down again to a pit of hellish darkness, with such cruel blows against the sides of the ship, that, which way soever it went, was still in his malice, that there was left neither power to stay nor way to escape. And shortly had it so dissevered the loving company, which the day before had tarried together, that most of them never met again, but were swallowed up in his never-satisfied mouth. The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. TEMPLE of NATURE. The It is not only in the sacred fane ; That homage should be paid to the Most High; TEMPTATION. 'Tis fair as frail mortality, In the first dawn and bloom of young creation, |