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The king, who nods upon his rattle throne;
The staggering peer, to midnight revel prone;
The slow-tongued bishop, and the deacon sly;
The humble pensioner, and the gownsman dry;
The proud, the mean, the selfish, and the great,
Swell the dull throng, and stagger into state.
Inebriety.-G. CRABBE

INGRATITUDE.

Ingratitude is monstrous: and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of the which, we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members.

Coriolanus, Act II. Scene III.-SHAKSPERE.

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The principal causes of ingratitude are pride and self-conceit, avarice, envy, etc. It is a familiar exclamation, ""Tis true, he did this or that for me, but it came so late, and it was so little, I had e'en as good have been without it: If he had not given it to me, he must have given it to somebody else; it was nothing out of his own pocket." Nay, we are so ungrateful, that he that gives us all we have, if he leaves anything to

himself, we reckon that he does us an injury.

Seneca's Morals, translated by Sir ROGER L'ESTRANGE.

INGRATITUDE. One species of

An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is

a sort of ingratitude.

Maxims, CCXLVIII.-ROCHEFoucault.

INNOCENCE.

Asseveration of

Make my breast

Transparent as pure crystal, that the world,
Jealous of me, may see the foulest thought
My heart holds.

Philaster, Act III.-BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

INNOCENCE and GUILT.

Innocence finds not near so much protection as guilt. Maxims, CCLIV.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

INSTINCT and REASON.

But man's instincts are elevated and

ennobled by the moral ends and purposes of his being. He is not destined to be the slave of blind impulses, a vessel purposeless, unmeant. He is constituted by his moral and intelligent will to be the first freed being, the masterwork and the end of nature; but this freedom and high office can only co-exist with fealty and devotion to the service of truth and virtue.

INSTRUCTION.

Vital Dynamics.-MATTHEW GREENE.

Education, indeed, has made the fondness for fine things next to natural; the corals and bells teach infants on the breasts to be delighted with sound and glitter. The Fool of Quality, Chapter 11.-H. BROOKE.

INTEREST.

Interest speaks all languages, and acts all parts, even that of disinterestedness itself.

INVISIBILITY.

Maxims, CCLV.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

No

Many things have been done in hugger-mugger in our age; profane persons conceited that their privacy protected them from divine inspection. Some say, with the wicked in the Psalm, Tush, shall the Lord see. Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XLVII. THOMAS FULLER.

Fealousies in States.

Nothing is more usual among states which have made some advances in commerce, than to look on the progress of their neighbours with a suspicious eye, to consider all trading states as their rivals, and to suppose that it is impossible for any of them to flourish, but at their expense. In opposition to this narrow and malignant opinion, I will venture to assert, that the increase of riches and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting, commonly promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbours; and that a state can scarcely carry its trade and industry very far, where all the surrounding states are buried in ignorance, sloth and barbarism.

Essay on the Jealousy of Trade.-DAVID HUME.

JEALOUSY.

It is a monster,

Begot upon itself, born on itself.

JEALOUSY.

Othello, Act III. Scene IV.-SHAKSPERE.

Venom of

The venom clamours of a jealous woman
Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.
Comedy of Errors, Act v. Scene I.-SHAKSPERE.

JEWS.

JOY.

The

Amazing race! deprived of land and laws,
A general language, and a public cause;
With a religion none can now obey,
With a reproach that none can take away:
A people still, whose common ties are gone;
Who, mix'd with every race, are lost in none.
The Borough, Letter IV.-G. CRABBE.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole

Of endless Nature's calm rotation;
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
In the great Timepiece of Creation;
Joy breathes on buds, and flowers they are ;

Joy beckons suns come forth from heaven;

Joy rolls the spheres in realms afar,

Ne'er to thy glass, dim Wisdom, given !

Hymn to Joy.-Schiller.

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Upon two stony tables, spread before her,
She leant her bosom, more than stony hard;
There slept th' impartial judge and strict restorer
Of wrong or right, with pain or with reward;
There hung the score of all our debts—the card
Where good, and bad, and life, and death, were
painted:

Was never heart of mortal so untainted,

But, when that scroll was read, with thousand terrors

fainted.

JUDGMENT.

The Temptation and Victory of Christ.
GILES FLETCHER.

Description of the Day of

Every man's fear shall be increased by his neighbour's shrieks; and the amazement that all the world shall be in, shall unite as the sparks of a raging furnace into a globe of fire, and roll upon its own principle, and increase by direct appearances and intolerable reflections. Course of Sermons for the Year.-JEREMY TAYLOR.

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He who the sword of heaven will bear

Should be as holy as severe;

Pattern in himself, to know,

Grace to stand, and virtue go;

More nor less to others paying,

Than by self-offences weighing.

Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene II.
SHAKSPERE.

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