A NATURAL.

ARBOUR.

LIKE CHILDren.
For arguments, like children, should be like

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath The subject that begets them.
the shade,

Thomas Decker.

EFFECT OF FALSE.

No argument can be drawn from the abuse of a thing against its use. Latin.

PERSEVERANCE IN

In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill,
For even tho' vanquish'd he could argue
still.
Goldsmith.

POWER.

He'd undertake to prove, by force
O' argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl,
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks committeemen and trustees.
Butler.

VANITY OF.

(I see) to argue 'gainst the grain,
Or, like the stars, incline men to
What they're averse themselves to do;
For when disputes are wearied out,
"Tis interest still resolves the doubt.

ARGUMENTS.

SUFFICIENCY OF.

Butler.

Examples I could cite you more;
But be contented with these four;
For when one's proofs are aptly chosen
Four are as valid as four dozen.

ARMS.

Prior.

I ride in golden armour like the sun,
And in my helm a triple plume shall spring
Soangled with diamonds dancing in the air.
Marlowe.

ARMY.

Pope. All in a moment through the gloom were

seen

One absurdity being admitted, one must Ten thousand banners rise into the air, submit to all that follows.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of Ionia. Johnson.

I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young

blood;

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. Cicero.

ATHEISM.

A MORAL PLAGUE.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

Jeremy Collier. CAN NEVER INSPIRE ELOQUENCE. There is no being eloquent for atheism. Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings,-the clearest proof that it is out of its element. Hare.

their spheres ;

Thy knotted and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
Shakespeare.

The two most engaging powers of an auBut will find something wanting or ill-thor are to make new things familiar, and drest.

Sir R. Howard. familiar things new.