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The headings of such passages as are not bracketed are the lamented Collector's ;-for the rest, (in the quaint Words of old FULLER, in his ABEL REDIVIVUS,) "my own meanness" is responsible. I had likewise, in preparing the sheets for the press, added a few notes on difficult and doubtful passages or expressions-but on consideration I crossed them out. One or two inadvertently remain, pp. 444. 515. 523. which may serve as a sample of others. The Index I have taken such pains with as I might.

The lines quoted on the fly leaf from Daniel, I have quoted in the new edition of THE DOCTOR, &c. in one volume;-but they seem, if possible, more to the purpose here. The purity of his English weighs with me, as it did with the lamented Southey.

JOHN WOOD WARTER.

VICARAGE, WEST TARRING, SUSSEX,

APRIL 10, 1849.

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Southey's Common-place Book.

CHOICE PASSAGES,

MORAL, RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL, POETICAL, AND

Toleration.

MISCELLANEOUS.

S to the thing itself," says JEREMY TAYLOR," the truth is, it is better in contemplation than practice: for reckon all that is got by it when you come to handle it, and it can never satisfy for the infinite disorders happening in the government, the scandal to religion, the secret dangers to public societies, the growth of heresy, the nursing up of parties to a grandeur so considerable as to be able in their own time to change the laws and the government. So that if the question be, whether mere opinions are to be prosecuted, it is certainly true they ought not. But if it be considered how by opinions men rifle the affairs of kingdoms, it is also as certain, they ought not to be made public and permitted."

Ill Religion.

"THAT is no good religion," says JEREMY TAYLOR, "whose principles destroy any duty of religion. He that shall maintain it to be lawful to make a war for the defence of his opinion, be it what it will, his doctrine is against godliness. Any thing that

is proud, any thing that is peevish and scornful, any thing that is uncharitable, is against the vyaiveoa didaσkaλía, that form of sound doctrine which the Apostle speaks of."

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Faith and Opinion.

FAITH," says thePublic Friend,' SAMUEL FOTHERGILL," overcomes the World: Opinion is overcome by the World. Faith is triumphant in its power and in its effects; it is of divine tendency to renew the heart, and to produce those fruits of purity and holiness which demonstrate the dignity of its original: Opinion has filled the world, enlarged the field of speculation, and been the cause of producing fruits directly opposite to the nature of faith. Opinion has terminated in schism: Faith is productive of unity."

Quaker Dress.

SAMUEL FOTHERGILL says to a young man who had laid aside the dress of the Society, and with it some of the moral restrictions which it imposed, "If thou hadst appeared like a religious, sober Friend, those companions who have exceedingly wounded thee, durst not have attempted to frequent

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thy company.
If thou hadst no other in-
ducement to alter thy dress, I beseech thee
to do it to keep the distinction our prin-
ciples lead to, and to separate thee from
fools and fops. At the same time that by
a prudent distinction in appearance thou
scatterest away those that are the bane of
youth, thou wilt engage the attention of
those whose company will be profitable
and honourable to thee."

| capacity: and as the law was to the Jews, so was philosophy to the Gentiles, a schoolmaster to bring them to Christ, to teach them the rudiments of happiness, and the first and lowest things of reason; that when Christ was come all mankind might become perfect,—that is, be made regular in their appetites, wise in their understandings, assisted in their duties, directed to, and instructed in, their great ends. And this is that which the Apostle calls 'being perfect men in Christ Jesus;' perfect in all the intendments of nature, and in all the designs "LA vraie philosophie respecte les formes of God. And this was brought to pass by autant que l'orgueil les dédaigne. Il faut discovering, and restoring, and improving une discipline pour la conduite, comme il the law of Nature, and by turning it all into faut un ordre pour les idées. Nier l'uti-religion."-JEREMY TAYLOR, Preface to the lité des rits et des pratiques religieuses en Life of Christ. matière de morale, ce serait nier l'empire des notions sensibles sur des êtres qui ne sont pas de purs esprits; ce serait nier la force de l'habitude."-PORTALIS. (Louis Goldsmith-Recueil, tom. 1, p. 277.)

Forms.

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Law.

THE Jesuit P. RICHEOME says of the law, that "entre toutes les parties de ceste faculté la preud-hommie et bonne conscience est la plus rare, et la plus requise à les Advocats renouvellent tous les ans leur un advocat Chrestien. C'est pour elle que serment à la Saint Martin, ceremonie qui monstre que c'est la qualité la plus necessaire de toutes au jugement des bons juges.” -Plainte Apologetique, p. 69.

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Ir was well said by the Scotch Jesuit, The Two Gates of Heaven. WILLIAM CRITTON (Crichton?) “Deum ma“DIEU a mis sur la terre deux portes qui gis amare adverbia quam nomina: quia in mènent au ciel: il les a placées aux deux additionibus (actionibus?) magis ei plucent extrémités de la vie; l'une à l'entrée, l'au- BENE et LEGITIME quam bonum et legititre à la sortie. La première est celle de Ita ut nullum bonum liceat facere l'innocence, la dernière est celle du répen- nisi BENE et LEGITIME fieri possit.” tir."- SAINT-PIERRE.- Harmonies de la Nature, tom. 3, p. 150.

Christianity.

"FOR Certain it is, Christianity is nothing else but the most perfect design that ever was, to make a man be happy in his whole

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Hume's Opinion of the Stability of American
Dependence.

