If you'll heal me quickly, Boil a drum-head in my broth. I never prosper The Knight of Malta, Act II. Scene IV. PRIDE. 'Tis thus that Pride triumphant rears her head,— A little while and all her power is fled. The Captivity, Act III.-GOLDSMITH. Pride lives with all; strange names our rustics give To helpless infants, that their own may live; Pleased to be known, they'll some attention claim, And find some by-way to the house of fame. The Parish Register, Part I.-G. CRABBE. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Essay on Man.-ALEX. POPE. PRIDE to a certain extent Allowable. Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up his dignity. In gluttons there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking; it is not the eating, nor it is not the drinking, that is to be blamed, but the excess. So in pride. PRIDE. Table Talk.-JOHN SELDEN. How to Overcome Say to thy pride," "Tis all but ashes for the urn; Come, let us own our dust, before to dust we turn." Strung Pearls.-RUCKERT. PRIESTHOOD. The In the earlier times of Rome the priesthood was a profession, not of lucre but of honour. It was embraced by the noblest citizens-it was forbidden to the plebeians. Afterwards, it was equally open to all ranks; at least that part of the profession which embraced the flamens, or priests, not of religion generally, but of peculiar gods. The Last Days of Pompeii, Book II. Chapter II. E. B. LYTTON. PROCRASTINATION in Principle and Practice. Delays in business are dangerous.-I must send for the smith next week-and in the meantime will take a minute of it. The Drummer, Act III. Scene 1. ADDISON. PROFESSION. Choice of a Let my children be husbandmen and housewives; it is industrious, healthy, honest, and of good example: like Abraham and the holy ancients, who pleased God, and obtained a good report. This leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions of a luxurious world. Letter to his Wife and Children.—WM. PENN. PROGRESS and SUCCESS. If the wild filly, "Progress," thou wouldst ride, But, wouldst thou stride the staunch old mare, "Success," Go with thine elders, though they please thee less. Urania.-O. W. HOLMES. PROMISES. Efficacy of God's Now, a little before it was day, good Christian, as one half amazed, brake out in this passionate speech : What a fool (quoth he) am I thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty? I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. Then said Hopeful, That's good news, good brother; pluck it out of thy bosom and try. PROPERTY. Pilgrim's Progress.-JOHN BUNYAN. If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn, and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap, reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse, keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst pigeon of the flock; sitting round, and looking on all the winter, whilst this one was devouring, throwing about and wasting it; and if a pigeon, more hardy or hungry than the rest, touched a grain of the hoard, all the others instantly flying upon it and tearing it to pieces; if you should see this, you would see nothing more than what is every day practised and established among men. PROPERTY. Origin of Of Property.-Dr. PALEY. In the beginning of the world, we are informed by holy writ, the all-bountiful Creator gave to man "dominion over all the earth, and over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” This is the only true and solid foundation of man's dominion over external things, whatever airy metaphysical notions may have been started by fanciful writers upon this subject. And while the earth continued bare of inhabitants, it is reasonable to suppose that all was in common among them, and that every one took from the public stock to his own use such things as his immediate necessities required. Commentary on the right of Property. PROSPERITY. Sir WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. Enervating Influence of Characters enervated by prosperity feel the smallest inconvenience as a serious calamity, and, unable to bear the touch of rude and violent hands, require to be treated like young and tender flowers, with delicacy and attention; while those who have been educated in the rough school of adversity walk over the thorns of life with a firm and intrepid step, and kick them from the path with indifference and contempt. Solitude, Cap. III.-J. G. ZIMMERMAN. PROSPERITY and ADVERSITY. Prosperity is a stronger trial of virtue than adversity. PROTECTION and PRESERVATION. Lord be pleased to make the hedge high enough and thick enough that if I be so mad as to adventure to climb over it, I may not only soundly rake my clothes, but rend my flesh; yea, let me rather be caught and stick in the hedge, than, breaking in through it, fall on the other side into the deep ditch of eternal damnation. Mixt Contemplations, XIX.-THOMAS FULLER. PROVIDENCE. Read Heaven's decrees; they're writ in mystic sense, Men would be gods, or they no deities. |