PASSION.

simple respect to present gratification, we act PASSION-Sullen.
from passion. When we act from a respect
to our whole individual happiness, without
regard to the present, only as it is a part of
the whole, and without any regard to the
happiness of others, only as it will contribute
to our own, we are then said to act from self-
love.
Wayland.

PASSION-Impressibility of.

When passions glow, the heart, like heated steel,

Takes each impression, and is work'd at pleasure. Young.

PASSION-The Ruling.

Search then the ruling passion; there alone
The wild are constant, and the cunning known;

The fool consistent, and the false sincere :
Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

Pope.

PASSIONS.

As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death;
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with

his strength;

So, cast and mingled with his very frame,
The mind's disease, its ruling passion came.
Ibid.

Tillotson.

PASSIONS-Contrasted.

PASSION-Progress of.

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Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storms and tempests; bu 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

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

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Brown.

PASSION-the Spring of the Soul.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages. Sprat.

Now what a sullen-blooded fool was this,
At sulks with earth and heaven! Could he not
Out-weep his passion like a blustering day
And be clear-skied thereafter.
A. Smith.

PASSIONS-Bounds set to the.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

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.
The wither'd frame, the ruin'd mind,
The wreck by passion left behind;
A shrivell'd scroll, a scatter'd leaf,
Sear'd by the autumn-blast of grief.

Byron.

PASSIONS.

even of those whose hands are polluted with PASSIONS-Violence of the.
the foulest crimes, deny the reasonableness of
virtue, or attempt to justify their own actions.
Men are not blindly betrayed into corruption,
but abandon themselves to their passions with
their eyes open; and lose the direction of
truth, because they do not attend to her voice,
not because they do not understand it.

Johnson.

PASSIONS-The Human.

They sat them down to weep: not only tears Rain'd at their eyes, but high winds worse within

Began to rise,-high passions, anger, hate,
Mistrust, suspicion, discord,-and shook sore
Their inward state of mind,-calm region once,
And full of peace,-now toss'd and turbulent;
For understanding ruled not, and the will
Heard not her love; both in subjection now
To sensual appetite, who from beneath,
Usurping over sov'reign reason, claim'd
Superior sway.

Milton.

PASSIONS Governing the.
What profits us that we from heaven derive
A soul immortal, and with looks erect
Survey the stars, if, like the brutal kind,
We follow where our passions lead the way?
Dryden.

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 Principio. 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

high, When they're most opposed.

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

Govern your passions, or otherwise they will
Horace.

govern you.

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The passions may be humoured till they become our master, as a horse may be pered till he gets the better of his rider; but early discipline will prevent mutiny, and keep the helm in the hands of reason. Cumberland.

The worst of slaves are those that are constantly serving their passions. Diogenes.

He whom passion rules, is bent to meet his death. Sir Philip Sidney.

PASSIONS-Violence of the.

Now by heaven

My blood begins my safer guides to rule,
And passion, having my best judgment choler'd,
Assays to lead the way.
Shakspeare.

PAST.

Passions without power,
Like seas against a rock, but lose their fury.
Denham.

Howard.

Passions, like seas, will have their ebbs and flows. Lec.

The passions, like heavy bodies down steep hills, once in motion, move themselves, and know no ground but the bottom. Fuller.

Oh! she has passions which outstrip the wind,
And tear her virtue up, as tempests root the
Congreve.

sea.

PAST.

Earl of Faversham, nephew of the great PAST AND PRESENT.
Turenne, who brought Monmouth to the
block; the bloated Jeffries; Sherlock or Tillot-
son; Burnet, just ready to start for Holland;
Baxter going to trial; Locke, on some kind
errand; Blow or Purcell.

Timbs.

When midnight o'er the moonless skies
Her pall of transient death has spread;
When mortals sleep, when spectres rise,
And none are wakeful but the dead;
No bloodless shape my way pursues,
No sheeted ghost my couch annoys,
Visions more sad my fancy views,-
Visions of long-departed joys. W. R. Spenser.

PAST DAYS.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean.
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy autumn-fields,
And thinking on the days that are no more.

PATIENCE.

