simple respect to present gratification, we act PASSION-Sullen. PASSION-Impressibility of. When passions glow, the heart, like heated steel, Takes each impression, and is work'd at pleasure. Young. PASSION-Progress of. In the slow progress of some insidious disease which is scarcely regarded by its cheerful and unconscious victim, it is mournful to mark the smile of gaiety as it plays over that very bloom, which is not the freshness of health but the flush of approaching mortality, amid studies, perhaps, just opening into intellectual excellence, and hopes and plans of generous ambition that are never to be fulfilled. But how much more painful is it, to behold that equally insidious and far more desolating progress with which guilty passion steals upon the heart, when there is still sufficient virtue to feel remorse; and to sigh at the remembrance of purer years, but not sufficient to throw off the guilt, which is felt to be oppressive, and to return to that purity in which it would again, in its bitter moments, gladly take shelter, if only it had energy to vanquish the almost irresistible habits that would tear it As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Now what a sullen-blooded fool was this, No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness strength and contracting his capacities. of his voluptuous desires by stinting his PASSIONS-Contrasted. Tillotson. Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storms and tempests; but quiet and easy natures are, like fair weather, welcome to all, and acceptable to all men, they gather together what the others disperse, and reconcile all whom the others incense; as they have the good will and the good wishes of all other men, so they have the full posses! sion of themselves, have all their own thoughts at peace, and enjoy quiet and ease in their own fortune, how strait soever it may be. Clarendon PASSIONS-Controversy with. Authors should avoid as much as they can. replies and rejoinders, the usual consequences of which are loss of time, and loss of temper. Happy is he who is engaged in controversy with his own passions, and comes off superior; who makes it his endeavour that his follies and weaknesses may die before him, and who daily meditates on mortality and immortality. Jortia. PASSIONS-Evil Effects of. Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after. Pupe. As rivers, when they overflow, drown those Grows with his growth, and strengthens with grounds, and ruin those husbandmen, which, his strength; whilst they flowed calmly betwixt their banks, they fertilized and enriched; so our passions, when they grow exorbitant and unruly, destroy those virtues, to which they may be very serviceable whilst they keep within their bounds. Bogle A very small part of the disorders of the world proceed from ignorance of the laws by which life ought to be regulated; nor do many PAST-Reflections on the. We will stand and watch the great river of people flow through this arch, as it has been doing ever since Oates snuffled or Nell Gwynne sang. Oh, that stout gentleman with the complacent face, brushing a spot of dust off his sere brown coat, is Mr. Pepys, a great man in the Admiralty; let him pass, he is not a street hero. That? Oh, that is the quiet country gentleman, Mr. Evelyn, a travelled, art-loving man-nothing to Clark, the posturemaker, or Hugh Massey, the merry fiddler. That long-faced, pale creature is only one Isaac Newton, an absent college man, who has just written a book no one cares about, called The Principia. The young vain buck in the gilt coach is Kneller, the great painter, who thinks that at the last day there will be a peculiar special awakening trumpet blown to arouse him. That gay fellow with him is the celebrated French artist, Delafosse, a pupil of Le Brun, who has come to London to paint the apotheosis of Isis on a ceiling of Montague House (now the British Museum), Isis having long evaporated. Do you see that benevolent man who looks as if when he caught a poacher up a tree in the episcopal woods he would entreat him to take care how he came down. That is Bishop Ken, of Bath and Wells, the good man who wrote our Evening Hymn. Wait here an hour or two-now that the Waggons and chairs hurry on to Buckingham House at Aldersgate, or westward to Westminster, dogged by dark, deep-cut shadowsnow, just at twelve, that a bright river of sun along the shady side of the street fast widens as the heat spreads and day advances-and you might see pass these taverns and this Temple gateway, with its treacherous lamb and flag, that looks so like a bill, among a motley group of Alsatian squires, with broad sword belts and copper belts, among Izaak Walton citizens, bullies like Blood, who bagged the crown; the fat Duke of Albemarle; the Passions, like raging storms, grow loud and burly Earl of Devonshire, who was fined £30,000 for drawing Colonel Culpepper by his nose out of the Presence Chamber; the cruel 2 H 2 Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail That brings our friends up from the under-world, Sad