EPITHET.

EPITHET-Proper Use of an.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature. Johnson.

EQUALITY-in the Future.

In the gates of Eternity, the black hand and the white hold each other with an equal clasp. Mrs. Stowe.

EQUALITY-Impossibility of.

Let us suppose a case in which the equality in the circumstances of the individuals of a society is not positive and absolute, but in which the association is only one of comparative equality. Such a system has been summed up in a famous formula :

From every one according to his aptitudes.
To every one according to his needs.

In plainer words, every one shall be required
to give to the association all that his powers
of whatever kind enable him to give; and
every one shall receive from the association
all that his wants need for their satisfaction.
The man with most ability shall give most; the
man with least ability shall receive most. Sala.

EQUALITY (Political)-Arrogant Spirit

of.

Equality is one of the most consummate scoundrels that ever crept from the brain of a political juggler; -a fellow who thrusts his hand into the pocket of honest industry or enterprising talent, and squanders their hardearned profits on profligate idleness or indolent stupidity. Langstaff.

EQUANIMITY.

My days, though few, have pass'd below
In much of joy, though more of woe;
Yet still, in hours of love or strife,
I've 'scaped the weariness of life.

EQUITY.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.

Once upon the inclined road of error, and there is no swiftness so tremendous as that with which we dash adown the plane, no insensibility so obstinate as that which fastens on us through the quick descent. The start once made, and there is neither stopping nor waking until the last and lowest depth is sounded. Our natural fears and promptings become hushed with the first impetus, and we are lost to everything but the delusive tones of sin, which only cheat the senses and make our misery harmonious. Farewell all opportunities of escape-the strivings of conscience-the faithful whisperings of shame, which served us even when we stood trembling at the fatal point! Farewell the holy power of virtue, which made foul things look hideous, and good things lovely, and kept a guard about our hearts to welcome beauty and frighten off deformity! Farewell integrity-joy-restand happiness.

ERROR-Encouragement of.

Melvill.

Before we permit our severity to break loose

upon any fault or error, we ought surely to consider how much we have countenanced or promoted it. We see multitudes busy in the pursuit of riches at the expense of wisdom and virtue; but we see the rest of mankind approving their conduct and exciting their eagerness, by paying that regard and deference to wealth which wisdom and virtues can only Byron. deserve. We see women universally jealous of the reputation of their beauty, and frequently look with contempt on the care with which they study their complexions, endeavour to preserve or supply the bloom of youth, regulate every ornament, twist their hair into curls, and shade their faces from the weather. We recommend the care of their nobler part, and tell them how little addition is made by all their arts to the graces of the mind. But where was it known that female goodness or knowledge was able to attract that officiousness or inspire that ardour which beauty produces whenever it appears? And with what hope can we endeavour to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet-table is lost in vanity, when they have every moment some new conviction

St. Matthew. EQUIVOCATION-the Murder of Truth.

A sudden lie may be sometimes only manslaughter upon truth; but by a carefully constructed equivocation, truth always is with malice aforethought deliberately murdered.

ERROR-Means of Avoiding.

Morley.

The great means of guarding against the errors which surround us, is the diligent, obedient, devout, teachable study of God's

:

that their interest is more effectually pro- ERRORS-Perpetually made.

moted by a fine riband well disposed than by the brightest act of heroic virtue? Johnson.

It is a melancholy fact, verified by every day's observation, that the experience of the past is totally lost both upon individuals and nations. A few persons, indeed, who have attended to the history of former errors, are aware of the consequences to which they invariably lead, and lament the progress of national violence in the same way as they do the career of individual intemperance. But, upon the great mass of mankind-the young, the active, and the ambitious-such examples are wholly thrown away. Each successive

generation plunges into the abyss of passion,

without the slightest regard to the fatal effects which such conduct has produced upon their predecessors; and lament, when too late, the rashness with which they slighted the advice of experience, and stifled the voice of Steele.

reason.

ERRORS-Serious Consequence of.

There will be mistakes in divinity while men preach, and errors in governments while men govern. Sir Dudley Carlton.

ERRORS-like Straws.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive

We must never prefer the esteem of men to the approbation of God. Every day this sacred rule is transgressed, by sacrificing virtue and conscience to false honour and popular renown. Jortin.

ESTEEM-preferred to Reputation.

The consideration we are held in is owing to the effect which our personal qualities have on others. If these be great and exalted, they excite admiration; if amiable and endearing, they create friendship. We enjoy esteem much more than we do reputation: the one affects us nearly, the other lies more at a distance; and, though greater, we are less sensible of it, as it seldom comes close enough to become a real possession. We acquire the love of people, who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation (or celebrity) from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbours, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.

ESTRANGEMENT.

Sala.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. Bulwer Lytton. ETERNITY-always fronting God. Eternity stands always fronting God;

A stern colossal image, with blind eyes,
And grand dim lips, that murmur evermore
"God, God, God!" Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

ETERNITY-Immeasurability of.

Ere the foundations of the world were laid,
Ere kindling light the Almighty Word obey'd,
Thou wert; and when the subterraneous flame

Those things which now seem frivolous and Shall burst its prison and devour this frame,

From angry heaven when the keen lightning
flies,
When fervent heat dissolves the melting
skies,

None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore; it is a deep, where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth, from whence we cannot extricate ourselves, and ETIQUETTE-Extravagances of.

ETIQUETTE.

forget etiquette. But that which violates etiquette in England more than anything else is-want of nerve to ruin yourself-run into debt-nobody will wonder; but, above all, be a spendthrift. If, when a foreigner arrives in London, it becomes known that he lodges in one of the economical hotels near Leicester Square, he is lost to certain society. Never wili an equipage, nor even the card of a lord, wander thither. The respectablity for which the English contend means simply material Ivantages - it has no relation to moral

And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight,

And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his drony flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.
Save that from yonder ivy-mantled tower,
The moping owl does to the moon complain
Of such as, wand'ring near her secret bower,
Molest her ancient, solitary reign.

Now came still Evening on, and Twilight grey
Had in her sober livery all things clad.
Silence accompanied for beast and bird,
They to their grassy couch, these to their

nests,

Gray.

The skies yet blushing, with departing light;
When falling dews with spangles deck'd the
glade,

And the low sun had lengthen'd every shade.
Pope.

The sun has lost his rage, his downward orb
Shoots nothing now but animating warmth;
And vital lustre, that, with various ray,
Lights up the clouds those beauteous robes

of heaven,
Incessant roll'd into romantic shapes,
The dream of waking fancy.

There are two periods in the life of man in which the evening hour is peculiarly interesting-in youth and in old age. In youth, we love it for its mellow moonlight, its million of stars, its thin, rich, and shooting shades, its still serenity; amid those who can commune with our loves, or twine the wreaths of friend

Thomson. ship, while there is none to bear us witness but the heavens and the spirits that hold their endless sabbath there-or look into the deep bosom of creation, spread abroad like a canopy above us, and look and listen till we can almost see and hear the waving wings and melting songs of other worlds. To youth, evening is

While from the sky the ruddy sun descends,
And rising night the evening shade extends;
While pearly dews o'erspread the fruitful field,
And closing flowers reviving odours yield;