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And earliest embraces of earth's parents,
Can make its offspring; still it is delusion.

TEMPTATION.

Cain, Act. II. Scene II.-BYRON.

The turning point in

For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.

TEMPTATION.

Measure for Measure, Act. II. Scene II.
SHAKSPERE.

Resisting

When I cannot be forced, I am fooled out of my integrity. He cannot constrain if I do not consent. If I do but keep possession, all the posse of hell cannot violently eject me; but I cowardly surrender to his summons. Thus there needs no more to be my undoing but myself. Personal Meditations, XV. THOMAS FULLER.

TEMPTATION and MINISTRATION.

night and day. and heaven, but Such is the case of

Lord, I read of my Saviour, that when he was in the wilderness, then the devil leaveth him, and behold angels came and ministered unto him. A great change in a little time. No twilight betwixt No purgatory condition betwixt hell instantly, when out devil, in angel. every solitary soul. It will make company for itself. A musing mind will not stand neuter a minute, but presently side with legions of good or bad thoughts.

Grant, therefore, that my soul, which ever will have

some, may never have bad company.

Scripture Observations, XIII.—THOMAS FULLER.

TEMPTING and YIELDING.

'Tis one thing to be tempted,

Another thing to fall.

Measure for Measure, Act 11. Scene I.
SHAKSPERE.

TENDERNESS.

I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly:
I trod upon a worm against my will,
But I wept for it.

Pericles, Act IV. Scene 1.-SHAKSPERE.

THEATRICALS in England and China.

The English are as fond of seeing plays acted as the Chinese; but there is a vast difference in the manner of conducting them. We play our pieces in the open air, the English theirs under cover; we act by daylight, they by the blaze of torches. One of our plays continues eight or ten days successively; an English piece seldom takes up above four hours in the representation.

Letters from a Citizen of the World, Letter v.
GOLDSMITH.

THINGS LOST are valued most.

So falls out,

That what we have we prize not to the worth,

Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
Why then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue, that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.

Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV. Scene I.
SHAKSPERE.

THINKING. How to acquire halts of

The habit of thinking with steadiness and attention can only be acquired by avoiding the distraction which a multiplicity of objects always creates, by turning our observation from external things; and seeking a situation in which our daily occupations are not perpetually shifting their course, and changing their direction.

THOUGHT.

High thoughts!

Solitude, Cap. II.-J. G. ZIMMERMAN.

They come and go,

Like the soft breathings of a listening maiden, While round me flow

The winds, from woods and fields with gladness

laden:

When the corn's rustle on the ear doth come-
When the eve's beetle sounds its drowsy hum-
When the stars, dewdrops of the summer sky,
Watch over all with soft and loving eye-

While the leaves quiver

By the lone river,

And the quiet heart

From depths doth call,
And garners all-
Earth grows a shadow
Forgotten whole,

And Heaven lives

THOUGHTS.

In the blessed soul !

Thoughts of Heaven.-ROBERT NICOLL.

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.

Conversational Remarks of Rev. ROBERT HALL.

THOUGHTS. Purity of

The

O be thou a fan

To purge the chaff, and keep the winnow'd grain : Make clean thy thoughts, and dress thy mixt desires:

Thou art Heaven's tasker, and thy God requires purest of thy flower, as well as of thy fires.

TIME.

Emblems, Book II. 7.-FRANCIS QUARLES.

Origin of

From old Eternity's mysterious orb

Was time cut off, and cast beneath the skies;

The skies, which watch him in his new abode,
Measuring his motions by revolving spheres:
That horologe machinery divine.

Hours, days, and months, and years, his children play,
Like numerous wings, around him, as he flies:

Or rather, as unequal plumes, they shape
His ample pinions, swift as darted flame,
To gain his goal, to reach his ancient rest,
And join anew Eternity his sire;

In his immutability to nest,

When worlds, that count his circles now, unhinged, (Fate the loud signal sounding) headlong rush

To timeless night and chaos, whence they rose.

TIME. Mysteries of

Night Thoughts, II. Line 208.

EDWARD YOUNG.

Time,-mysterious chronicler !

He knoweth not mutation ;- centuries
Are to his being as a day, and days

As centuries.-Time past, and Time to come,
Are always equal; when the world began

God had existed from eternity.

TIME. Flight of

Time: A Poem.-H. K. WHITE.

Time flies on restless pinions-constant never.
Be constant-and thou chainest time for ever.
The Immutable.-SCHILLER.

TIME. Redeeming

Alas! how much of my life is lavished away? Oh, the intricacies, windings, wanderings, twinings, tergiversations, of my deceitful youth! have lived in the midst of a crooked generation, and with them have turned aside into crooked ways. High time it is

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