best there, but the practice here; the wilderness hath the advantage of discipline, and fociety opportunities of perfection.-JEREMY TAYLOR.

5. IT had been hard to have put more truth and untruth together, in a few words, than in that speech, "Whofoever is delighted with folitude is either a wild beast or a god." -LORD BACON.

6. SUCH only can enjoy the country, who are capable of thinking when they are there : then they are prepared for folitude, and in that, folitude is prepared for them.-Dryden.

7. You fubject yourself to folitude; the fly enemy that doth separate a man from well doing. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY.

Soul and Body.

F one had nothing but a foul to keep, he need not go to service to maintain it. But a body is a very indigent fort of a thing, it cannot fubfift upon its own growth, but ftands in

want of continual fupplies. This circumftance of eating and drinking, is a cruel check upon many a man's dignities, and makes him hold his life by a very fervile tenure.--JEREMY COLLIER.

Spiritual Learning.

F fpiritual learning I may fay, that the fecrets of the Kingdom of Heaven are not truly and thoroughly understood, but by the Sons of the Kingdom; and by them in feveral degrees and to various purposes. But to evil perfons the whole fyftem of this wisdom is infipid and flat; dull as the foot of a rock, and unlearned as are the elements of our mothertongue. But fo are mathematics to a Scythian* boor and mufic to a camel.-JEREMY TAYLOR.

*The learned Prelate, probably alludes to the ancient proverb Anacharfis inter Scythos, meaning a fcarce perfon, Anacharfis being the only philofopher on record, who was a native of that rude country.-ED.

Sublimity.

N refpect of God's incomprehenfible fublimity and purity, this is alfo true, that God is neither a mind nor a spirit like other spirits, nor a light fuch as can be feen.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

2. Of all the defcriptions I ever read, there is no one that seems to me fo awful and fo tremendous, as the defcent of God upon Mount Horeb and the amazing phonomena that attended it. The pomp pretended to by Pagan deities, when fet off by the grandeur of Poetry and the magic of numbers, is uncouth, ridiculous and profane. The proceffion of Bacchus as defcribed by Ovid (lib. iii.) is neither more nor lefs than a downright drunken riot, or the brutal paftime of a diforderly country wake. The boisterous expedition of Neptune, even as painted by the great master Homer (Iliad xiii.) represents nothing more auguft than the roaring of London bridge, or a rabble of fea monfters frifking in a florm. May that famous fpeech

of Jupiter (Iliad xviii.) where he maintains his fupereminence by shaking Olympus with his imperial nod, and menacing his refractory offspring, in case they should rebel, though it certainly is embellished with the utmost force of words and stretch of art, is, at the best, but a lame and imperfect copy, in the main ftrokes of it, from the native majefty of the unlaboured profe of the nineteenth chapter of Exodus. It must be admitted, however, that our English Poet MILTON has, in feveral places, described the usual display of the Divine Majesty in a very magnificent man

ner:

"Clouds began

To darken all the hill, and fmoak to roll
In dusky wreathes, reluctant flames, the fight
Of wrath awak'd: nor with lefs dread the loud
Etherial trumpet from on high 'gan blow,
At which command the powers militant,
That stood for Heav'n, in mighty quadrate join'd
Of union irresistible, mov'd on

In filence their bright legions, to the found
Of inftrumental harmony."

Again,

"He on his impious foes right onward drove

Gloomy as night: under his burning wheels
The ftedfaft Empyrean fhoots throughout,
All but the throne of God."

And again,

"He ended, and the fun gave fignal high
To the bright minister that watch'd; he blew
His trumpet, heard on Oreb, fince perhaps
When God defcended, and perhaps once more
To found the general doom."

JOHNSON.

PAR. LOST. Lib. vi. and xi.
STACKHOUSE.

Success.

UCCESS produces confidence, confidence relaxes induftry, and negligence ruins that reputation which accuracy had raifed.-DR.

2. HE that would relifh fuccefs to a good purpose, fhould keep his paffions cool, and his expectations low; and then, it is poffible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rifes by furprize, and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for. -JEREMY COLlier.