hand with the palm upwards,drawn gently towards the body. Hope brightens the countenance, arches the eye-brows, gives the eyes an eager wishful look, opens the mouth to half a smile, bends the body a little forward.

Love lights up a smile upon the countenance; the forehead is smoothed, the eye-brows arched, the mouth a little open and smiling, the eyes languishing, the countenance assumes an eager wishful look, mixed with an air of satisfaction. The accents are soft and winning, the tone of the voice flattering, &c.

⚫ Wonder opens the eyes, and makes them appear prominent. The body is fixed in a contracted stooping posture, the mouth is open, the hands often raised. Wonder at first strikes a person dumb,then breaks forth into exclamations.

Curiosity opens the eyes and mouth, lengthens the neck, bends the body forward, and fixes it in one posture, &c. → Anger is expressed by rapidity, interruption, noise and trepidation, the neck is stretched out, the head nodding in a threatening manner. The eyes red, staring, rolling, sparkling, the eye-brows drawn down over them; the forehead wrinkled, the nostrils stretched, every vein swelled, every muscle strained. When anger is violent, the mouth is opened, and drawn towards the ears, shewing the teeth in a gnashing posture; the feet stamping, the right hand thrown out, threatening with a clenched fist, and the whole frame agitated.

* Peevishness is expressed in nearly the same manner, but with more moderation; the eyes asquint upon the object of displeasure, the upper lip drawn up disdainfully.

Malice sets the jaws or gnashes with the teeth, sends flashes from the eyes, draws the mouth down toward the ears, clenches the fist and bends the elbows.

Envy is expressed in the same manner, but more moderately.

Aversion turns the face from the object, the hands spread out to keep it off.

Jealousy shews itself by restlessness, peevishness, tho'tfulness, anxiety, absence of mind. It is a mixture of a variety of passions, and assumes a variety of appearances. Contempt assumes a haughty air; the lips closed and pouting.

Modesty or humility bends the body forward, casts down the eyes. The voice is low, the words few, and tone of utterance submissive.

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following Lessons, there are many examples of antithesis, or opposition in the sense. For the benefit of the learner,some of these examples are distinguished by Italic Letters; and words so marked are emphatical. SELECT SENTENCES.

TEACHING.

СНАР. І.

NO be very active in laudable pursuits is the distin

Tguishing characteristic of a man of merit.

There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage. There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself has its stated limits, which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue.

It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand, than to revenge it afterwards.

It is much better to reprove, than to be angry secretly. No revenge is more heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Money, like manure, does no good till it is spread. There is no real use of riches, except in the distribution; the rest is all conceit.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly.

A contented mind and a good conscience, will make a man happy in all conditions. He knows not how to fear, who dares to die.

There is but one way of fortifying the soul against all gloomy presages and terrors of the mind; and that is, by securing to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who disposes of events and governs futurity. Philosophy is then only valuable, when it serves for the law of life, and not for the ostentation of science.

CHAP. II.

ITHOUT a friend the world is but a wilderness.

A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and not a friend amongst them all. If you have one friend, think yourself happy.

When once you profess yourself a friend, endeavor to be always such. He can never have any true friends whe is always changing them.

Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries trem. Nothing more engages the affections of men, than a handsome address and graceful conversation.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

Excess of ceremony shows want of breeding. That ⚫ivility is best, which excludes all superfluous formality. Ingratitude is a crime so shameful, that the man was neveryet found, who would acknowledge himself guilty of it. Few things are impossible to industry and skill. Diligence is never wholly lost.

There cannot be a greater treachery, than first to raise a confidence, and then deceive it.

By others' faults, wise men correct their own.

No man hath a thorough taste of prosperity, to whom adversity never happened.

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves that we leave them.

It is as great a point of wisdom to hide ignorance, as to discover knowledge.

Pitch upon that course of life which is the most excelBent and habit will render it most delightful.

CHAP. III.

USTOM is the plague of wise men, and the idol of

C fools.

As to be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. No man was ever cast down with the injuries of fortune, unless he had before suffered himself to be deceived by her favors.

Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.

None more impatiently suffer injuries, than those that are most forward in doing them.

By revenging an injury, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

A more glorious victory cannot be gained over another man than this, that when the injury began on his part, the kindness should begin on ours.

The prodigal robs his heir, the miser robs himself.

We should take a prudent care for the future, but so as to

enjoy the present. It is no part of wisdom to be miserable to-day, because we may happen to be more so to-morrow. To mourn without measure, is folly; not to mourn at all, insensibility.

Some would be thought to do great things, who are but tools and instruments; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ, when he only blew the bellows.

Though a man may become learned by another's learning, he never can be wise but by his own wisdom.

He who wants good sense is unhappy in having learning; he has thereby more ways of exposing himself.

It is ungenerous to give a man occasion to blush at his own ignorance in one thing, who perhaps may excel us in many. No object is more pleasing to the eye, than the sight of a man whom you have obliged; nor any music so agreeable to the ear, as the voice of one that owns you for his benefactor.

The coin that is most current amongst mankind is flattery; the only benefit of which is, that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed what we ought to be.

The character of the person who commends you, is to be considered before you set a value on his esteem. The wise man applauds him whom he thinks most virtuous, the rest of the world, him who is most wealthy.

The temperate man's pleasures are durable, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.

A good man will love himself too well to lose, and his neighbor too well to win, an estate by gaming. The love of gaming will corrupt the best principles in the world.

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CHAP- IV.

N angry man who suppresses his pasions, thinks worse than he speaks; and an angry man that will chide, speaks worse than he thinks..

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill, ‹ requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

It is to affectation the world owes its whole race of coxcombs. Nature, in her whole drama, never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of his own making.

It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every appearance, and dazzled with every thing that sparkles :

but great minds have but little admiration, because few things appear new to them.

It happens to men of learning as to ears of corn; they shoot up, and raise their heads high, while they are empty; but when full and swelled with grain, they begin to flag and droop.

He that is truly polite, knows how to contradict with respect, and to please without adulation; and is equally remote from an insipid complaisance, and a low familiarity.

The failings of good men are commonly more published in the world than their good deeds; and one fault of a deserving man will meet with more reproaches, than all his virtues, praise: Such is the force of ill will, and ill nature.

It is harder to avoid censure, than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age; but, to escape censure, a man must pass his whole life, without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

When Darius offered Alexander ten thousand talents to divide Asia equally with him, he answered: The earth cannot bear two Suns, nor Asia two Kings. Parmenio, a friend of Alexander's, hearing the great offers that Darius had made, said, Were I Alexander, I would accept them. So would I, replied Alexander, were I Parmenio.

An old age unsupported with matter for discourse and meditation, is much to be dreaded. No state can be more destitute than that of him, who, when the delights of sense forsake him, has no pleasures of the mind.

Such is the condition of life, that something is always wanted to happiness. In youth, we have warm hopes, which are soon blasted by rashness and negligence; and great designs, which are defeated by experience. In age, we have knowledge and prudence, without spirit to exert, or motives to prompt them. We are able to plan schemes and regulate measures, but have not time remaining to bring them to completion.

Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; Whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and ope trick needs a great many more to make it good.