GODLINESS.

GODLINESS-Promises of.

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

St. Paul.

thoughts in a college for the conduct of life; and, after all, the man so qualified shall besitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want common sense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice, and learning, cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellences, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. Steele. Bishop Mant. GOOD-BREEDING-Caricatures of

GOOD-when to be Done.

That which is good to be done, cannot be done too soon; and if it is neglected to be done early, it will frequently happen that it I will not be done at all.

GOOD-in Everything.

The man
Who, in right spirit, communes with the forms
Of Nature-who with understanding heart
Doth know and love such objects as excite
No morbid passions, no disquietude,

Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of Heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their

all trace of natural manner, and, with all their
pains, they please but little.
La Brugere.

No vengeance, and no hatred-needs must feel attitudes before the glass until they have lost
The joy of that pure principle of love
So deeply, that unsatisfied with aught
Less pure and exquisite, he cannot choose
But seek for objects of a kindred love
In fellow-natures, and a kindred joy.
Accordingly, he by degrees perceives
His feelings of aversion soften'd down;
A holy tenderness pervades his frame,
His sanity of reasoning not impaired,
Say rather, all his thoughts now flowing clear,
From a clear fountain flowing he looks

around,

And seeks for good, and finds the good he

seeks;

Until abhorrence and contempt are things
He only knows by name: and if he hear
From other mouths the language which they
speak,

He is compassionate, and has no thought,
No feeling which can overcome his love.
Wordsworth.

GOOD-from Evil.

Oh, yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill—

To pangs of nature-sins of will,
Defect of doubt and taint of blood;
That nothing walks with aimless feet,

That not one life shall be destroy'd
Or cast as rubbish to the void
When God hath made the pile complete.

GOOD-BREEDING.

Tennyson.

GOOD and EVIL-Operation of.

Health, beauty, vigour, riches, and all the other things called goods, operate equally as evils to the vicious and unjust, as they do as benefits to the just. Plato.

GOOD-BREEDING-Advantages of.

We see a world of pains taken, and the best years of life spent, in collecting a set of

Good-breeding and refinement, or rather the externals of these qualities, are generally considered as wholly precluding those vulgar manifestations of ill-temper, rudeness, impertinence, and similar feelings, which the un

sophisticated display with such perfect frank

ness. But it does not thence follow, that the well-bred and refined have not their little

spites, little envious feelings, little assumptions of consequence to gratify; indeed, they do gratify them very freely; all the difference lies in the manner; for there is a finish, a delicacy of touch in the polite impertinence of the well-bred, which the under-bred may envy, but must never hope to attain. The slight that can be conveyed in a glance, in a gracious smile, in a wave of the hand, is often the ne plus ultra of art. What insult is so keen, or so keenly felt, as the polite insult, which it is impossible to resent! Nathalie.

GOOD-BREEDING-Manifestation of.

Good-breeding shows itself most where, to an ordinary eye, it appears the least. Addison.

GOOD-BREEDING-Necessity of.

Good-breeding is as necessary a quality in conversation, to accomplish all the rest, as grace in motion and dancing. Sir W. Temple.

GOOD-BREEDING-Objects of.

One principal point of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men,-our superiors, our equals, and those below us. Shift.

GOOD-NATURE,

GOOD-NATURE.

Good-sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candour, is the product of right reason, which, of necessity, will give allowance to the failings of others, by considering that there is nothing perfect in mankind; and by distinguishing that which comes nearest to excellency, though not absolutely free from faults, will certainly produce a candour in the judge.

Dryden.

GOOD-NATURE-the Gift of Heaven.

That inexhaustible good-nature, which is the most precious gift of Heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. Washington Irving.

GOODNESS-Immortality of.

Thousands of men breathe, move, and live, pass off the stage of life, and are heard of no more-Why? they do not partake of good in the world, and none were blessed by them; none could point to them as the means of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spake, could be recalled; and so they perished; their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal! Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storm of time can never destroy. Write your name, in kindness, love, and mercy, on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year: you will never be forgotten. No, your name, your

Mind.

GOOD-NATURE the Beauty of the deeds, will be as legible on the hearts you leave behind as the stars on the brow of evening. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven. Chalmers.

