those honours which we have always given to them from whom you derive your nobility.-JUVENAL.

Prejudice.

REJUDICE is an equivocal term, and may as well mean right opinions taken upon truft, and deeply rooted in the mind, as falfe and abfurd opinions fo derived and grown into it. The former of these will do no hurt; on the contrary, perhaps, the very beft part of education is employed in the culture of them.BISHOP HURD.

Prerogative.

HEY are the beft laws, by which the King hath the jufteft prerogative and the People the beft liberty.-LORD BACON.

2. PREROGATIVE in the hands of a Prince is a fceptre of gold; but in the hands of the people a rod of iron. THOMAS HALL.

Pride.

RIDE is fo unfociable a vice, and does all things with fo ill a grace, that there is no clofing with it. A proud man will be fure to challenge more than belongs to him; you must expect him stiff in his conversation, fulfome in commending himself, and bitter in his reproofs.-JEREMY COLLIER.

MILTON.

Prudence.

RUDENCE is that virtue by which we difcern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place.

2. PRUDENCE is a neceffary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excefs.-JEREMY COL

LIER.

Character of Queen Anne.

M HEN was there ever

a better

Prince on the throne than the

prefent* Queen? I do not talk of her government, her love of the people, or qualities that are purely regal; but her piety, charity, temperance and conjugal love.-SWIFT.

Reading.

HOUGH reading and converfation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things; yet it is our own meditation that muft form our judgment.-DR. ISAAC Watts.

2. READING maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing a correct man; and therefore, if a man write little, he had need of a great memory; if he confer little, he need have a prefent wit; and if he

*What was true in 1704 is equally true in 1851, and Swift's character of Queen Anne is equally applicable to Queen Victoria.--Ed.

read little, he need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.-LORD BACON.

3. A man may as well expect to grow ftronger by always eating, as wifer by always reading. Too much overcharges nature; and turns more into disease than nourishment. It is thought and digeftion which makes Books ferviceable and gives health and vigour to the mind. Books well chofen, neither dull the appetite nor ftrain the memory; but refresh the inclinations, ftrengthen the powers, and improve under experiments. By Reading, a man does, as it were, antedate his life and makes himself contemporary with paft ages.-JEREMY COLLIER.

Reality.

HE beft accounts of the appearances of nature, in any fingle inftance that human penetration can reach, comes infinitely fhort of its reality and internal conftitution; for who can fearch out the Almighty's works to perfection?-DR. CHEYNE.

Reafon.

ANY there be that complain of Divine Providence, for fuffering Adam to tranfgrefs. Foolish tongues! when God gave him Reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reafon is but choofing; he had been elfe a mere artificial Adam, fuch an Adam as he is in the *motions. We ourselves efteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force. God therefore left him free, fet before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein confifted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abftinence.-MILTON.

2. REASON is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow creatures, the beafts, in this lower world.-ISAAC WATTS.

3. THERE are few things Reason can difcover with fo much certainty and ease, as its own infufficiency.-JEREMY COLLIER.

In olden times, a puppet-fhow.-Ed.