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That never fails.

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It is as usual to see a young serving man an old beggar, as to see a light horse first from the great saddle of a nobleman, to come to the hackney coach, and at last die in drawing a carre But the good master is not like the cruell hunter in the fable, who beat his old dogge, because his toothlesse mouth let go the game: he rather imitates the noble nature of our Prince Henry, who took order for the keeping of an old English mastiffe, which had made a lion run away.-Fuller. MDCVI.

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate : Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest :
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Shakspeare-to Mr. W. H.

MDCVII.

As nothing is more natural than for every one to desire to be happy, it is not to be wondered at that the wisest men in all ages have spent so much time to discover what happiness is, and wherein it chiefly consists. An eminent writer, named Varro, reckons up no less than two hundred and eighty-eight different opinions upon this subject; and another, called Lucian, after having given us a long catalogue of the notions of several philosophers, endeavours to

show the absurdity of all of them, without establishing any thing of his own.-Budgell.

MDCVIII.

An alderman is a peer of the city, and a member of their upper house; who, as soon as he arrives at so many thousand pounds, is bound by the charter to serve the public with so much understanding, what shift soever he make to raise it, and wear a chain about his neck like a rein-deer, or in default to commute, and make satisfaction in ready money, the best reason of the place; for which he has the name only, like a titular prince, and is an alderman-extraordinary. But if his wife can prevail with him to stand, he becomes one of the city supporters; and like the unicorn in the king's arms, wears a chain about his neck very right-worshipfully.

When he

sits as a judge in his court, he is absolute, and uses arbitrary power; for he is not bound to understand what he does, nor render an account why he gives judgment on one side rather than another; but his will is sufficient to stand for his reason, to all intents and purposes. He does no public business without eating and drinking; and when he comes to be lord-mayor he does not keep a great house, but a very great house-warming for a whole year; for though he invites all the companies in the city, he does not treat them, but they club to entertain him, and pay the reckoning beforehand. His fur gown makes him look a great deal bigger than he is, like the feathers of an owl; and when he pulls it off, he looks as if he were fallen away, or like a rabbit, had his skin pulled off.-Butler.

MDCIX.

He that first started the doctrine, that bravery was the best defence against a knave, was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves. But for such as presume upon our modesty, to keep them off with their own weapons, and not gratify their unreason

able impudence with an easy compliance, it is but just and good, and the duty of every honest man. Neither

is it a hard matter to put off some mean and ordinary people, who will be apt to prove troublesome to you in that nature. Some shift them off with a jest or smart repartee as Theocritus being asked in the bagnio to lend his napkins, by two persons, whereof one was a stranger to him, and t'other a notorious felon; he made answer: You, sir, I know not well enough, and you I know too well.-Plutarch.

MDCX.

The prince that pardons

The first affront offer'd to majesty,
Invites a second, rendering that power,
Subjects should tremble at, contemptible.
Ingratitude is a monster,

To be strangled in the birth, not to be cherished.

MDCXI.

Massinger.

Security diminishes the passions; the mind, when left to itself, immediately languishes; and, in order to preserve its ardour, must be every moment supported by a new flow of passion. For the same reason despair, though contrary to security, has a like influence.-Hume.

MDCXII.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other. --Johnson.

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Axioms, 896.

Babblers, 461, 756, 845
Bailiff, 813

Bar, the, 873

Bashfulness, 586, 1547

Actors, 476, 616, 839, 1020, 1338, Beauty, 99, 161, 302, 529, 631,

1551

Advice, 774, 1011, 1137
Affectation, 195, 261, 779, 846,
866, 1368

Affection, 602, 1166, 1334, 1337
Affliction, 1074

Age, 117, 196, 919, 1157, 1184
Agreeableness, 605, 1164, 1194,

1481
Alderman, 1608

Allegories, 120

Almanacs, 435

Almsgiving, 994

828, 1038

644, 932, 1219, 1282, 1406,
Benefits, 520, 584, 601, 729, 808,
1407, 1476
819, 841, 978, 1036, 1069, 1084,
1401
Benevolence, 365, 391, 543,
1253

Birth, 372, 377, 501, 1452
Bombastry, 670

Books, 68, 179, 431, 466, 500,
521, 558, 615, 847, 863, 953
973, 993, 1077, 1086, 1231
1245, 1252, 1258, 1306

Ambition, 293, 356, 552, 663, Brains, 328, 1296, 1513

Amusements, 1133

Ancestry, 887, 1452, 1495

1305, 1410, 1448

Brevity, 343

Building, 929

Auger, 1105, 1192, 1237,

1277,

Business, 294, 706, 1186

Busy men, 1298

Anticipation, 872

Butts, 1041

Applause, 1046

Cameleon, 769

Argument, 1483, 1523

Arrogance, 748, 1495

Art, 71, 1106

Atheists, 555, 746, 1564
Avarice, 86, 626, 845,
1284, 1563
Authority, 1581

Candour, 603, 1430

Cant, 324, 681

Capacity, 1516

Cards, 341, 549

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1278, Care, origin of, 1123
Carving, 344

Authors, 77, 193, 320, 413, 510,
766, 850, 1303, 1520, 1554

Caution, 607, 1113
Censure, 386, 735, 883
Ceremony, 245, 1055

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Characteristics, 913

Charity, 514

Chastity, 162, 1129

Cheerfulness, 167, 313, 358
Childhood, 1232

Children, management of, 409
Christmas, 709
Circumlocution, 1075
Civilization, 1281
City butts, 952

politician, 942
Climate, 243

Comedy and Tragedy, 402
Commerce, 1023, 1186
Common Sense, 1561
Company, 310, 383, 397, 621,
651, 793, 894, 938, 1215, 1273
Complaisance, 137, 898
Compliments, 576, 1443
Composition, 1537

Conceit, 133, 491, 718, 1263
Confidence, 55, 357, 1024
Conscience, 114, 404, 902, 1329,
1338, 1358

Constancy, 454, 541, 1430,
Content, 43, 104, 583, 742, 773,
893, 1304, 1418
Contrarieties, 1047, 1487
Controversy, 217, 224, 282, 546,
715, 1206, 1242, 1528

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