Good-nature is the beauty of the mind, and, like personal beauty, wins almost without anything else, sometimes, indeed, in spite of positive deficiencies. Hanway.

GOODNESS.

GOODNESS-Characteristics of.

Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and ignities of the mind, is the greatest, being

the character of the Deity; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing. Bacon.

There is nothing, no, nothing innocent or good, that dies, and is forgotten: let us hold to that faith, or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in its cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those who loved it; and play its part, through them, in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes, or drowned in the deepest sea. There is not an angel added to the host of heaven but does its blessed work on earth in

those that loved it here. Forgotten! oh, if the good deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection, would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves. Dickens.

GOODNESS-Joy resulting from.

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us, is the purest and

sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of Divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it; and it will not only soothe and tranquillize a troubled spirit, but inspire a constant flow of good-humour, content, and gaiety of heart. Bishop Porteus.

GOODNESS-a Principle.

He that is a good man is three-quarters of

GRACE.

which harmonizes so beautifully with the character stamped on the face and figure, and which completes one of the most sublime and poetic works that art has ever produced.

Winkelman.

GRACE of Person.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind. La Rochefoucauld.

GRACEFULNESS-a Simile.

Graceful, when it pleased him, smooth and still
As the mute swan that floats adown the stream,
And on the waters of th' unruffled lake
Anchors her quiet beauty.

Wordsworth.

GRATITUDE.

GRASSES-Uses of.

Grasses are Nature's care.

With these God clothes the earth; with these sustains its inhabitants. Cattle feed upon their leaves, birds upon their smaller seeds, men upon the larger; for few readers need be told that the plants which produce our bread-corn belong to this class. In those tribes which are more generally considered as grasses, their extraordinary means and powers of preservation and increase, their hardiness, their almost unconquerable disposition to spread, their properties of reproduction, coincide with the intention of Nature concerning them. They thrive under a treatment by which other plants are destroyed. The more their leaves are consumed, the more their roots increase; the more they are trampled upon, the thicker they grow. Many of the seemingly dry and dead leaves of grasses revive, and renew their verdure in the spring. Ia lofty mountains, where the summer heats are not sufficient to ripen the seeds, grasses

abound which are able to propagate themselves without seed. It is an observation, likewise, which has often been made, that herb-eating animals attach themselves to the leaves of grasses, and, if at liberty in their pastures to range and choose, leave untouched the straws which support the flowers. Paley.

GRACE and ELEGANCE.

nature

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift, elegance implies cultivation, or something of Warm into ecstasy. more artificial character. A rustic uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons: we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten, or a young fawn, are full of grace; but to call them" elegant" animals would be absurd. Lastly, "elegant" may be applied to mental qualifications, which " graceful" never Elegance must always imply something that is made or invented by man. An imitation of nature is not so; therefore we do not speak of an "elegant picture," though we do of an elegant pattern for a gown, an elegant piece of work. The general rule is, that elegance is the characteristic of art, and grace Whately.

can

of nature.

GRATITUDE-Agreeableness of.

Which makes each generous impulse of my

Joanna Baillie.

GRATITUDE-Aids to.

Amongst the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one, to study and

contemplate the perfections and beauties of his works of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God. He hath so ordered things that almost every part of the creation is for our benefit, either to the support of our being, the delight of our senses, or the agreeable exercise of the rational faculty. If there are some few poisonous animals and plants fatal to man, these may serve to heighten the contrary blessings; since we could have no idea of benefits, were we insensible of their contraries; and seeing God has given us reason, by which we are able to choose the good, and avoid the evil, we suffer very little from the malignant parts of the creation. Edwards.

GRATITUDE-Necessity of.

He that has nature in him must be grateful;
'Tis the Creator's primary great law,
That links the chain of beings to each other,
Joining the greater to the lesser nature,
Tying the weak and strong, the poor and
powerful.
Subduing men to brutes, and even brutes to
Madan.

men.

GRATITUDE-of Generous Poverty.
I have five hundred crowns,
The thrifty hire I saved under your father,
Which I did store, to be my foster-nurse,
When service should in my old limbs lie lame,
And unregarded age in corners thrown;
Take that and He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;
All this I give you: Let me be your servant;
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty:
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did with unbashful forehead woo