CHAP. III.] EXAMPLES OF ANTITHETA. 261 



tende-l cleanness, and ths daughter They who, with Pari?, make 



oi pride, placed among the virtues? beauty their wish, lose, as he did, 



In amours, as in wild fowl, there wisdom and power, 

 is property ; but the right is trans- Alexander lell upon no popular 



ferred with possession. truth when he said that sleep and 



lust were the earnest ot death. 



For. WATCHFULNESS. Against. 



More dangers deceive by fraud He bids danger advance, who 



than force. buckles against it. 



It is easier to prevent a danger Even the remedies of dangers 



than to watch its approach. are dangerous. 



Danger is no longer light if it It is better to use a few approved 



once seem light. remedies than to venture upon 



n::iny unexperienced particulars. 



Fur. WIFE AND CHILDREN. Arjairst. 



Charity to the commonwealth He who hath wife and children 



begins with private families. hath given hostages to fortune. 



Wife and children are a kind of Generation and issue are human 



discipline, but unmarried men are acts, but creation and its works 



morose and cruel. are divine. 



A single life and a childless state Issue is the eternity of brutes ; 



fii men for nothing but flight. but fame, merit, and institutions 



He sacrifices to death who begets the eternity of men. 



no children. Private regards generally pre- 



The happy in other respects are vail over public, 



commonly unfortunate in their Some affect the fortuneof Priam, 



children, lest the human state in surviving his ia,mily. 

 should too nearly approach the 

 divine. 



For. YOUTH. Against. 



The first thoughts and counsels Youth is the field of repent- 



of youth have somewhat divine. ance. 



Old men are wise for themselves, Youth naturally despises the 



but less for others and the public authority of age, that every one 



good. may grow wise at his peril. 



If it were visible, old age de- The counsels whereat time did 



forms the mind more than the not assist are not ratified by him. 



body. Old men commute Venus for the 



Old men fear all things but the graces.&quot;* 

 gods. 



The examples of antithets here laid down may not, per 

 haps, deserve the place assigned them ; but as they we -* 

 collected in my youth, and are really seeds, not flowers, I was 

 unwilling they should be lost. In this they plainly show a 



Understand propriety and decorum. 



