grave

Of some poor sinner marks. The lily white
Bends on a fragile stalk her fairy bell,

Turn'd to the setting sun, with petals bright,
That seem to have a world of love to tell,
Then dips her cup within the crystal stream,
And with the daisy sleeps, to wake at day
again.

The evening star now lifts, as daylight fades,
His golden circlet in the deep'ning shades;
Stretch'd at his ease the weary lab'rer shares
A sweet forgetfulness of human cares;
At once in silence sink the sleeping gales,
The masts they drop, and furl the flagging
sails.

Broome.

EVIL-Deeds of.

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay,
Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme,
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.
Byron.
EVIL-No Excuse for Doing.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good. Coleridge.

EVIL-Extinction of.

It is certain that all the evils in society arise from want of faith in God, and of obedience to His laws; and it is no less certain, that by the prevalence of a lively and efficient belief, they would all be cured. If Christians in any country, yea, if any collected body of them, were what they might, and ought, and are commanded to be, the universal reception of the Gospel would follow as a natural and a promised result. And in a world of Christians, the extinction of physical evil might be looked for, if moral evil, that is, in Christian language, sin, were removed. Southey.

EVIL-not a Necessity.

As surely as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. For by the religious mind, sickness, and pain, and death are not to be accounted evils. Moral evils are of your own making; and undoubtedly, the greater part of them may be prevented. De

Haliburton.

occur. Some voluntary cast-aways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction: but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong. Southey.

EXCESS.

EXCELLENCE-Difficulty of acquiring. Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one common pursuit; for ex cellence is not often gained upon easier terms. Johnson.

It is certain that if every one could early enough be made to feel how full the world is already of excellence, and how much must be done to produce anything worthy of being placed beside what has already been produced, of a hundred youths who are now poetizing. scarcely one would feel enough courage, perattainment of a similar mastery. Many young severance, and talent to work quietly for the painters would never have taken their pencils in hand, if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael. Goethe. EXCELLENCE-Highest Quality of. A man that is desirous to excel, should endeavour it in those things that are in themselves most excellent. Epictetas.

EXCELLENCE-a Reward.

but as

Excellence is never granted to man, the reward of labour. It argues, indeed, no small strength of mind to persevere in the habits of industry, without the pleasure of perceiving those advantages which, like the hands of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.

Sir Joshua Reynolds. EXCELLENCIES-Concealment of. Rare qualities may sometimes be prerogatives without being advantages; and though a needless ostentation of one's excellencies may be more glorious, a modest concealment of them is usually more safe; and an unseasonable disclosure of flashes of wit, may sometimes do a man no other service, than to direct his adversaries how they may do him a mischief. Bogle.

EXECUTION-The.

A darker departure is near;

The death-drum is muffled, and sable the bier. Campbell.

Sweetly, oh sweetly! the morning breaks,
With roseate streaks,

Like the first faint blush on a maiden's cheeks;
Seem'd as that mild and clear blue sky
Smiled upon all things far and nigh,
On all-save the wretch condemn'd to die.
Alack! that ever so fair a sun

As that which its course had now begun,
Should rise on such scene of misery,-
Should gild with rays so light and free
That dismal dark-frowning gallows tree:
And hark! a sound comes big with fate,
The clock from St. Sepulchre's tower strikes
eight:

List to that low, funereal bell,

It is tolling, alas! a living man's knell:
And see! from forth that opening door
They come-He steps that threshold o'er
Who never shall tread upon threshold more ;-
God! 'tis a fearsome sight to see
That pale wan man's meek agony,
The glare of that wild, despairing eye
Now bent on the crowd, now turn'd to the
sky,

As though 'twere scanning in doubt and in fear

The path of the spirit's unknown career;
Those pinion'd arms, those hands which ne'er
Shall be lifted again-not even in prayer-
The heaving chest! Enough-'tis done,
The bolt has fallen! The spirit is gone:
For weal or for woe is known but to One.
Oh! 't was a fearsome sight! Ah me!
A deed to shudder at-not to see.

