than the same in spring. The sprightly green is then obfuscated.

Thus

SMOOTHNESS and easy transitions are no small ingredient in the beautiful; abrupt and rectangular breaks have more of the nature of the sublime. a tapering spire is, perhaps, a more beautiful object than a tower, which is grander.

MANY of the different opinions relating to the preference to be given to seats, villas, &c. are owing to want of distinction betwixt the beautiful and the magnificent. Both the former and the latter please: but there are imaginations particularly adapted to the one, and to the other.

MR. ADDISON thought an open uninclosed champaign country, formed the best landscape. Somewhat here is to be considered. Large unvariegated, simple objects have the best pretensions to sublimity; a large mountain, whose sides are unvaried with objects, is grander than one with infinite variety: But then its beauty is proportionably less.

How

HOWEVER, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves: And then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

OFFENSIVE objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty: For instance, stubble fallow ground

ON POLITICS.

ERHAPS men of the most different sects and parties very frequently think the same; only vary in their phrase and lan

guage. At least, if one examines their

first principles, which very often coincide, it were a point of prudence, as well as candour, to consider the rest as nothing more.

A COURTIER'S dependent is a beggar's dog.

IF national reflections are unjust, because there are good men in all nations, are not national wars upon much the same footing?

A GOVERNMENT is inexcusable for employing foolish ministers; because they may examine a man's head though they cannot his heart.

I FANCY, the proper means of increasing the love

we

we bear our native country, is to reside some time in a foreign one.

THE love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blameable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

THERE ought, no doubt, to be heroes in society as well as butchers; and who knows but the necessity of butchers (inflaming and stimulating the passions with animal food) might at first occasion the necessity of heroes. Butchers, I believe, were prior.

THE whole mystery of a courtly behaviour seems included in the power of making general favours appear particular ones.

A MAN of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happens to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.

INDOLENCE is a kind of centripetal force.

It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favour? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?

A SPORTSMAN of vivacity will make choice of that game which will prolong his diversion: A fox, that will support the chace till night, is better game than a rabbit, that will not afford him half an hour's entertainment. E.

THE submission of Prince Hal to the civil magistrate that committed him, was more to his honour than all the conquests of Henry the Fifth in France.

THE most animated social pleasure, that I can conceive, may be, perhaps, felt by a general after a successful engagement, or in it: I mean by such commanders as have souls equal to their occupation.

This,