3290. GOD his Justice and his Omnipotence. 3. GOD's Justice will disclose a wicked Purpose. 3291. APPEARANCES-deceitful. 4. Trust not Appearances and outward Shews: In Cases of Defence 'tis best to weigh 3293. INVASION, 'Tis ever best to think the Invader strong: And therefore look we strongly arm to meet him. 3294. COURAGE-COWARDICE. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for coward Dogs 3295. SELF-LOVE-SELF-NEGLECT. Self-love is not so vile a sin As Self-neglecting t. • What justness, beauty, and dignity in a base Comparison. It is recorded of the Expeller of the Tarquins, that he pre sented emblematically, at Delphos, a solid rod of Gold enclosed in a rough wooden Staff. This would be true if Self-love did not lead into Selfneglect.-False Estimation, as Vanity, or over Estimation, as Pride, lead to Neglect of the Virtues and most valuable Attainments which is Self in the highest Sense. Self-respect, L'Amour de soi, is admirably distinguisht by ROUSSEAU from L'Amour propre, the injurious and narrow Love of Self 3296. GLORY-adventitious. We must divest ourselves, and lay apart All borrow'd Glories. 3297. CLAIMS-obsolete. Too oft the ambitious and rapacious make, Many most aukward and sinister Claims Pickt from the worm-holes of long-vanisht Days, And from the Dust of old Oblivion rak't. 3298. DELIBERATION. A Night is but small breath and little pause To answer matters of high Consequence. 3299. MEMORIALS of WORTH-traditionary. § Mock not at antient traditionary Customs, began on an honorable Respect, and continued as a memorable Trophy of predeceas'd Valour. 3300. BOASTING. 24. Allow not yourself in Words what you dare not, or ought not, to avouch in Deeds. 3301, WAR-the Desolation produced by it. 35. In War, the Vine, the chearer of the Heart, Unpruned, dies:-the Hedges, even-pleacht, Like Prisoners wildly overgrown with hair, Put forth disorder'd Twigs; on fallow leas The Darnel, Hemlock, and rank Fumatory, Doth wildly root; while that the coulter rusts, Which should deracinate such savagry. The even Mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled Cowslip, Burnet, and green Clover, Wanting the Scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful Docks, rough Thistles, Kecksies, Burs, 4 yds *Uncus aratri Horridus incultis putrescit vomer in arvis. J Losing both beauty and utility; * .2008 And as the Vineyards, Fallows, Meads, & Hedges, 3302. PEACE. Peace is the Nurse of Arts, Plenty, and joyful 3303,29 [Births. baA In Peace, there's nothing so becomes a Man. A As modest stillness and humility. 3304 BLUSTER. A killing Tongue and a quiet Sword. 3305. LICENTIOUSNESS. What rein can hold licentious Wickedness, When down the hill rushing in fierce career. 3306. WORLD KNOWLEDGE of the. : la 47. Learn to know the Slanders of the Age, false Pretenders, or you may be marvellously mistaken. 3307. CONQUEST-Means contrasted. When Lenity and Cruelty play for a Kingdom, the gentlest Gamester is the soonest Winner: and at least the only honorable*. t *Henry V. did not act, however, on this excellent Maxim. Bee SOUTHEY's JOAN of N of ARC, and the Notes to that noble Poem, 3308. WAR-CONDUCT superior to FORCE. Advantage is a better Leader in War than Rash 3309. MALICE. + Ill' Will never said Well. 3310. FLATTERY-unintentional. [ness. In Friendship and Love there is unintentional 3311, JUSTICE. Give the Devil his Due, [Flattery, 3312. FOLLY careless of the Mischief it does. A Fool's Bolt is soon shot. 3313. IMITATION-Dramatic ; it's Use. Observe true things by what their Mockeries be, 3314. "Tis good for Men to love their present Pain Upon Example:-thus the Spirit is eas'd; And when the Mind is quicken'd, out of doubt, The Organs, though defunct and dead before, Break off their drowsy Grave and newly move With casted slough and fresh legerity. 3315. WAR should be something more than unbridled LICENTIOUSNESS. A true General will observe the Ceremonies of War: the Cares and the Forms and the Sobriety and the Modesty of it. 3316. ENEMY-not to be imitated in FAULTS: If one party be an Ass and a Fool and a prating Coxcomb, is it fit that the other therefore should be an Ass and a Fool and a prating Coxcomb? * Ως εν σοφον βέλευμα ας πολλων χέρας Νικα. This EUR. Translation of VIRGIL's "Positis novus exuviis nitidusque juventą” I think has not yet been equalled,* 3317. WORTH-not FASHION, 5. Never be Sense, Care, Valour, undervalued, Though they appear a little out of Fashion, 3318. LIFE-it's Uncertainty. 68. How many see the Beginning of a Day who never see the End of it! 3319. KINGS. 75. The King is but a Man: the Violet smells to him as to another; the Element shews to him as to another; all his Senses have but human Conditions; his Ceremonies laid by he appears but a Man; and though his Affections are higher mounted than our's, yet when they stoop they stoop with the same wing*. 3320.. When the Course of War is not just, the King or Governor that makes it has a heavy reckoning to make. 3321, GOD-his OMNIPOTENCE. § However Wickedness outstrips Men, it has no Wings to fly from God. 3322. WAR-his Instrument of Correction. War is an Instrument of Vengeance in the hand of Heaven against Human Wickedness, of which it is the effect and the punishment, 3323. SAFETY and DANGER. Many, where they fear Death, have borne Life away; and have perisht where they lookt for Safety t. • Sinite homo sit: neque enim Ratio neque Imperium tollit Affectus.. † Matth. x. 39. xvi. 25. |