And ofttimes, on vagaries idly bent,

For unkempt hair, or task unconned, are sorely shent. The Schoolmistress.—WILLIAM SHENSTONE.

SCHOOLMASTER. Advantages of having a Good One of the greatest benefits that ever God gave me, is, that he sent me so sharp and severe parents, and so gentle a schoolmaster. For when I am in presence either of father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand, or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing, or doing anything else, I must do it, as it were, in such weight, measure, and number, even so perfectly as God made the world, or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea, presently, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways, which I will not name for the honour I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell, till time come that I must go to Mr. Elmer; who teacheth me so gently, so pleasantly, with such fair allurements to learning, that I think all the time nothing, whiles I am with him.

The Schoolmaster.-ROGER ASCHAM.

SCHOOL-TRAINING. A grievous fault in

I have long thought that the method of schoolmasters in the instruction of their children is altogether the reverse of what it ought to be. They generally lay hold on the human constitution as a pilot lays hold of the rudder of a ship, by the tail, by the single motive

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of fear alone. Now as fear has no concern with anything but itself, it is the most confined, most malignant, and the basest, though the strongest of all passions.

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The Fool of Quality, Chap. VI.-H. BROOKE.

SCRIPTURE. Rendering of

Grant that I may never rack a scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it.

Scripture Observations, I. -THOMAS FULLER.

How fruitful are the seeming barren places of scripture bad ploughmen, which make balks of such ground. Wheresoever the surface of God's Word doth not laugh and sing with corn, there the heart thereof within is merry, with mines affording, where not plain matter, hidden mysteries. Scripture Observations, XVI. THOMAS FULLER.

SEAMANSHIP.

The pious pilot, whom the gods provide,

Through the rough seas the shattered bark to guide,

Trusts not alone his knowledge of the deep,
Its rocks that threaten, and its sands that sleep,
But whilst with nicest skill he steers his way
The guardian Tritons hear their favourite pray.

The Candidate.-G. CRABBE.

SECRET. A

'Tis in my memory lock'd,

And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

SECRETS.

Hamlet, Act I. Scene III.-SHAKSPERE.

Concerning Keeping

How can we expect that another should keep our secret, when it is more than we can do ourselves.

Maxims, CCCLXXXIX.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

SECTS. Origin and Growth of

Suppose ten men, of pretended purity, but real pride and peevishness, make a wilful separation from the Church of England, possibly they may continue some competent time in tolerable unity together. Afterwards, upon a new discovery of a higher and holier way of divine service, these ten will split asunder into five and five, and the purer moiety divide from the other as more drossy and feculent. Then the five in process of time, upon the like occasion of clearer illumination, will cleave themselves into three and two, some short time after the three will crumble into two and one, and the two part into one and one, till they come into the condition of the Ammonites, so scattered that not two of them

shall be left together.

I am sad, that I

may add with

too much truth that one man will at last be divided in himself, distracted often in his judgment betwixt many

opinions.

SELF.

Mixt Contemplations on these Times.

Knowledge of

THOMAS FULLER.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

poor

Zanoni, Book III. Chapter XVIII.-E. B. LYTTON.

The latest Gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it. "Know thyself;" long enough has that "self" of thine tormented thee; thou wilt never get to "know" it, I believe! Think it not thy business, this of knowing thyself; thou art an unknowable individual: know what thou canst work at and work at it like a Hercules! That will be thy better plan.

SELF-LOVE.

Past and Present.-THOMAS CARLYLE.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

SELF-MISTRUST

Wilhelm Meister.--GOETHE.

Happy occasions oft by self-mistrust
Are forfeited; but infamy doth kill.

On the final Submission of the Tyrolese.
W. WORDSWORTH.

SENSE. Value of Common

Whoever has studied the lives of persons in whom the imagination is stronger than the will, who suspect their own knowledge of actual life, and are aware of their facility to impressions,—will have observed the influence which a homely, vigorous, worldly understanding obtains over such natures.

Zanoni, Book II. Chap. VIII.-E. B. LYTTON.

SERMONS. Proper composition of

Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application, which a discreet man may do well; but 'tis his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric: rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root. Table Talk.-John Selden.

SERVANT. Character of a good

I can keep honest counsel, ride, run, mar a curious tale in telling it, and deliver a plain message bluntly; that which ordinary men are fit for I am qualified in : and the best of me is diligence.

SERVANT.

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

Account of a Russian male

He will plough to-day, weave to-morrow, help to build a house the third day, and the fourth, if his