CHARITY and LOVE.

Charity itself fulfils the law;

And who can sever love from charity?

Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV. Scene III.-SHAKSPERE.

CHEERFULNESS.

Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue,
Her bow across her shoulder flung,
Her buskins gemmed with morning dew.

CHILD. A

The Passions.-WM, COLLINS.

Art thou a thing of mortal birth,
Whose happy home is on our earth?
Does human blood with life imbue
Those wandering veins of heavenly blue
That stray along thy forehead fair,
Lost 'mid a gleam of golden hair?
Oh! can that light and airy breath
Steal from a being doomed to death;
Those features to the grave be sent
In sleep thus mutely eloquent?

Or art thou, what thy form would seem,
The phantom of a blessed dream?

A Sleeping Child.-JOHN WILSON.

CHILD, Epitome of the Father. A

Although the print be little, the whole matter
And copy of the father: eye, nose, lip,

The trick of his frown, his forehead; nay, the valley,
The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek; his smiles;
The very mould and frame of hand, nail, finger.

A Winter's Tale, Act II. Scene III.—SHAKSPERE.

CHILDHOOD.

Beloved age

of innocence and smiles,

When each wing'd hour some new delight beguiles, When the gay heart, to life's sweet day-spring true, Still finds some insect pleasure to pursue.

Childhood.-H. K. WHITE.

CHILDHOOD. Innocence of

What brighter throne can brightness find
To reign on than an infant's mind,
Ere sin destroy or error dim
The glory of the seraphim?

Oh! vision fair! that I could be
Again as young, as pure as thee!

CHILDHOOD.

A Sleeping Child.-JOHN WILSON.

Purity of

A child is man in a small letter, yet the best copy of Adam, before he tasted of Eve or the apple; and he is happy whose small practice in the world can only write his character. His soul is yet a white paper unscribbled with observations of the world, wherewith, at length, it becomes a blurred note book. He is purely

The

He is

happy, because he knows no evil, nor hath made means by sin to be acquainted with misery. He arrives not at the mischief of being wise, nor endures evils to come, by foreseeing them. He kisses and loves all, and, when the smart of the rod is past, smiles on his beater. older he grows, he is a stair lower from God. the Christian's example, and the old man's relapse; the one imitates his pureness, and the other falls into his simplicity. Could he put off his body with his little coat, he had got eternity without a burden, and exchanged but one heaven for another.

Microcosmography, 1642.-BISHOP EARLE.

CHILDREN.

'Tis a happy thing

To be the father unto many sons.

King Henry VI. Part III. Act III. Scene II.-SHAKSPERE.

CHILDREN.

Joy and Sorrow of

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.

Essay on Parents and Children.-LORD BACON.

CHILDREN. Rules for the Education of

Bring thy children up in learning and obedience, yet without outward austerity. Praise them openly, reprehend them secretly. Give them good countenance and convenient maintenance according to thy ability, other

wise thy life will seem their bondage, and what portion thou shalt leave them at thy death, they will thank death for it, and not thee. And I am persuaded that the foolish cockering of some parents, and the over-stern carriage of others, causeth more men and women to take ill courses than their own vicious inclinations. Marry thy daughters in time, lest they marry themselves. And suffer not thy sons to pass the Alps; for they shall learn nothing there but pride, blasphemy, and atheism.

Precepts or directions for the well ordering and carriage of a man's life.-LORD BURLEIGH.

CHILDREN. Training of

Above all things endeavour to breed them up in the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they were homely than finely bred as to outward behaviour; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity, and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety.

Letter to his Wife and Children.-WILLIAM PENN.

I don't like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of a judicious mother, more than all the rods, dark rooms, and scolding school-mistresses, in the Letter to his Aunt, by H. K. WHITE.

universe.

CHILDREN in Olden Time. Treatment of
History can tell of early ages dim,

When man's chief glory was in strength of limb;
Then the best patriot gave the hardest knocks,
The height of virtue was to fell an ox;

Ill fared the babe of questionable mould,
Whom its stern father happened to behold;
In vain the mother with her ample vest
Hid the poor nursling on her throbbing breast;
No tears could save him from the kitten's fate,
To live an insult to the warlike state.

Astræa.-O. W. HOLMES.

CHURCHYARD. A New

I give five hundred pounds to buy a churchyard,
A spacious churchyard, to lie thieves and knaves in:
Rich men and honest men take all the room up.
The Spanish Curate, Act IV. Scene v.
JOHN FLETCHER.

Civility is a desire to receive civility, and to be accounted well-bred.

Maxims, XLIX.—ROCHEFOUCAULT.

CLERGYMAN. Characteristics of a Good

Love and meekness, lord,

Become a churchman better than ambition;

Win straying souls with modesty again,

Cast none away.

King Henry VIII. Act v. Scene II.—SHAKSPERE,