Haliburton. Are swallow-wing'd, but what's good Names alone mock destruction; they surMassinger. walks on crutches. THE NEWS MAN. vive The doom of all creation. H. Trevanion. He comes, the herald of a noisy world, NIGGARDLINESS AND WASTEFULWith spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering at his back. Cowper. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some. Ibid. NEWSPAPERS. A BEACON LIGHT. The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. Bishop Horne. DEFINITION of. An abstract and brief chronicle of the times. EDITORS OF. NESS. He that spareth in everything is an inexcusable niggard. He that spareth in nothing is an inexcusable madman. The mean is to spare in what is least necessary, and to lay out more liberally in what is most required in our several circumstances. Lord Halifax. NIGHT. Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. Night whose sable hand ANXIOUS. By this the drooping daylight 'gan to fade, Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to And yield his room to sad succeeding night, Who with her sable mantle 'gan to shade The face of earth and ways of living wight, And high her burning torch set up in heaven. Spenser. Now sunk the sun; the closing hour of day Came onward, mantled o'er with sober gray; Nature in silence bid the world repose. Parnell. Oh, night! most beautiful, most rare! For this I love thy hallow'd reign! For more than this thrice blest thou art! Thou gain'st the unbeliever's brain By entering at his heart! BENEFITS OF. The busy craftsmen and o'er-labour'd hind, T. Buchanan Reed. Care only wakes, and moping pensiveness; Night's silent reign had robb'd the world And watch the wasting of the midnight ta per. GENTLENESS OF. Rowe. A shade immense. Sunk in the quenching nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the gloom, Magnificent and vast, are heaven and earth. Thomson. The night was dark and still: a heavier gloom Ne'er cover'd earth. In low'ring clouds the stars Were muffled deep, and not one ray below. Ibid. exalting separation from the turmoils of life, that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing there remains but souls? Is it therefore that the letters in which the loved name stands written in our spirit appears like phosphorous writing by night, in fire, while by day, in their cloudy traces, Richter. they but smoke? LANGUAGE OF. In her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn the language of another world. Byron, MANTLE OF. MYSTERIOUS. O mysterious night! Spenser. A CLOG. NOBILITY. Nobility of birth does not always ensure a corresponding nobility of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog, rather than a spur. Colton. GENEROSITY OF. If a man be endued with a generous Thou art not silent: many tongues hast mind, this is the best kind of nobility. SILENCE Of. REAL. Rowe. Plato. Than not be noble. Tennyson. We must have kings, we must have nobles; nature is always providing such in Now came still evening on, and twilight every society; only let us have the real in ear, Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Shelley. How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night? And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depth of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,-the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass Longfellow. of Time. SORROWFUL. TREACHEROUS. O, treach'rous night! NONSENSE. APPRECIATION OF. Hill. NIGHTINGALE. Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly. Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail. Lloyd. SPARING USE OF. To write or talk concerning any subject, without having previously taken the pains to understand it, is a breach of the duty which we owe to ourselves, though it may be no offence against the laws of the land. The privilege of talking and even publishing nonsense is necessary in a free State; but the more sparingly we make use of it the better. Coleridge. NOTHING. Nothing! thou elder brother ev'n to shade! Thou hadst a being ere the world was made, And, well-fix'd, art alone of ending not Rochester. afraid. ETERNITY OF. 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; Now! it is gone.-Our brief hours travel But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. post, Each with its thought or deed, its why or how; A RASH. Shakespeare. Rash oaths, whether kept or broken, freJohnson. But know, each parting hour gives up a quently produce guilt. ghost To dwell within thee-an eternal now! UTILITY OF. Oaths were not purposed more than law AIM OF. OBEDIENCE. Butler. Heaven doth divide Obedience. To GOD. Shakespeare. We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. HAPPINESS of. Jeremiah xlii, 6. It is foolish to strive with what we cannot I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience. OBLIGATION. La Rochefoucauld. Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful. Hobbes. OBLIVION. Cowper. In the swallowing gulf Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion. Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear, OBSERVATION. Oaths are of dreadful weight! and, if they ACUTENESS OF. are fa.se, Draw down damnation. Sir Thomas Overbury. He alone is an acute observer who can observe minutely without being observed. Lavater |