Rudiments.

OULD it be believed, that a child fhould be forced to learn the rudiments of a language, which he is never to use, and neglect the

writing a good hand, and cafting accounts? -LOCKE.

Sagacity.

AGACITY finds out the intermediate ideas, to discover what connection there is in each link of the chain, whereby the ex

tremes are held together.-Locke.

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Sapience.

Y Sapience, I mean what the ancients did by Philofophy, the habit or difpofition of mind which importeth the love of Wisdom.

Sarcafms.

HEN an angry mafter fays to his fervant, it is bravely done, it is one way of giving a fevere reproach; for the words are spoken by way of farcafm or irony. - DR. İSAAC WATTS.

Satire.

E that hath a fatirical vein, as maketh others afraid of his wit, fo he need be afraid of others memory.-LORD BACON.

2. ALL vain pretenders have been conftantly the topics of the moft candid fatirifts, from the Codrus of Juvenal to the Damon of Boileau.-CLEVELAND.

3. SHOULD a writer fingle out and point his raillery at particular perfons or fatirize the miserable, he might be fure to please a great part of his readers; but he must be a very ill man if he could please himself.

ADDISON.

4. SATIRE and invective are the easiest kind of wit. Almost any degree of it will ferve to abuse and find fault. For wit is a keen inftrument, and every one can cut and thruft with it; but to carve a beautiful ftatue and to polish it requires great art and dexterity. To praise any thing well is an argument of much more wit than to abuse. A little wit and a great deal of ill nature will furnish a man for fatire, but the greatest inftance of wit is to commend well. And perhaps the best things are the hardest to be duly commended. For although there be a great deal of matter to work upon, yet there is great judgment required to make choice and where the subject is great and excellent, it is difficult not to fink below the dignity of it.-ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON.

5. It is as hard to fatirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of diftinguished virtues.-SWIFT.

6. ON me, when dunces are satiric I take it for a panegyric.-Ibid.

7. You must not think, that a satiric style,

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allows of fcandalous and brutifh words.ROSCOMMON.

8. A SATIRE fhould expofe nothing but what is corrigible; and fhould make a due difcrimination between thofe that are, and those that are not the proper objects of it. -ADDISON.

Self-conceit.

ELF-CONCEIT is a weighty quality and will fometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a

fault beyond proportion and fwells every omiffion into an outrage. JEREMY COL

LIER.

Self-denial.

IS much the doctrine of the times that men fhould not please themfelves, but deny themselves every thing they take delight in; not to look upon Beauty, wear no good clothing,

eat no good meat. The truth is, they that preach against them cannot make use of them themselves; and then again, they gain esteem by feeming to contemn them. But, mark it while you live, if they do not please themfelves as much as they can.-Selden.

Self-knowledge.

E muft regard ourselves as criminals whose prifon is filled with representations of their deliverers,

and with the requifite directions for obtaining their freedom. But it must be confeffed that we cannot read thefe facred fymbols without a fupernatural light; for as all things fpeak of God to those who know Him and reveal Him to those who love Him; these very things yet tend to obfcure him from thofe who know him not. PASCAL.

2. PLEASURE of what kind foever, is but an agreement between the object and the faculty. This defcription, if well applied, will give us the true height of ourselves and