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Y^cmity’^ LooKmc2-©la^. 
An annual plant of the genus Campanula , allied to the hell-flower. 
Flattery. 
“Pernicious Flattery! thy malignant seeds, 
In an ill hour and by a fatal hand. 
Sadly diffused o’er virtue’s gleby land, 
With rising pride amidst the corn appear, 
And choke the hopes and harvest of the year.” 
— Prior. 
¥ HEEDLERS and sycophants, who insinuate their blandishments and 
hollow praises into the ears, and gain upon the hearts of those, after 
whose interest, money, and honors, they hanker, are to be numbered among 
that deceitful class of people of whom the prophet says, that they call good 
evil and evil good! 
This class of persons may not, it is true, speak ill of their neighbor, 
but they inflict on him the deepest wounds, causing him, by praising his 
vices, to continue enslaved to them to the end of his life. 
Of this species of flattery the most pernicious is that which proposes 
to itself for object the injury and ruin of others. 
Thus Saul, when, to procure the death of David, he sought to expose 
him to the ruthless sword of the Philistine, addressed him in these sooth¬ 
ing words: 
“Behold my eldest daughter, Merob; her will I give thee to wife; 
only be a valiant man, and fight the battles of the Lord.”* 
Such characters, my dear reader, we must ever be aware of and ban¬ 
ish from our society. Let us say with David: “ . . . The just man 
*1 Kings, xviii :17. 
