voice loud; the tone chiding, unequal, surly, vehement. The sentences short, and abrupt.

Commendation or approbation, from a superior, put on the aspect of love, (excluding Desire and Respect,) and expresses it. self in a mild tone of voice; the arms gently spread, the palmis of the hands toward the person approved. Exhorting, or encouraging, as of an army by a general, is expressed with some part of the looks and action of courage.

Jealousy would be likely to be well expressed by one who had often seen prisoners tortured in the dungeons of the inquisition, or who had seen what the dungeons of the inquisition are the best earthly emblems of; I mean Hell. For next to being in the Pope's or Satan's prison, is the torture of him who is possessed with the spirit of Jealousy. Being a mixture of passions directly contra ry to one another, the person, whose soul is the seat of such confusion and tumult, must be in much greater misery than Prometheus, with the Vulture tearing his liver, as the pains of the mind are greater than those of the body. Jealousy is a ferment of love, hatred, hope, fear, shame, anxiety, suspicion, grief, pity, envy, pride, rage, cruelty, vengeance, madness, and if there be any other tormenting passions, which can agitate the human mind. Therefore to express jealousy well, requires that one know how to represent justly all these passions by turns. (See Love, Hatred, &c.) And often several of them together. Jealousy shows itself by restlessness, peevishness, thoughtfulness, anxiety, absence of mind. Sometimes it bursts out in piteous complaint, and weeping; then a gleam of hope, that all is yet well, lights up the countenance into a momentary smile. Immediately the face clouded with a general gloom shews the mind overcast again with horrid suspicions, and frightful imaginations. Then the arms are folded upon the breast; the fists violently clenched; the rolling, bloody eyes dart fury. He hurries to and fro; he has no more rest, than a ship on a troubled sea, the sport of winds and waves. Again, he composes himself a little to reflect on the charms of the suspected person. She appears to his imagination like the sweetness of the rising dawn. Then his monster breeding fancy represents. her as false as she is fair. Then he roars out as one on the rack, when the cruel engine rends every joint, and every sinew burst. Then he throws himself on the ground. He beats his head against the pavement. Then he springs up, and with the look and action of a fury bursting hot from the abyss, he snatches the instrument of death, and after ripping up the bosom of the loved, suspected, hated, lamented, fair one, he stabs himself to the heart, and exhibits a striking proof, how terrible a creature a puny mortal is, when agitated by an infernal passion,

Dotage, or infirm old age, shews itself by talkativeness, boasting of the past, hollowness of the eyes and cheeks, dimmess of sight, deafness, tremour of voice, the accents, through de

fault of the teeth, scarce intelligible; hams weak, knees tottering, head paralytic, hollow coughing, frequent expectoration, breathless wheezing, laborious groaning, the body stooping under the insupportable load of years which soon shall crush it into the dust, from whence it had its origin.

Folly, that is of a natural idiot, gives the face an habitual thoughtless, brainless, grin. The eyes dance from object to object, without ever fixing steadily upon any one. A thousand different and incoherent passions, looks, gestures, speeches and absurdities, are played off every moment.

Distraction opens the eyes to a frightful wildness; rolls them hastily and wildly from object to object distorts every feature; gnashes with the teeth; agitates all parts of the body; rollsin the dust; foams at the mouth; utters with hideous bellowings, execrations, blasphemies, and all that is fierce and outrageous; rushes furiously on all who approach; and if not restrained, tears its own flesh and destroys itself.

Sickness has infirmity and feebleness in every motion and utterance. The eyes dim and almost closed; cheeks pale and hollow; the jaw fallen; the head hung down; as if too heavy to be supported by the neck. A general inertia prevails. The voice trembling; the utterance through the nose; every sentence accompanied with a groan; the hand shaking, and the knees tottering under the body; or the body stretched helpless on the bed.

Fainting, produces a sudden relaxation of all that holds the human frame together, every sinew and ligament unstrung. The colour flies from the vermillion cheek; the sparkling eyes grow dim. Down the body drops, as helpless and senseless, as a mass of clay, to which by its colour and appearance it seems hastening to resolve itself. Which leads me to conclude with, Death, the awful end of all flesh; which exhibits nothing in appearance different from what I have been just describing; for fainting continued, ends in death; a subject almost too seri ous to be made a matter of artificial imitation.

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Lower degrees of every passion are to be expressed by more moderate exertions of ice and gesture, as every public speaker's discretion will suggest to him.

Mixed passions, or emotions of the mind, require a mixed expression. Pity, for example, is composed of grief and love. It is therefore evident, that a correct speaker must, by his looks and gestures, and by the tone and pitch of his voice, express, both grief and love, in expressing pity, and so of the rest:

PART I.

LESSONS IN READING.

