And earliest embraces of earth's parents, TEMPTATION. Cain, Act. II. Scene II.-BYRON. The turning point in For I am that way going to temptation, TEMPTATION. Measure for Measure, Act. II. Scene II. 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. TENDERNESS. I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly: 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. 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, Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV. Scene I. 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- While the leaves quiver By the lone river, And the quiet heart From depths doth call, 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, Hours, days, and months, and years, his children play, Or rather, as unequal plumes, they shape 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 As centuries.-Time past, and Time to come, God had existed from eternity. TIME. Flight of Time: A Poem.-H. K. WHITE. Time flies on restless pinions-constant never. 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 |