master needs an extra coachman, he will mount the box and drive four horses abreast as though it were his daily occupation. It is probable that none of these operations, except, perhaps, the last, will be as well performed as in a country where the division of labour is more thoroughly understood. They will all, however, be sufficiently well done to serve the turn-a favourite phrase in Russia.

Domestic Scenes in Russia.-Rev. MR. VENABLES.

SERVANTS.

Servants are good for nothing, unless they have an opinion of the person's understanding who has the direction of them.

SERVICE.

The Drummer, Act IV. Scene 1.-ADDISON.

God's

Well fare their hearts who will not only wear out their shoes but also their feet in God's service, and yet gain not a shoe latchet thereby.

Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XXXVI.
THOMAS FULLER.

SHIP AT SEA. Description of a

How gloriously her gallant course she goes!
Her white wings flying-never from her foes—
She walks the water like a thing of life,
And seems to dare the elements to strife.

The Corsair, Canto I. Verse iii.
LORD BYRON.

SHIPWRECK.

An Evil Spirit's account of a

The ship sailed on, the ship sailed fast,
But I left not a sail, and I left not a mast;
There is not a plank of the hull or the deck,
And there is not a wretch to lament o'er his wreck;
Save one, whom I held, as he swam, by the hair,
And he was a subject well worthy my care;
A traitor on land, and a pirate at sea-

But I saved him to wreck further havoc for me!

Manfred, Act II. Scene III.-BYRON.

SICKNESS.

Patience in

When a good man is ill at his ease, God promiseth to make all his bed in his sickness, pillow, bolster, head, feet, sides, all his bed. Surely that God who made him knows so well his measure and temper as to make his bed to please him. Herein his art is excellent, not fitting the bed to the person, but the person to the bed, infusing patience into him.

Scripture Observations, XII.-THOMAS FULLER.

SIGHS.

'Tis true, the breath of sighs throws mist upon a

mirror;

But yet, through breath of sighs the soul's clear glass grows clearer.

Strung Pearls.-RUCKERT.

SILENCE.

Silence is the happiest course a man can take who

is diffident of himself.

Maxims, CCCCLXXVIII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

SILENCE and DARKNESS.

Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve

(That column of true majesty in man).

Night Thoughts, I. Line 28.-EDWARD YOUNG.

SILENCE in NATURE.

Nature's self is hush'd,

And, but a scatter'd leaf, which rustles through
The thick-wove foliage, not à sound is heard
To break the midnight air; though the raised ear,
Intensely listening, drinks in every breath.

How deep the silence, yet how loud the praise!
A Summer Evening's Meditation.---Mrs. BARBAULD.

SIN.

Growth of

No man can be stark naught at once.

Let us stop

the progress of sin in our soul at the first stage, for the goes the faster it will increase.

farther it

Scripture Observations, XI.-THOMAS FULLER.

SIN. The rule of

When vice triumphant holds her sovereign sway,
And men through life her willing slaves obey;

T

When folly, frequent harbinger of crime,
Unfolds her motley store to suit the time;
When knaves and fools combined o'er all prevail,
When justice halts, and right begins to fail;
E'en then the boldest start from public sneers,
Afraid of shame, unknown to other fears,
More darkly sin, by satire kept in awe,

And shrink from ridicule, though not from law.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.-BYRON.

SIN. Miseries of

I live,

But live to die: and, living, see no thing
To make death hateful, save an innate clinging,
A loathsome, and yet all invincible

Instinct of life, which I abhor, as I

Despise myself, yet cannot overcome

And so I live. Would I had never lived!

Cain, Act I. Scene I.-BYRON.

SINCERITY. The Shield of

Such as are sensible with sorrow that their well-intending simplicity hath been imposed upon, abused, and deluded by the subtilty of others, may comfort and content themselves in the sincerity of their own souls; God no doubt hath already forgiven them, and therefore men ought to revoke their uncharitable censures of them. And yet divine justice will have its full tale of

intended stripes, taking so many off from the back of the deceived, and laying them on the shoulders of the deceivers. Mixt Contemplations on these Times, XX. THOMAS FUller.

SINS and REPENTANCE.

The mariners at sea count it the sweetest perfume when the water in the keel of their ship doth stink. For hence they conclude that it is but little and long since leaked in; but it is woful to them when the water is felt before it is smelt, as fresh flowing in upon them in abundance. It is the best sorrow in a Christian soul when his sins are loathsome and offensive unto him. A happy token that there hath not been of late in him any insensible supply of heinous offences, because his stale sins are still his new and daily sorrow.

SKULL.

Mixt Contemplations, VII.-THOMAS FULLER.

The moral of a

Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall,
Its chambers desolate, and portals foul:
Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall,
The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul:
Behold through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole,
The gay recess of Wisdom and of Wit,

And Passion's host, that never brook'd control;
Can all, saint, age, or sophist ever writ,
People this lonely tower, this tenement refit?

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II. Stanza VI.
LORD BYRON.