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Seek the knowledge of the eftate of every prince, court and city that you pass through. Address yourself to the company to learn this of the elder fort, and yet neglect not the younger. By the one you will gather learning, wifdom and knowledge: by the other acquaintance, languages and exercife. This he effectually obferved, with great gain of understanding.-SIR HENRY SIDNEY.

Triunity of Justice.

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Y a threefold juftice the world has been governed from the beginning: by a juftice Natural, by which the parents and elders of families governed their children; in which the obedience was called natural piety. Again by a juftice Divine, drawn from the laws of God; and the obedience was called confcience and laftly, by a juftice Civil, begotten by both the former; and the obedience to which we call duty.-SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

Triunities of Poetry.

HE three excellencies of Poetry, are fimplicity of language, fimplicity of fubject, and fimplicity of invention.

The three indispensable purities of Poetry, are pure truth, pure language and pure man

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ners.

Three things must be avoided in Poetry, the frivolous, the obfcure and the fuperfluous. Three things all Poetry fhould be; thoroughly erudite, thoroughly animated and thoroughly natural.

The three primary requifites of poetic Genius, are an eye that can fee nature, a heart that can feel nature and a refolution that dares follow nature.

The three things that conftitute a Poet; genius, knowledge and impulfe.

The three foundations of Genius, the gift of God, man's exertion and the events of

The three indifpenfables of Genius, are understanding, feeling and perfeverance. The three things that enrich Genius, are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts and exercifing the memory. SOUTHEY.

True Courage.

RUE courage is the refult of reafoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

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Refolution lies

more in the head than in the

veins, and a juft fenfe of honour and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us further than all the force of mechanism.JEREMY COLLier.

True Riches.

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HE man that would be truly rich, muft not increase his fortune, but retrench his defires.-SENECA.

True Morality.

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N morality there are books enough writ both by ancient and modern philofophers; but the morality of the Gospel doth fo exceed them all, that to give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I fhall fend him to no other book than the New Teftament.-LOCKE.

Truth.

RUTH is the offspring of unbroken meditations and of thoughts often revised and corrected. WOLLASTON.

2. TRUTH is the band of union and the bafis of human happiness. Without this virtue there is no reliance upon language, no confidence in friendship, no fecurity in promifes and oaths.-JEREMY COLLIER.

3. TRUTH is the joining or feparating of figns, as the things fignified agree or disagree. LOCKE.

4. THE precipitancy of difputation, and the ftir and noife of paffions that ufually at

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tend it, muft needs be prejudicial to Truth; for its calm infinuations can no more be heard in fuch a buftle, than a whistle among a crowd of failors in a ftorm.-GLANVILLE.

Tuition.

HEN fo much of true life is put into them, freely talk with them about what most delights them; that they may perceive that those

under whofe tuition they are, are not enemies to their fatisfaction.-LOCKE.

2. No fcience is fpeedily learned by the nobleft genius without tuition.

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DR. WATTS.

Tully and Tillotson, on the Immortality of the Soul.

ULLY, the chief Philofopher among the Romans, expreffeth himself with a good degree of confidence on the Immortality of

the foul. He argues for it in feveral parts of

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