On the English Nation, from Zimmerman,......... Verses on the deliverance of Grotius, from Barlæus, Beneficence, from M. De Saint-Pierre,...... POETRY. Verses supposed to have been written by a person confined in the Inquisition,.. in illustration of the medal of the Royal Hu- Practical knowledge of men and things,..... concluded, ... 241 Account of the migration of swallows,.... Remarks on a statement in the Ladies' Diary,.. The germination of a potatoe,..... Effects of paring and burning the soil,...... The two grand faculties of the human mind,......... 105 The petrifaction of the bones of animals,..... How are these words to be parsed, "The Lord-he On Oxygen as the acidifying principle.. The globular form of a drop of rain.. The expansion of water by frost,....... The effects of the sun's rays passing through glass, Which of the human passions is the strongest?.. The style of Addison and Johnson, Is the sun a great globe of Fire?.. On the first person singular of the Imperative mood, 253 The reason of the occasional apparently-increased magnitude of the discs of the sun and moon, 252 The priority of theory to practice in the art of The quality and effects of Publicans' Beer,......... 256 MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS. Answers to Questions for Youth,..... 43, 115, 183, 259 Solutions to Mathematical Questions,...49, 121, 191, 265 THE LEEDS CORRESPONDENT, A Literary, Mathematical and Philosophical Miscellany. Tarda fluunt ingrataque tempora, quæ spem HORAT. No. I. JANUARY, 1816 VOL. II. Themes and translations are respectfully requested of those, among our junior correspondents, who have not attained to sixteen years of age. JUVENILE DEPARTMENT. THEME. On true Glory. ON THE CRIMINALITY AND BANEFUL LYING is a vice, which either considered in its own nature, or in the effects it produces, is detestable, and destructive in the extreme. It has been represented by men of all ages, eminent for integrity, wisdom, and virtue, in all its diversified parts, and various tendencies, as an evil which should carefully be shunned, and studiously hated, by all who submit to the exercise of reason. For, of all others, it is a vice which is productive of the most serious antl fatal consequences; acting on the mind, in a manner similar to a poison on the body, and expelling from it the sacred principles of truth and reason, which are implanted in the breast of every man, and by which he is enabled to discern what is truth and what is error. Insolence, sophistry, vanity, obstinacy, and a train of diabolical and destructive passions, are its companions, which universally tend to destroy the credit, happiness, and peace of those who yield to it in place of "heav'n-born Truth." But not alone to the individuals who basely and unfortunately practise this vice, are its effects mischievous: its malignant influences attack and destroy the bands. of social confidence and affection; interrupt the security of life; weaken the credit of intelligence; and, in short, are productive of the most direful consequences imaginable to society in general. It was well observed by Epænetus that "liars are the authors of every species of wickedness and injury in the world." Parasites, calumniators, unfaithful counsellors, and wicked instructors of youth, are accounted by him the most notable proficients in this infernal science. Forgery, bribery, truce-breaking, flattery, party exaggerations, malevolent aspersions, false accusations, and a number of other hateful vices, which are continually harrassing the world, may be traced to their source and foundation in the abominable and heinous vice of lying. A principle, then, which is productive of such lamentable consequences; exterminating from the mind all that is good, and diffusing all that is evil, must necessarily be highly criminal and reprehensible, by the laws of Him who is truth itself, and "in whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." He has imparted to man the faculty of speech, not for the purpose of deceiving and by smooth words destroying his brother; but that "every man might speak truth with his neighbour." So diabolical is lying, that the devil is represented as a liar and the father of lying." This vice to be one of the habitudes of his mind, a constituent part of his nature, since "when he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own." Man is said, by the highest authority in the world, to be earthly, sensual, appears 66 |