as the last which reddens over me. Hood. PAST FAVOURS AND INJURIES. The memory of past favours is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains for ever. Haliburton. PAST AND FUTURE. It is necessary to look forward as well as backward, as some think it always necessary to regulate their conduct by things that have been done of old times; but that past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on an alteration of some past that went before it. Madame de Stael. PASTIME-Abuse of. Pastime is a word that should never be used but in a bad sense: it is vile to say such a thing is agreeable because it helps to pass the time away. PATIENCE-Advantages of. Shenstone. Rousser By their patience and perseverance God's children are truly known from hypocrites and Augustine. dissemblers. PATIENCE-under Affliction. The world has arrived at a period which Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. renders it the part of fashion to pay homage to the prospective precedents of the future, in preference to those of the past. The past dead, and has no resurrection; but the future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The past is, in many things, the foe of mankind; the future is, in all things, our friend. For the past has no hope; the future is both hope and fruition. The past is the text-book of tyrants; the future the bible of the free. Those who are solely governed by the past, stand, like Lot's wife, crystallized in the act of looking backward, and for ever incapable of looking forward. Marryat. The sincere and earnest approach of the Christian to the throne of the Almighty, teaches the best lesson of patience under affliction; since, wherefore should we mock the Deity with supplications, when we insult Him by murmuring under His decrees; or how while our prayers have in every word admitted the vanity and nothingness of the things of The mild, the lowly, and the gentle patience, encourage this desire, I shall not have written in vain. But, as one earnestly desiring to hasten the coming of Christ's kingdom, I cannot refrain from counselling moderation in language and forbearance in action. The Devil himself could not, in such a crisis as this, desire anything better for his own interests than a display of ignorant, unreflecting Christian zeal on the part of his enemies. Pure as may be the source from which it springs, such zeal is not in accordance with those blessed lessons of practical wisdom Whose eye looks up to God; and ne'er taught by Him who lifted up his voice against unbends Pale, calm, unmoved amid the storms of life; The meek-eyed pilgrim of the earth, that child C. L. Reddell. PATIENCE-Endurance of. When did I complain Or murmur at my fate? I bore my load of infamy with patience, PATIENCE-Grace of. Patience Rowe. Of whose soft grace, I have her sovereign aid, PATIENCE-mingled with Grief. I do note, That grief and patience, rooted in him both, And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine PATIENCE-respecting Missions. the folly of putting new wine into old bottles, hortation to give no offence. The people of and upon whose lips ever hung the loving exEngland may be assured that the question which many would rashly attempt to solveat any time, and under any circumstances, a very difficult and a very delicate one-is surrounded with peculiar perplexities and embarrassments, the growth of recent events, and that any arrogant rushings-in, regardless of the warning voices of those whose zeal takes another direction, will assuredly retard the coming which they seek to accelerate. William Kaye. PATIENCE-Prayer of. "O dreary life!" we cry, O dreary life!" Serenely live while we are keeping strife Meek leaves drop yearly from the forest-trees, But so much patience, as a blade of grass PATIENCE-Submissiveness of. I see thou hast pass'd sentence on my heart; Earnestness is a great thing, but patience is I will bear it Ibid. My country claims me all, claims every passion; For her my own I'd willingly resign, Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility. Patience governs the PATRIOTS-Rewards of the. flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom. Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the state, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and improves the man; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either sex and every age. He who undertakes an occupation of great toil and great danger, for the purpose of serving, defending, and protecting his country. is a most valuable and respectable member of society; and if he conducts himself with valour, fidelity, and humanity, and amidst the horrors of war cultivates the gentle manners of peace, and the virtues of a devout and holy life, he most amply deserves, and will assuredly receive, the esteem, the admiration, and the applause of his grateful country; and, what is of still greater importance, the approbation of his Bishop Portens Bishop Horne. Pope. God. PATRIOTISM-Appreciation of. PATRIOTISM-Examples of. Grave precepts fleeting notions may impart, |