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QUOTATIONS.-A merry heart maketh a cheerful counProv. xv. 13.

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A merry heart doeth good like a medicine, but a broken spirit drieth the bones.-Prov. xvii. 22.

He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.Prov. xv. 15.

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The heart of a man changeth his countenance, whether it be for good or evil : . . A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity.-Eccles. xiii. 25, 26. Why should a man creep into the jaundice By being peevish.-Shakspeare.

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Mirth of heart will bestow a more excellent grace, Than perfection of features, or beauty of face. A sorrowing bairn was never sleek.-Scotch proverb. The face reflects the mind.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the heart, which is reflected in the face.-Serj. Palmer's aphorisms and maxims.

When thou with rebukes dost chasten man for sin, thou makest his beauty to consume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment.-Ps. xxxix. 2. P. B. version.

Mine eye is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.-Job, xvii. 7.

They are become great and waxen rich; they are waxen fat, they shine.-Jer. v. 28.

Vitiant artus ægræ contagia mentis.

Heu! quam difficile est crimen non prodere vultu !

CONCLUSION.

Ovid.

THEME LXXXV. Slander always leaves a Slur.

INTRODUCTION.

1ST REASON. There is generally some foundation of truth in every calumny.

2ND REASON.-There is so much malice and malignity in the human heart, that it retains the savour of a calumny, as a cask retains the savour of a liquor it has once received.

3RD REASON. Few persons have the means, even if they have the desire, of searching into the truth of public rumours: Every one is obliged to take many things on trust, and to act accordingly.

4TH REASON.-Many are too glad to believe and report evil of others, in order to flatter their own vanity and selfrighteousness.

5TH REASON.-There is so much gossip and tattle, so many busy-bodies and news-venders, that a slander is rarely allowed to die or sleep.

6TH REASON.-There is so much just cause of suspicion even against the most exemplary, that no degree of calumny is beyond the pale of probability. After we know a Judas betrayed, and a Peter denied, his Master, who can say "my mountain standeth sure ?"

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QUOTATIONS.-A backbiting tongue hath disquieted many, and driven them from nation to nation.-Eccles. xxviii. 14.

Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but not so many as have fallen by the edge of the tongue.-Eccles. xxviii. 18.

There is no smoke without some fire.

Give a dog an ill name and hang him.

Dirt shows most upon clean linen.-Fielding's proverbs. Throw plenty of dirt and some will stick.

He mixes truth with falsehood, and has not forgotten the rule of calumniating strongly, that some may remain. -Dryden.

Slander lives upon succession,

For ever housed where it once gets possession.
Shakspeare.

I see the jewel, best enamelled,

Will lose its beauty; and though gold 'bides still That others touch, yet often touching will Wear gold and so, no man that hath a name But falsehood and corruption doth it shame. Shakspeare. One is not so soon healed as hurt.-Fielding's proverbs. A false accusation is worse than death.-Eccles. xxvi. 5. There is no sufficient court of judicature against the venom of slander; for, though you punish the author, yet you cannot wipe off the calumny.-Serj. Palmer's apho

risms and maxims.

Slanders are like fleas, a pitiful, sneaking sort of vermin, which bite in the dark, and always leave a sore behind. Serj. Palmer's aphorisms and maxims.

Slander is like a slug, which leaves a trail on every thing it touches.

If you want to whip a dog, it is enough to say he eat up the frying-pan.-Fielding's proverbs.

He that hath an ill name is half hanged.-Fielding's proverbs.

A blow from a frying pan, though it does not hurt, sullies.-Spanish proverb.

Slander always leaves a sore behind it. - Ray's proverbs.

Emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.-Horace.

A maledicentia temperato.-Ad Herenn.

Obtrectatio plerosque lacerat.

Calumniare fortiter aliquid adhærebit.

Non est fumus absque igne.

Emmisso in nos jaculo, fugiturum te credis ?-Erasmus. Væ miser! Dente Theonino qui circumroditur. Erasmi adagia.

Morsus aspidis immedicabilis est.-Erasmi adagia.
CONCLUSION.

THEME LXXXVI. By others' Faults wise Men correct their own.

INTRODUCTION.

1ST REASON. Because they are wise enough to see the folly of them in others.

2ND REASON. They have sufficient self-knowledge not to be blind to similar faults in themselves.

3RD REASON.-They see the disgrace which others suffer, and are wise enough to associate disgrace to sin as cause and effect.

4TH REASON. They believe that similar faults in themselves will bring similar shame; and that they will be judged as others are.

5TH REASON. A wise man can learn by example, a foolish man can be taught only by experience.

6TH REASON. They are not so foolish as to believe their superior sanctity, wisdom, character, or wealth, will sanctify the same fault in themselves, which is condemned in others.

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QUOTATIONS. All these things happened unto them for ensamples; and they are written for our admonition. -1 Cor. x. 11.

Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning.—Rom. xv. 4.

These things were our example, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted, &c.1 Cor. x. 6.

Be sure your sin will find you out.-Numb. xxxii. 23. Wise men learn by others' harm, fools by their own.— Fielding's proverbs.

Learn wisdom by the folly of others.—Italian proverb. Let another's shipwreck be your sea-mark.

Learn by the vices of others how detestable your own are.-Maunder's proverbs.

Errors of predecessors are landmarks to posterity.Maunder's proverbs.

By marking the bias of others we may learn to correct our own.-Maunder's proverbs.

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One man's fault is another man's lesson.-Ray's proverbs.

Bonum est fugienda aspicere in alieno malo.

Aliena optimum frui insania.

Scitum est periculum ex aliis facere tibi quod ex usu siet. -Terence.

Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum.

Proprium est Stultitiæ aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.-Cicero.

Quod oderis in alteri ne feceris.

CONCLUSION.

THEME LXXXVII. He that hath pity on the Poor lendeth to the Lord.

INTRODUCTION.....

1ST REASON. Because the poor are God's children; And he that honoureth the child honoureth the Father also.

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