FAITH.

FAITH-The Strength of.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.
Job.

FAITH-Supremacy of.

All faiths are to their own believers just;
For none believe because they will, but must:
Faith is a force from which there's no defence,
Because the reason it does first convince;
And reason conscience into fetters brings,
And conscience is without the power of kings.
Dryden.

FAITH-in Divine Things.

In philosophy, where truth seems doublyfaced, there is no man more paradoxical than myself; but in divinity I love to keep the road; and though not in an implicit, yet an humble faith, follow the great wheel of the church, by which I move, not reserving any proper poles or motions from the epicycle of my own brain; by these means I leave no gap for heresy, schisms, or errors.

Sir Thomas Brown. FAITH-in the Time of Trouble.

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; ret I will rejoice in the Lord; I will joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk.

FAITH-without Works.

Works without faith, are like a fish without water; it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid. Feltham.

FAITH-Want of.

When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other, will be much disappointed. The primitive sincerity will accompany the primitive piety in her flight from the earth, and then interest will succeed conscience in the regulation of human conduct, till one man cannot trust another further than he holds him by that tie: hence, by the way, it is, that although many are infidels themselves, yet few choose to have their families and dependents such; as judging FALSEHOOD-Culpability of. -and rightly judging-that true Christians are the only persons to be depended on for the exact discharge of their social duties. Bishop Horne. FAITH-the Root of Good Works. Faith is the root of all good works. A root that produces nothing is dead. Bishop Wilson.

What trust is here, O man!
Hath Hope been smitten in its early dawn?
Have clouds o'ercast thy purpose, trust, or
plan?

Have faith, and struggle on!

Southey.

FAITH and WORKS.
Therefore love and believe; for works will
follow spontaneous,

Even as the day does the sun: the right from
the good is an offspring,

Love in a bodily shape; and Christian works

are no more than Animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate spring-tide. Longfellow.

A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere, when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me. Carlyle. FALSEHOOD-Illimitable in its Effects.

Every lie, great or small, is the brink of a precipice, the depth of which nothing but Omniscience can fathom. Reade.

FALSEHOOD-Mischiefs of.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth; and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not

unknown,

FAME,

Think'st thou, perchance, that they remain FAME-Over-care for.

Whom thou know'st not?

It is a very indiscreet and troublesome ambition which cares so much about fame; about By angel-trumps in heaven their praise is what the world says of us; to be always blown ;

Divine their lot.

looking in the faces of others for approval; to be always anxious about the effect of what we do or say; to be always shouting, to hear the Longfellow.

echoes of our own voices.

What shall I do to gain eternal life?—

Discharge aright

The simple dues with which each day is rife ;
Yea, with thy might.

Ere perfect scheme of action thou devise,
Will life be filed;

FAME.

Shakspeare.

FAME-Possessors of.

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving; others, though deserving, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts. Milton.

FAME-Posthumous.

Fame to our ashes comes, alas! too late:
And praise smells rank upon the coffin plate.
Martial.

FAME-Animating Power of.

O! who shall lightly say, that Fame
Is nothing but an empty name!
Whilst in that sound there is a charm
The nerves to brace, the heart to warm;
As, thinking of the mighty dead,

The young from slothful couch will start,
And vow, with lifted hands outspread,
Like them to act a noble part?
O! who shall lightly say that Fame
Is nothing but an empty name!
When, but for those, our mighty dead,

All ages past a blank would be,
Sunk in oblivion's murky bed,

A desert bare, a shipless sea?
They are the distant objects seen,-
The lofty marks of what hath been.
O! who shall lightly say that Fame
Is nothing but an empty name!
When memory of the mighty dead
To earth-worn pilgrim's wistful eye
The brightest rays of cheering shed,

That point to immortality? Joanna Baillie.

FAME-Way to Silence.

Fame may be compared to a scold; the best way to silence her is to let her alone, and she will at last be out of breath in blowing her own trumpet. Fuller.

FAME-A Niche in the Temple of.

In Fame's temple there is always a niche to be found for rich dunces, importunate scoundrels, or successful butchers of the human Zimmerman.

race.

FAME-Transiency of.

Fame, if not double-faced, is double-mouth'd,
And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds;

FAME.

On both his wings, one black, the other white,
Bears greatest names in his wild airy flight.

Milton.

That I have lived, I leave a mark behind
Shall pluck the shining age from vulgar time,
And give it whole to late posterity. Young.

FAME-Waywardness of.

Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy
To those who woo her with two slavish knees,
But makes surrender to some thoughtless boy,
And dotes the more upon a heart at ease;
She is a Gipsy,-will not speak to those

Who have not learnt to be content without
her;

A Jilt, whose ear was never whispered close,
Who thinks they scandal her who talk

Some when they die, die all: their mould'ring clay

Is but an emblem of their memories:

The space quite closes up through which they bottom, whose interests are inseparably united,

pass'd.

and, therefore, whose hearts ought to be so too, acting in concert, adopting each other's cares, and making them their own, uniting their friendly beams, and jointly promoting the common happiness, is a beautiful scene, and amiable even in the sight of that Being who maketh men to be of one mind in a house. To have those who will receive us with an operhearted cheerfulness, to whom we can discharge the fulness of the soul, to whom we can unburden our cares; and by unburdening we lessen them; (for sorrow, like a stream, grows weaker, by being divided into several channels :) to have those, with whom we can share our joys; (and joy, like light, by communicating grows greater, and burns brighter;) this is a happiness, which a forlorn individual must be in a great measure a stranger to, who stands single in life, without any support to lean upon. Seed.

about her;

A very Gipsy is she, Nilus-born,

Sister-in-law to jealous Potiphar;
Ye love-sick Bards! repay her scorn for scorn;
Ye artists love-lorn! madmen that ye are !
Make your best bow to her and bid adieu,
Then, if she likes it, she will follow you.

Keats.

FAMILIES-Decline of.

The most lasting families have only their seasons, more or less, of a certain constitutional strength. They have their Spring and Summer sunshine glare, their wane, decline, and death; they flourish and shine, perhaps, for ages; at last they sicken: their light grows pale, and, at a crisis when the offsets are withered, and the old stock is blasted, the whole tribe disappears. There are limits ordained to everything under the sun. Man will not abide in honour. Of all human vani

ties, family-pride is one of the weakest. Reader, go thy way; secure thy name in the Book of Life, where the page fades not, nor the title alters nor expires-leave the rest to heralds and the parish register. Borlase.

FANATICISM.

FAMILIES-Ties of.

The ties of family and of country were never intended to circumscribe the soul. Man is connected at birth with a few beings, that the spirit of humanity may be called forth by their tenderness; and, whenever domestic or national attachments become exclusive, engrossing, clannish, so as to shut out the general claims of the human race, the highest end of Providence is frustrated, and home, instead of

being the nursery, becomes the grave of the
heart.
W. Ellery Channing.

FAMILY-A Well-regulated.

To see a well-regulated family acting as if they were one body informed by one soul; to see those who are embarked together in one

FAN-Sentimentality of a.

There is an infinite variety of motions to be made use of in the flutter of a fan. There is the angry flutter, the modest flutter, the timorous flutter, the confused flutter, the merry flutter, and the amorous flutter. Not to be tedious, there is scarce any emotion in the mind which does not produce a suitable agitation in the fan; insomuch, that if I only see the fan of a disciplined lady, I know very well whether she laughs, frowns, or blushes. Addison FANATICISM-in the 16th Century.

In Paris the close of Lent was a stimulus to

the prevailing excitement. A series of processions took place which were begun, inno

FANATICISM.

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cently enough, by children, girls and boys,
who walked two by two, with tapers, chanting
hymns and litanies prepared for them by the
priests.
Then came parish pro-
cessions in which all the parishioners of what-
ever age, sex, or quality, joined; some of the
most devout walking to do penance as though
in their shifts. Still a new impetus was
wanting. It was necessary to warm the
popular heart by a great theatrical display.
A priest came forward and declared that in
these processions over the hard pavements of
Paris, nothing could be more meritorious,
nothing more agreeable to God, than that

women should walk with their delicate little
fect bare, however it might cause them to
suffer. Immediately, many an enthusiastic
young girl devoted herself to this new morti-
fication, and appeared, not with bare feet
only, but almost naked-wearing only a slight
linen drapery, not too carefully covering her
form. These weeping and dishevelled Mag-
dalenes produced more laughter than edification.
At length, the Duchess of Montpensier, the
Judith of the League, decided to act her part
without hesitation. She abandoned robes and
petticoats, and dispensed with the light
drapery of the penitents, even over her bosom,
with the exception of a simple veil of lace.
The people rushed to see her. Crowded and
pressed, the heroine was by no means discon-
certed. She had set the fashion. Matrons
and maidens followed it.
Michelet.

FANATICISM-Definition of.

Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of life. Robert Hall.

FANATICISM-Fatal Hold of.

And they believe him-oh, the lover may
Distrust that look which steals his heart
away;

The babe may cease to think that it may play
With heaven's rainbow; alchemists may doubt
The shining gold their crucible gives out;—
But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

Moore.

prey

In melancholy bosoms, such as were

Of moody texture from their earliest day,
And loved to dwell in darkness and dismay,
Deeming themselves predestined to a doom
Which is not of the pangs that pass away;

FANCY-Illusions of.

Where'er we turn, by fancy charm'd, we find
Some sweet illusion of th' created mind.
Oft, wild of wing, she calls the soul to rove
With humbler nature, in the rural grove,
Where swains contented own the quiet scene,
And twilight fairies tread the circled green.

FANATICISM-Demon Spirit of.

Demons, who impair

The strength of better thoughts, and seek their Dress'd by her hand, the woods and valleys

smile,

And spring diffusive decks the enchanted isle.
Collins.

FANCY-Imaginings of.
Her fancy follow'd him through foaming waves,
To distant shores, and she would sit and weep