Methought I saw
Life swiftly treading over endless space,
And, at her foot-print, but a bygone pace,
The ocean-past, which, with increasing wave,
Swallow'd her steps like a pursuing grave.

Hood.

PAST FAVOURS AND INJURIES.
The memory of past favours is like a rain-
bow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon
fades away.
The memory of injuries is en-
graved on the heart, and remains for ever.

Haliburton.

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.

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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.

Shenstone.

PATIENCE-Advantages of.

It was thy patience, Masinissa, patience, A champion clad in steel, that in the waste Attended still thy step, and saved my friend For better days. What cannot patience do! A great design is seldom snatch'd at once; 'Tis patience heaves it on. From savage That brings our friends up from the under-world, "Tis patience that has built up human life,

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail

nature

The nurse of arts.

Thomson.

Sad as the last which reddens over me.
That sinks with all we love below the verge,
So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more

Hood.

It is but reasonable to bear that accident patiently, which God sends, since impatience | does but entangle us, like the fluttering of a a net, but cannot at all ease our bird in trouble, or prevent the accident; it must be run through, and therefore it were better we compose ourselves to a patient than to a troubled and miserable suffering.

PAST AND FUTURE.

Jeremy Taylor.

Roussers

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 is 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.

By their patience and perseverance God's children are truly known from hypocrites and dissemblers. Augustine.

PATIENCE-under Affliction.

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

PATIENCE.

time, in comparison to those of eternity,
should we hope to deceive the Searcher of
Hearts, by permitting the world and worldly
passions to reassume the reins, even immedi-
ately after a solemn address to Heaven?
Sir Walter Scott.
PATIENCE - Beautiful Characteristics
of.

'Tis patience, the beloved of Heaven!
meek,

The mild, the lowly, and the gentle patience,
Whose eye looks up to God;
and ne'er

unbends

Its fixed and placid gaze to look upon
The thorns that tear her bleeding breast;

who stands

Pale, calm, unmoved amid the storms of life;
Whose soul weeps not for heart's torture-
patience,
The meek-eyed pilgrim of the earth, that child
Of heaven-perfection's crown.

C. L. Reddell. PATIENCE of Cowardice and Bravery. Patience in cowards is tame, hopeless fear; But in brave minds, a scorn of what they bear. Dryden.

PATIENCE-Endurance of.

When did I complain

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, unretheflecting 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 taught by Him who lifted up his voice against the folly of putting new wine into old bottles, hortation to give no offence. and upon whose lips ever hung the loving exThe people of England 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.

Or murmur at my fate?

I bore my load of infamy with patience,
As holy men do punishments from heaven;
Nor thought it hard, because it came from
Rowe.

thee.

PATIENCE-Grace of.

Patience

Of whose soft grace, I have her sovereign aid,
And rest myself content.
Shakspeare.

PATIENCE-mingled with Grief.

I do note,
That grief and patience, rooted in him both,
Mingle their spurs together.-
Grow, Patience!
And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine
His perishing root, with the increasing vine!
Ibid.

PATIENCE-respecting Missions.

Earnestness is a great thing, but patience is a better; and what should be now preached to the people of England, in respect of this great matter of Christianity in India, is, that they should possess themselves in patience. That all who appreciate the inestimable blessings of Christianity should eagerly desire to impart to others the glad tidings of salvation, is the necessary result of their own sincerity of faith. If I have said anything to

PATIENCE-Prayer of.

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O dreary life!" we cry, O dreary life!"
And still the generations of the birds
Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and
herds

My country claims me all, claims every passion;
Her liberty henceforth be all my thought!
Though with a brother's life yet cheaply
bought;
For her my own I'd willingly resign,
And say, with transport, that the gain was
mine.
Martyn

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. Bishop Horne. PATRIOT-Characteristics of the. Statesman, yet friend to truth! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear! Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, Praised, wept, and honour'd by the muse he loved. Pope.

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. PATRIOTISM-Appreciation of. What is it that you would impart to me! If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently: For, let the gods so speed me, as I love The name of honour more than I fear death. Shakspeare.

God.

PATRIOTISM-Examples of.
Grave precepts fleeting notions may impart,
But bright example best instructs the heart;
Then look on Fabius, let his conduct show,
From active life what various blessings flow.