EXERCISE-Advantages of.

Barham.

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake of her rejoicings with heaven and earth. Milton.

EXERCISE-Mental.

By looking into physical causes, our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service. Burke.

EXERCISE.

amount of fatigue to preserve its natural strength, and maintain all the muscles and organs in proper vigour. This activity equalizes the circulation, and distributes the blood more effectually through every part. Cold feet, or a chill anywhere, shows that the circulation is languid there. The muscles during exercise press on the veins, and help forward the currents by quickening every vessel into activity. The valves of the heart are in this way aided in the work of sending on the stream, and relieved of a certain amount of labour. When exercise is neglected, the blood gathers too much about this central region, and the oppression about the heart, difficulty of breathing, lowness of spirits, anxiety and heaviness, numerous aches and stitches are evidences of this stagnation. People are afraid to take exercise, because they fancy they want breath, and feel weak. But the very effort would free the heart from this burthen, by urging the blood forward to the extremities; it would ease their breathing by liberating the lungs from the same superabundance; it would make the frame feel active and light, as the effect of equalized circulation and free action. Mailler. EXERCISE-Out-of-Door.

In Mr. Greeley's last letter from Europe to the New York Tribune, he speaks of the English women, and commends their perfection of figure. He attributes this to the English lady's habit of out-of-door exercise. We had thought that this fact was well known; that it was known years ago, and that our fair countrywomen would catch a hint from it that would throw colour into their cheeks and fulness into their forms. And yet, sadly enough, our ladies still coop themselves in their heated rooms, until their faces are like lilies, and their figures, like lily-stems. We have alluded to the matter now, not for the sake of pointing a satire surely, but for the sake of asking those one or two hundred thousand ladies, who every month light our passage with their looks, if they do indeed prize a little unnatural pearliness of hue and delicacy of complexion, beyond that ruddy flush of health (the very tempter of a kiss!) and that full development of figure, which all the poets, from Homer down, have made one of the chiefest beauties of a woman? If not, let them make themselves horsewomen; or bating that, let them make acquaintance with the sunrise; let them pick flowers with the dew upon them; let them study music of nature's own orchestra. Vulgarity is not essential to health; and a lithe, classic figure does not grow in hot-houses. For ourselves, we incline heartily to the belief, that if American women have a wish to add to the respect, the

Often try what weight you can support, And what your shoulders are too weak to bear. Roscommon.

EXERTION-ordained by God.

If God had so pleased, He could undoubtedly have rendered every being He has formed completely happy. He could have made them incapable even of rendering themselves miserable. He could have made them necessary instead of voluntary agents; and compelled them to act in the way that would infallibly have produced felicity; or He might have contrived men in such a manner that they must have been happy in whatever way they acted. He has not ordered matters in such a way; and therefore we may be sure that He never intended to do so. Everything is so conducted that His creatures arise to greater and greater degrees of happiness, in consequence of their own exertions, and in consequence of the improvement which, by His appointment, follows from their exertions. The more wise and virtuous they become, the more happy they are of consequence. It is evident, therefore, though the Deity intended to communicate happiness, and has done so in the most liberal manner, yet this was not the only end He had in view. He intended to make man happy; but it was in a particular manner, which He knew would at last contribute to the greatest general felicity of the species.

Professor Arthur. EXERTION-Good and Evil of.

With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.

EXPERIENCE-Dearness of.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarcely in that; for it true, we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. Remember this: they that will not be counselled cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason, she will rap your knuckles. Franklin. EXPERIENCE-achieved by Industry. He cannot be a perfect man, Not being tried, and tutor'd in the world: Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time. Shakspeare. EXPERIENCE-Limits to.

Human experience, like the stern-lights of a ship at sea, illumines only the path which we have passed over. Coleridge.