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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.
Shakespeare.

Night whose sable hand
Hangs on the purple skirts of flying day.
Dyer.

ANXIOUS.

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By this the drooping daylight 'gan to fade,

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to And yield his room to sad succeeding night,

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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.

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Oh, night! most beautiful, most rare!
Thou giv'st the heavens their holiest hue!
And through the azure fields of air,
Bringest down the golden dew!
For thou, with breathless lips apart,
Didst stand in that dim age afar,
And hold upon thy trembling heart
Messiah's herald-star!

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.

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The busy craftsmen and o'er-labour'd hind,
Forget the travail of the day in sleep;

T. Buchanan Reed. Care only wakes, and moping pensiveness;
With meagre, discontented looks, they sit,

Night's silent reign had robb'd the world And watch the wasting of the midnight ta

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per. GENTLENESS OF.

Rowe.

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A shade immense. Sunk in the quenching nightly pressure of helplessness? or is it the gloom,

Magnificent and vast, are heaven and earth.
Order confounded lies; all beauty void;
Distinction lost; and gay variety
One universal blot: such the power
Of light, to kindle and create the whole.

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.
Under thy mantle black there hidden lie,
Light-shaming theft, and traitorous intent,
Abhorred bloodshed, and vile felony,
Shameful deceit, and danger imminent,
Foul horror and eke hellish dreriment.

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.

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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

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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.
How like a widow in her weeds, the night,
Amid her glimmering tapers, silent sits!
How sorrowful, how desolate, she weeps
Perpetual dews, and saddens nature's scene.
Young.

TREACHEROUS.

O, treach'rous night!
Thou lend'st thy ready veil to ev'ry treason,
And teeming mischiefs thrive beneath thy
shade.

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NONSENSE.

APPRECIATION OF.

Hill.

NIGHTINGALE.

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Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly.
Milton.
Most musical, most melancholy.

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.

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ETERNITY OF.

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'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!

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UTILITY OF.

Oaths were not purposed more than law
To keep the good and just in awe,
But to confine the bad and sinful,
Like moral cattle in a pinfold.

AIM OF.

OBEDIENCE.

Butler.

Heaven doth divide
The state of man in divers functions,
Setting endeavour in continual motion;
To which is fix'd, as an aim or butt,

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
avoid; we are born subjects, and to obey
God is perfect liberty; he that does this,
shall be free, safe, and quiet; all his actions
Seneca.
shall succeed to his wishes.
LEARNING of.

I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience.
Shakespeare.
MOTIVES TO.
Wicked men obey for fear, but the good
for love.
Aristotle.
FROM THE POWERLESS.
Let them obey that know not how to rule.
Shakespeare.

OBLIGATION.
DISCHARGE OF AN.
An extraordinary haste to discharge an
obligation is a sort of ingratitude.
THRALDOM OF AN.

La Rochefoucauld.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful. Hobbes.

OBLIVION.

Cowper.

In the swallowing gulf

Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion.
Shakespeare.

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

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