224 reading memorandums April ii. 



Another. 

 " A DEPUTATION of the London divines went to 

 Cromwell to complain that the cavalier clergy got 

 their congregations from them, and debauched the 

 faithful from their ministers. Have they so? said 

 the Protector ; I will take an order with them. And 

 he made a motion, as j/'he was going to say some- 

 thing to the captain of the guards, when turning 

 fliort, — but hold, said he, after what manner do the 

 cavaliers idebauch your people ? By preachings re- 

 ,plied the ministers. Then preach back again,. said 

 this able statesman ; and left them to their own re- 

 flections." 



READING MEMORANDUMS. 



Continued from p. 144. 

 • The deportment of most men in common life, and 

 of all men without education, is never marked with 

 any trait of politenefs or tinge of good breeding. 

 Discourse not in a whisper ; In company it is ill 

 breeding, and in some degree a fraud ; conversation 

 being a joint stock and common property. 



Resolve never to speak of a man's virtues before 

 his face ; nor of his faults behind his back. 



The man who has a pafsion for fiction, can never 

 obtain credit in any company. 



A man's first care, fhould be to avoid, the reproach- 

 es of his own heart. His next, to escape the cen- 

 sures of the world : 



To be continued. 