HUME says, speaking of our first plantations in America, "Speculative reasoners during that age, raised many objections to the planting of those remote colonies,

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New Opinions, how treated in Macaria. THE Traveller in the old Dialogue, who gives an account of the "famous kingdom of Macaria," says, "they have such rules, that they need no considerable study to accomplish all knowledge fit for divines, by reason that there is no diversity of opinions amongst them." Upon which the Scholar with whom he is conversing asks,

"How can that be ?"

“Trav. Very easily: for they have a law, that if any divine shall publish a new opinion to the common people, he shall be accounted a disturber of the public peace, and

shall suffer death for it.

"Schol. But that is the way to keep them in error perpetually, if they be once in it. "Trav. You are deceived: for, if any one hath conceived a new opinion, he is allowed every year freely to dispute it before the great Council. If he overcome his adversaries, or such as are appointed to be opponents, then it is generally received for truth; if it be overcome, then it is declared to be false."-Harleian Miscellany (8vo. edit.) vol. 6, p. 383.

Trades.

In the "famous kingdom of Macaria," "there are established laws, so that there are not too many tradesmen, nor too few, by enjoining longer or shorter times of apprenticeship."-Harleian Miscellany (8vo. edit.)

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Periodical Emigrations.

THE speculative politician who at the meeting of the Long Parliament recommended for their adoption the laws of his ideal kingdom of Macaria, as a panacea for the disturbances of the state, mentions Plantations, that every year a certain numa law for New among other institutions, " ber shall be sent out, strongly fortified, and provided for at the public charge, till such time as they may subsist by their own endeavours. And this number is set down by the Council for New Plantations, wherein they take diligent notice of the surplusage of people that may be spared."-Harleian Miscellany (8vo. edit.) vol. 6, p. 382.

Abolition of Offices and Privileges.

"HE that thinks the King gives away nothing that is worth the keeping, when he suffers an office, which keeps and maintains many officers to be abolished, and taken away, does not consider that so much of his train is abated; and that he is less spoken of, and consequently less esteemed in those places where that power formerly extended: nor observes how private men value themselves upon those lesser franchises and royalties, which especially keep up the power, distinction, and degrees of men."-CLARENDON, vol. 1, p. 444.

Difference between Craft and Wisdom.

SPEAKING of the Parliamentary Leaders in Charles I.'s time, HOBBES says, "If craft be wisdom, they were wise enough: but wise, as I define it, is he that knows how to bring his business to pass (without the assistance of knavery and ignoble shifts) by the sole strength of his good contrivance. A fool may win from a better gamester by the advantage of false dice, and packing of cards."-Behemoth.

Aristocracy of Trade. Proneness of Trades

men to Disaffection.

"GREAT capital Cities when rebellion is upon pretence of grievances, must needs be of the rebel party, because the grievances are but taxes, to which citizens, that is, merchants, whose profession is their private gain, are naturally mortal enemies; their only glory being to grow excessively rich by buying and selling.

"B. But they are said to be of all callings the most beneficial to the Commonwealth, by setting the poorer sort of people to work. "A. That is to say, by making poor people sell their labour to them at their own prices. So that poor people, for the most part, might get a better living by working in Bridewell, than by spinning, weaving, and other such labour as they can do; saving that by working slightly they may help themselves a little, to the disgrace of our manufacture. And as most commonly they are the first encouragers of rebellion presuming of their strength, so also are they for the most part, the first to repent, deceived by them that command their strength."-HOBBES, Behe

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Leagues and Covenants.

"SOLEMN Leagues and Covenants," says CHARLES I." are the common road used in all factions and powerful perturbations of State or Church: where formalities of extraordinary zeal and piety are never more studied and elaborate, than when Politicians most agitate desperate designs against all that is settled or sacred in religion and laws; which by such screws are cunningly, yet forcibly, wrested by secret steps and less sensible degrees from their known rule and wonted practice, to comply with the humours of those men, who aim to subdue all to their own will and power under the disguises of holy Combinations. Which cords and withes will hold men's consciences no longer than Force attends and twists them: for every man soon grows his own Pope, and

easily absolves himself of those ties, which, not the commands of God's word, or the Laws of the Land, but only the subtlety and terror of a Party casts upon him; either superfluous and vain, when they were sufficiently tyed before; or fraudulent and injurious, if by such after ligaments they find the imposers really aiming to dissolve or suspend their former just and necessary obligations."-Eikov Baotλiký, p. 106.

Church Dignities.

"FOR those secular additaments and ornaments of authority, civil honour and estate, which my predecessors, and Christian Princes in all countries have annexed to Bishops and Churchmen, I look upon them but as just rewards of their learning and piety who are fit to be in any degree of Church Government: also enablements to works of charity and hospitality, meet strengthenings of their authority in point of respect and observance, which in peaceful times is hardly payed to any Governors by the measure of their virtues so much as by that of their estates; poverty and meanness exposing them and their authority to the contempt of licentious minds and manners, which persecuting times much restrained.

"I would have such men Bishops as are most worthy of those encouragements, and best able to use them. If at any time my judgement of men failed, my good intention made my error venial: and some Bishops I am sure I had, whose learning, gravity and piety, no men of any worth or forehead can deny. But of all men, I would have Churchmen, especially the Governors, to be redeemed from that vulgar neglect, which (besides an innate principle of vicious opposition, which is in all men against those that seem to reprove or restrain them) will necessarily follow both the Presbyterian Party, which makes all ministers equal, and the Independent Inferiority, which sets their Pastors below the People.”—Εἰκὼν Βασιλwý, p. 149.

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