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To the happiness of possessing a person of such uncommon merit, Boethius soon had the satisfaction of obtaining the highest honour his country could bestow.

CHAP. II.

Containing instances of false Syntax, promiscuously

disposed.

SECT. I.

Key, p. 69.

THOUGH great has been his disobedience and his folly, yet if he sincerely acknowledges his misconduct, he will be forgiven.

On these causes depend all the happiness or misery, which exist among men.

The property of James, I mean his books and furniture, were wholly destroyed.

This prodigy of learning, this scholar, critic, and antiquarian, were entirely destitute of breeding and civility.

That writer has given an account of the manner, in which Christianity has formerly been propagated among the heathens.

We adore the Divine Being, he who is from eternity to eternity.

Thou, Lord, who hath permitted affliction to come upon us, shall deliver us from it, in due time. In this place, there were not only security, but an abundance of provisions.

By these attainments are the master honoured, and the scholars encouraged.

The sea appeared to be more than usually agitated. Not one in fifty of those who call themselves deists, understand the nature of the religion they reject.

Virtue and mutual confidence is the soul of

friendship. Where these are wanting, disgust or hatred often follow little differences.

Time and chance happeneth to all men; but every person do not consider who govern those powerful

causes.

The active mind of man never or seldom rests satisfied with their present condition, howsoever prosperous.

Habits must be acquired of temperance and of self-denial, that we may be able to resist pleasure, and to endure pain, when either of them interfere with our duty.

The error of resting wholly on faith, or on works, is one of those seductions which most easily misleads men; under the semblance, of piety, on the one hand, and of virtue on the other hand.

It was no exaggerated tale; for she was really in that sad condition that her friend represented her. An army present a painful sight to a feeling mind. The enemies who we have most to fear, are those of our own hearts.

Thou art the Messiah, the Son of God, who was to come into the world, and hast been so long promised and desired.

Thomas disposition is better than his brothers; and he appears to be the happiest man: but some degree of trouble is all mens portion.

Though remorse sleep sometimes during prosperity, it will awake surely in adversity.

It is an invariable law to our present condition, that every pleasure that are pursued to excess, convert themselves into poison.

If a man brings into the solitary retreat of age, a vacant, an unimproved mind, where no knowledge dawns, no ideas rise, which within itself has nothing to feed upon, many a heavy and many a comfortless day he must necessarily pass.

I cannot yield to such dishonourable conduct,

neither at the present moment of difficulty, nor, I trust, under no circumstance whatever.

Themistocles concealed the enterprises of Pausanias, either thinking it base to betray the secrets trusted to his confidence, or imagined it impossible for such dangerous and ill concerted schemes to take effect.

Pericles gained such an ascendant over the minds of the Athenians, that he might be said to attain a monarchical power in Athens.

Christ did applaud the liberality of the poor widow, who he had seen casting her two mites in the treasury.

A multiplicity of little kind offices, in persons frequently conversant with each other, is the bands of society and of friendship.

To do good to them that hate us, and, on no occasion, to seek revenge, is the duty of a Christian. If a man profess a regard for the duties of religion, and neglect that of morality, that man's religion is vain.

Affluence might give us respect, in the eyes of the vulgar, but will not recommend us to the wise and good.

The polite, accomplished libertine, is but miserable amidst all his pleasures: the rude inhabitant of Lapland is happier than him.

The cheerful and the gay, when warmed by pleasure and by mirth, lose that sobriety and that selfdenial, which is essential to the support of virtue.

SECT. II.

Key, p. 72.

THERE were, in the metropolis, much to amuse them, as well as many things to excite disgust.

How much is real virtue and merit exposed to suffer the hardships of a stormy life?

This is one of the duties which requires peculiar circumspection.

More complete happiness than that I have described, seldom falls to the lot of mortals.

There are principles in man, which ever have, and ever will incline him to offend.

Whence have there arose such a great variety of opinions and tenets in religion?

Its stature is less than that of a man; but its strength and agility much greater.

They that honour me, them will I honour.

He summonses me to attend, and I must summons the others.

Then did the officer lay hold of him, and executed him immediately.

Who is that person whom I saw you introduce, and present him to the duke?

I offer observations that a long and chequered pilgrimage have enabled me to make on man.

Every church and sect of people have a set of opinions peculiar to themselves.

May thou as well as me, be meek, patient, and forgiving.

These men were under high obligations to have adhered to their friend in every situation of life.

After I visited Europe, I returned to America.

Their example, their influence, their fortune, every talent they possess, dispenses blessings on all around them.

When a string of such sentences succeed one another, the effect is disagreeable.

I have lately been in Gibraltar, and have seen the commander in chief.

Propriety of pronunciation, is the giving to every word the sound which the politest usage of the language appropriates to it.

The book is printed very neat, and on a fine wove paper.

The fables of the ancients are many of them highly instructive.

He resembles one of those solitary animals, that has been forced from its forest, to gratify human curiosity.

There is not, not ought not to be, such a thing as constructive treason.

He is a new created, knight, and his dignity sits awkward on him.

Hatred or revenge are things deserving of censure, wherever they are found to exist.

If you please to employ your thoughts on that subject, you would easily conceive our miserable condition.

His speech contains one of the grossest and infamousest calumnies which ever was uttered.

A too great variety of studies dissipate and weaken the mind.

Those two authors have each of them their merit. James was resolved to not indulge himself in such a cruel amusement.

The not attending to this rule, is the source of a very common error.

Calumny and detraction are sparks, which if you do not blow, they will go out of themselves.

Clelia is a vain woman, whom if we do not flatter, she will be disgusted.

That celebrated work was nearly ten years published, before its importance was at all understood. Ambition is so insatiable that it will make any sacrifices to attain its objects.

A great mass of rocks thrown together by the hand of nature, with wildness and confusion, strike the mind with more grandeur, than if they were adjusted to one another with the accuratest symmetry.

SECT. III.

Key, p. 74.

He showed a spirit of forgiveness, and a magnanimity, that does honour to human nature.

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