spring appeareth, all begin to rise; the plants and flowers peep out of their graves, revive, and grow, and flourish; this is the annual resurrection.

An Exposition on the Creed.-DR. JOHN PEARSON.

Sweet solitary life, thou true repose,

Wherein the wise contemplate heaven aright;

In thee no dread of war or worldly foes

;

In thee no pomp seduceth mortal sight;
In thee no wanton ears, to win with words,
Nor lurking toys, which city-life affords.

REVENGE.

Retirement.-THOMAS LODGE.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out for as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law, but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Essay on Revenge.-LORD BACON.

RICHES.

I cannot call riches better than the baggage of virtue; the Roman word is better, "impedimenta ;" for as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue; it cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory; of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution; the rest is but conceit. Essay on Riches.-LORD BACON.

RICHES. Value of

Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men, because they always purchase pleasures such as men are accustomed to and desire: nor can anything restrain or regulate the love of money but a sense of honour and virtue, which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refine

ment.

Essay on the Effects of Luxury.
DAVID HUME.

RIGHT.

Always

Hath there been such a time (I'd fain know that),

That I have positively said, ""Tis so,"

When it proved otherwise?

Hamlet, Act II. Scene II.-SHAKSPERE.

RITUAL. The English

Nor would I leave unsung

The lofty ritual of our sister land:

In vestment white, the minister of God
Opens the book, and reverentially

The stated portion reads. A pause ensues,
The organ breathes its distant thunder-notes,
Then swells into a diapason full :

The people rising, sing, With harp, with harp,
And voice of psalms; harmoniously attuned
The various voices blend; the long-drawn aisles,
At every close, the lingering strain prolong.

And now the tubes a mellowed stop controls,
In softer harmony the people join,
While liquid whispers from yon orphan band
Recall the soul from adoration's trance,
And fill the eye with pity's gentle tears.
Again the organ peal, loud rolling, meets
The halleluiahs of the choir : Sublime
A thousand notes symphoniously ascend,
As if the whole were one, suspended high
In air, soaring heavenward: afar they float,
Wafting glad tidings to the sick man's couch:
Raised on his arm, he lists the cadence close,
Yet thinks he hears it still: his heart is cheered;
He smiles on death; but, ah! a wish will rise,—
"Would I were now beneath that echoing roof!"
The Sabbath.-JAMES GRAHAME.

RIVULET. Description of a

The rivulet,

Wanton and wild, through many a green ravine
Beneath the forest flowed. Sometimes it fell
Among the moss with hollow harmony,

Dark and profound. Now on the polished stones.
It danced, like childhood, laughing as it went:
Then, through the plain in tranquil wanderings crept,
Reflecting every herb and drooping bud

That overhung its quietness.

Alaster; or the Spirit of Solitude.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

Sabbath Morning. The

The Sabbath morn

Is sweet-all sound, save nature's voice, is still :
Mute shepherd's song-pipe, mute the harvest horn;
A holier tongue is given to brook and rill :
Old men climb silently their cottage-hill,

There ruminate and look sublime abroad,

Shake from their feet, as thought on thought comes still,

The dust of life's long dark and dreary road,

And rise from this gross earth, and give the day to God.

SAGACITY.

Sabbath Morning.—ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.

Human sagacity, stimulated by human wants, seizes first on the nearest natural assistant. The power of his own arm is an early lesson among the studies of primitive man. This is animal strength; and from this he rises to the conception of employing, for his own use, the strength of other animals.

Progress of the Mechanical Arts.
DANIEL Webster.

SATAN. Double dealing of

Besides, Satan will never shew himself but to his

own advantage.

If as a devil, to fright them; if as an

angel of light, to flatter them, however to hurt them.

Mixt Contemplations, IV.-THOMAS FULLER.

SATAN. Signs of Grief in

He now prepared

To speak: whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assay'd; and thrice, in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth; at last Words, interwove with sighs, found out their way. Paradise Lost, Book 1. Line 575.

JOHN MILTON.

SATAN'S Method of Tempting.

Satan is a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Only he inverts the method, and in his bill of fare takes the second course first. Ever since he overtempted our grandmother Eve, encouraged with success, he hath preyed first on the weaker sex. It seems he hath all the vices, not the virtues, of that king of beasts; a wolf-lion having his cruelty without his generosity. Occasional Meditations, XIV.

SCHOOL.

A Country

THOMAS FULLER.

In every village marked with little spire,
Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame,
There dwells, in lowly shed, and mean attire,
A matron old, whom we schoolmistress name;
Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame:
They grieven sore, in piteous durance pent,
Awed by the power of this relentless dame;