CHAP. III.] 



EXAMPLES OP ANTITHETA. 



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tended cleanness, nnd lira daughter 

 of pride, placed anion jj the virtues? 

 In amours, as in wild fowl, there 

 is property ; but the right is trans- 

 fer. ed with possession. 



lliey who, with Pari?, make 

 beauty their wish, lose, as he did, 

 wisdom and power. 



Alexander iell upon no popular 

 truth when he said that sleep and 

 lust were the earnest oi death. 



For. 



WATCHFULNESS. 



Ar/a'.nst. 



More dangers deceive by fraud 

 than force. 



It is easier to prevent a danger 

 than to watch its approach. 



Danger is no longer light if it 

 once seem light. 



He bids danger advance, who 

 buckles against it. 



Even the remedies of dangers 

 are dangerous. 



It is better to use a few approved 

 remedies than to venture upon 

 niuny unexperienced particulars. 



I'ur. 



Charity to the commonwealth 

 begins with private families. 



Wife and children are a kind of 

 discipline, but unmarried men are 

 morose and cruel. 



A single life and a childless state 

 fiC men for nothing but flight. 



He sacrifices to death who begets 

 no children. 



The happy in other respects are 

 commonly unfortunate in their 

 children, lest the human state 

 should too nearly approach the 

 divine. 



WIFE AND CHILDREN. Against. 



He who hath wife and children 

 hath given hostages to fortune. 



Generation and issue are human 

 acts, but creation and its works 

 are divine. 



Issue is the eternity of brutes ; 

 but fame, merit, and institutions 

 the eternity of men. 



Private regards generally pre- 

 vail over public. 



Some affect the fortune of Priam, 

 in surviving his lamily. 



For. YOUTH. Agxinst. 



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



of youth have somewhat divine. 



Old men are wise fx)r themselves, 

 but less for others and the public 

 good. 



If it were visible, old age de- 

 forms the mind more than the 

 body. 



Old men fear all things but the 

 gods. 



ance. 



Youth naturally despises the 

 authority of age, that every one 

 may grow wise at his peril. 



The counsels whereat time did 

 not assist are not ratified by him. 



Old men commute Venus for the 

 graces.** 



The examples of antithets here laid down may not, per- 

 haps, deserve the place assigned them ; but as they werpt 

 collected in my youth, and are really seeds, not flowers, I wa^s 

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



* Understand propriety and decorum. 