SECTION I.

SELECT SENTENCES.

1.

MAN'S chief good is an upright mind which no earthly power can bestow, nor take from him.

We ought to distrust our passions, cven when they appear the most reasonable.

It is idle as well as absurd, to impose our opinions upon others. The same ground of conviction operates differently on the same nan in different circumstances, and on different men in the same circumstances.

Choose what is most fit; custom will make it the most agreeable.

A cheerful countenance betokens a good heart. Hypocrisy is an homage that vice pays to virtue. Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride. Men make themselves ridiculous, not so much by the qualities they have, as by the affectation of those they have not.

Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so effectually as good hu

mour.

To say little, and perform much, is the characteristic of a great mind.

A man who gives his children a habit of industry, provides for them better than giving a stock of money.

II.

OUR good or bad fortune depends greatly on the choice we make of our friends.

The young are slaves to novelty, the old to custom.

No preacher is so successful as time. It gives a turn of thought to the aged, which it was impossible to inspire while they were young.

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

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Self partiality hides from us those very faults in ourselves, which we see, and blame in others.

The injuries we do and those we suffer, are seldom weighed in the same balance.

Men generally put a greater value upon the favours they be stow, than upon those they receive..

He who is puffed up with the first gale of prosperity, will bend beneath the first blast of adversity.

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. Men commonly owe their virtue, or their vice, to education,

as much as to nature.

There is no such fop as my young master of his lady-mother's making. She blows him up with self conceit, and there he stops.. She makes a man of him at twelve, and a boy all his life after.

An infallible way to make your child miserable, is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratifications; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his desires, will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become headstrong.

III.

WE esteem most things according to their intrinsic merit; it is strange MAN should be an exception. We prize a horse for his strength and courage, not for his furniture. We prize a man for his sumptuous palace, his great reign, his vast revenue; yet these are his furniture, not his mind.

The true conveniences of life are common to the king with his meanest subject. The king's sleep is not sweeter, nor his appetite better.

The pomp which distinguishes the great man from the mob, defends him not from the fever, nor from grief. Give a prince all the names of majesty that are found in a folio dictionary, the first attack of the gout will make him forget his palace and his guards. If he be in choler, will his princedom prevent him from turning pale, and gnashing his teeth like a fool? The smallest prick of a nail, the slightest passion of the soul, is capable of rendering insipid the monarchy of the world.

Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.

Those who are the most faulty, are the most prone to find faults in others.

The first and most important, female quality, is sweetness of temper. Heaven did not give to the female sex insinuation and persuasion, in order to be surly: it did not make them weak in order to be imperious; it did not give them a sweet voice, in or der to be employed in scolding: it did not provide them with delicate features, in order to be disfigured with anger.

Let fame be regarded, but conscience much more. It is an

empty joy to appear better than you are; but a great blessing to be what you ought to be.

Let your conduct be the result of deliberation, never of impatience.

In the conduct of life, let it be one great aim, to show that every thing you do proceeds from yourself, not from your passions. Chrysippus rewards in joy, chastises in wrath, doth every thing in a passion. No person stands in awe of Chrysippus, no person is grateful to him. Why? because it is not Chrysippus who acts, but his passions. We shun him in wrath, as we shun a wild beast; and this is all the authority he hath over us.

Indulge not desire, at the expense of the slightest article of virtue: pass once its limits, and you fall headlong into vice. Examine well the council that favours your desires.

The gratification of desire is, sometimes, the worst thing that can befal us.

IV.

TO be angry is to punish myself for the fault of another. A word dropt by chance, from your friend, offends your delicacy. Avoid a hasty reply; and beware of opening your discontent to the first person you meet. When you are cool, it will vanish, and leave no impression.

The most profitable revenge, the most rational, and the most pleasant, is to make it the interest of the injurious person, not to hurt you a second time.

It was a saying of Socrates, that we should eat and drink in order to live; instead of living, as many do, in order to eat and drink.

Be moderate in your pleasures, that your relish for them may continue.

Time is requisite to bring great objects to maturity. Precipitation ruins the best contrived plan; patience ripens the most difficult.

When we sum up the miseries of life, the grief bestowed on trifles 'makes a great part of the account; trifles which, neglected, are nothing. How shameful such a weakness.

The pensionary de Wit being asked, how he could transact such a variety of business without confusion, answered, that he never did but one thing at a time.

Guard your weak side from being known. If it be attacked, the best way is to join in the attack.

Francis I. consulting with his generals, how to lead his army over the Al, into Italy, Amerel, his fool sprung from a corner, and advised him to consult rather how to bring it back.

The best practical rule of morality is, never to do but what you are willing all the world should know.

Solicitude in hiding failings makes them appear the greater.