J 816.} Cornucopig. 



None despise praise until they have which 

 •eased to be praiseworthy. 



Fame descends, scandal ascends. 



Reputation moves the qniclcer for 

 attack, but does not get so sleek ; and 

 looks the smeother for flattery, but does 

 aot march so long. 



Rules, like crutches, help the lame, 

 and hinder the strong. 



The lame man may thwart the runner. 



Envy repines at excellence, without 

 imitating it; and emulation imitates 

 without repining. 



When smitten listen. 



Boast of yourself, and something will 

 itick. 



Praise a book, as if yon were one day 

 to censure it ; and censure a book, as if 

 you were one day to praise it. 



Trust in toil. Go on without ceasing. 

 iio road is shut against perseverance. 



Do nothing in vain. 



Too much recreation tires, like too 

 much business. 



Innovation buries decadency, and be- 

 gets iniprovenient. 



Adopt the fittest phrase, whether bor- 

 rowed or invented. 



Aphorisms, like salt, sparkle in the 

 heap, but to be tasted should be sprin- 

 kled. 



THE "red cross" OF ENGLAND. 



In the time of the crnsadcs, the na- 

 tional standard of England was a White 

 Cross, and that of the French the " Ori- 

 fiame," a Red Cross ; this was lost at the 

 battleof Agincourt; and the Enghsh so- 

 vereigns, afterwards, pretending a right 

 to the kingdom of France, assumed the 

 Red Cross of France, Charles VII. 

 then dauphin, being made acquainted 

 with tliis fact, changed the ensigns of 

 his nation to a White Cross! and, the 

 more distinctly to mark that, he willed, 

 that, hereafter, to be considered as the 

 national colour ; he himself used an en- 

 sign entirely white, which he called a 

 cornette, and gave it as an ensign to tho 

 first company of gendarmerie that he 

 raised, and it has ever since borne the 

 name of la Cornette blanche. 



criticism should blush 



to ad« 



PINDAR. 



Pindar has been over-praised ; he may 

 dazzle by compound epithets, but he is 

 uot a maker of good odes. His poems 

 want itoiiesion, wholeness, drift. He 

 shoots his arrow, indeed, 



flisli a«i a human arm may hope 

 To hurl the glittering shaft of praise, 

 but never at the mark: the bow has 

 force, but the archer wants skill. To 

 pretend to aim at a given object, and al- 

 ways to urge the dart in a different di- 

 Mction, exhibits a cross-eyed clTort, 



Probably Pindar began his career as 

 a hymn-writer ; and having composed 

 and gotten by heart certain choral songs, 

 adapted for the usual solemnities of the 

 more popular temples, hn and his choir 

 were also invited to sing at the tri^ 

 umphal festivals of the wrestlers. The 

 victor might choose the hymn of his fa- 

 vourite god, and bespeak according to 

 his liking any one of Pindar's stock- 

 songs ; but there was no time to alter 

 the words, the tune, or the dance. The 

 ode must be performed without delay, 

 and could at most be new-capped with 

 an introductory line or two about the 

 patron of the feast. Chance preserves 

 to ns no matter which of those versatile 

 rhythmical superscriptions. Many cho- 

 russes of the Greek plays could easily 

 be accommodated to a boxer's dinner ; 

 and this was no doubt the usual resource 

 of the orchestra, which was hired for 

 the occasion. 



M. P. 



A foreigner, upon first coming into 

 this country, was much puzzled to knovr 

 the meaning of two letters frequently at- 

 tached to the names of certain gentle- 

 men ; ujjon looking into a dictionary he 

 found the following words, beginning 

 with the cabalistical letters, M and P. 



Miierable Praters. 



Merciless Peculators, 



Mute Placemen. 



Meagre Place-hwUi re. 



Mock Patriots. 



Mad Projectors. 



Mean Parasites. 



Monstrous Prodigals. 



Military Puppies. 



Mai'vellous Puffers. 



Methodistical Philanthropists, 



Moi%grcl Philosophers. 



Mercenary Pleaders. 



Ministerial Puppets, 



Mere Parrots. 



Measureless Prosers. 



Matchless Prevaricators, 



CREED OF SIR W. JONES. 



In the controversy which has arisen 

 between the author of the Life of Palcy 

 and tho bishop of St. David's, some 

 doubts arc started respecting the creed 

 of Sir William Jones. In the remarks 

 on the island of Hinznan (vol. i. p. 496) 

 he explains the epithet " Son of God" in 

 the Socinian maimer. In his letter to 

 Michaelis (vol. vii. p. 458), ho says, — 

 De fabnlis Hebreeorum nequc a te prar~ 

 tut dissentio, ncc tanien usqucquaque tihi 

 assentior. In his letter to AiKpictil, 

 (vol. iv. p. 592,) he calls Voltaire, ■ dlus- 

 T a tre 



