Fire from his eyes, clouds from his nostrils flow,
He bears his rider headlong on the foe.

HOUSES.

The War Horse.-JOHN DRYDEN.

How large houses do they build in London on little ground! Revenging themselves on the narrowness of their room with store of stories. Excellent arithmetic! from the root of one floor to multiply so many chambers. And though painful climbing up, pleasant staying there, the higher the healthfuller, with clear light and sweeter air.

Occasional Meditations, II.-THOMAS FULLER.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene

The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear :
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,

And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard
THOMAS GRAY.

HUMILITY. Worth of

O! I would walk

A weary journey, to the farthest verge

Of the big world, to kiss that good man's hand,
Who, in the blaze of wisdom, and of art,
Preserves a lowly mind; and to his God
Feeling the sense of his own littleness,
Is as a child in meek simplicity.

What is the pomp of learning? the parade

Of letters and of tongues? even as the mists
Of the grey morn before the rising sun,
That pass away and perish.-Earthly things
Are but the transient pageants of an hour;
And earthly pride is like the passing flower,
That springs to fall, and blossoms but to die.
Lowliness of Mind.-H. K. WHITE.

HUMILITY the Mark of Dignity.

True dignity abides with him alone
Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,
Can still suspect, and still revere himself,
In lowliness of heart.

The Yew-tree Seat.-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

HUMILITY known of God.

Th' Almighty, from his throne, on earth surveys
Nought greater than an honest humble heart;
An humble heart, his residence! pronounced
His second seat; and rival to the skies.

Night Thoughts, VIII. Line 475.-EDWARD YOUNG.

HUMILITY with regard to others.

Where words are weak, and foes encountering strong,
Where mightier do assault than do defend,
The feebler part puts up enforced wrong,

And silent sees that speech could not amend. Yet, higher powers must think, though they repine, When sun is set, the little stars will shine.

Scorn not the Least.-ROBERT SOUTHWELL.

HUMILITY Commended but not Practised by all.

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servant, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity.

Table Talk.-JOHN SELDEN.

HUMOURS. Influence of

The humours of the body have a regular stated course which insensibly influences the will: they circulate, and successively exercise a secret power over us. In short, they have a considerable share in all our actions, though we perceive it not.

HYPOCRISY.

Maxims, CCXXVIII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

An thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thou❜lt catch cold shortly.

King Lear, Act I. Scene IV.-Shakspere.

HYPOCRISY. Weakness of

I have known hypocrisy, treachery, pride, malice, and lust, assume the opposite semblance of saintship, fidelity, lowliness, benevolence, and chastity. But it is painful to keep the bow of nature long bent; its elasticity will struggle to have it restored; and a skilful discerner, at the time of such delusion, will often detect the difference between a real character and the acting of a part. For when nature dictates, the whole man

speaks all is uniform and consenting in voice, mien, motion, the turn of each feature, and the cast of the eyes. But when art is the spokesman, and that nature is not altogether suppressed, the turn of the eye may contradict the tongue, and the muscles of the face may counteract each other in their several workings.

The Fool of Quality, Chapter IX.-H. BROOKE.

An hypocrite is the worst kind of player, by so much that he acts the better part; which hath always two faces, ofttimes two hearts; that can compose his forehead to sadness and gravity, while he bids his heart be wanton and careless within, and, in the mean time, laughs within himself to think how smoothly he hath cozened the beholder. In whose silent face are written the characters of religion, which his tongue and gestures pronounce, but his hands recant. That hath a clean face and garment, with a foul soul; whose mouth belies his heart, and his fingers bely his mouth.

Characters.-BISHOP HALL.

Edleness.

Idleness is the badge of gentry, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the step-mother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion upon which the Devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy,

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but of many other diseases: for the mind is naturally active; and if it be not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief, or sinks into melancholy. Anatomy of Melancholy.-BURTON.

A soul immortal, spending all her fires,
Wasting her strength in strenuous idleness,
Thrown into tumult, raptured or alarm'd
At aught this scene can threaten or indulge,
Resembles ocean into tempest wrought,

To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

Night Thoughts I. Line 149.-EDWARD YOUNG.

IDLENESS. The growth of

I was brought to my idleness by degrees; first I could not work, and it went against my stomach to work ever after. I was seized with a jail fever at the time of the assizes being in the county where I lived ; for I was always curious to get acquainted with the felons, because they are commonly fellows of much mirth and little thought, qualities I had ever an esteem for. In the height of this fever, the house where I lay took fire, and burnt to the ground; I was carried out in that condition, and lay all the rest of my illness in a barn. I got the better of my disease, however, but I was so weak that I spit blood whenever I attempted to work. I had no relation living that I knew of, and I never kept a friend above a week when I was able to