FEELINGS-Training of the.

As a gladiator trained the body, so must we train the mind, to self-sacrifice, "to endure all things," to meet and overcome difficulty and danger. We must take the rough and thorny road as well as the smooth and pleasant; and a portion at least of our daily duty must be hard and disagreeable; for the mind cannot be kept strong and healthy in perpetual sunshine only, and the most dangerous of all states is that of constantly-recurring pleasure, ease, and prosperity. Most persons will find difficulties and hardships enough without seeking them; let them not repine, but take them as a part of that educational discipline necessary to fit the mind to arrive at its highest good. Charles Bray. FEELINGS - tincturing the internal World.

I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

0 Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does nature live:

Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! Coleridge.

FEELINGS-of Youth.

FICTION-Morality of.

We must remember, that fiction is not falsehood. If a writer puts abstract virtues into book-clothing, and sends them upon stilts into the world, he is a bad writer; if he classifies men, and attributes all virtue to one class and all vice to another, he is a false writer. Then, again, if his ideal is so poor that he fancies man's welfare to consist in immediate happiness; if he means to paint a great man and paints only a greedy one, he is a mischievous writer; and not the less so, although by lamp-light and among a juvenile audience his coarse scene-painting should be thought very grand. He may be true to his own fancy, but he is false to nature. A writer of course cannot get beyond his own ideal; but at least he should see that he works up to it; and if it is a poor one, he had better write histories of the utmost concentration of dulness, than amuse us with unjust and untrue imaginings. Helps.

FIDELITY-Devotedness of.

Come rest in this bosom, my own stricken deer! Though the herd hath fled from thee, thy home

is still here.

and often acts with a more certain aim. William Carleton. FESTIVALS-Benefits of.

Festivals, when duly observed, attach men to the civil and religious institutions of their country: it is an evil, therefore, when they fall into disuse. For the same reason the loss

of local observances is to be regretted: who is there that does not remember their effect upon himself in early life? Southey.

last!

Moore.

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart;
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from
earth.
Shakspeare.

FIEND-Portraiture of the.

Satan, the impersonation of that mixture of the bestial, the malignant, the impious, and the hopeless, which constitute the fiend,-the enemy of all that is human and divine. Mrs. Jameson.

FINIS.

My pen is at the bottom of a page,
Which being finished, here the story ends;
"Tis to be wish'd it had been sooner done,
But stories somehow lengthen when begun.
Byron.

FIRE-Friendliness of a.

A fire's a good companionable friend,
A comfortable friend, who meets your face
With welcome glad, and makes the poorest shed
As pleasant as a palace. Are you cold?
He warms you-weary? he refreshes you-
Hungry? he doth prepare your food for you-
Are you in darkness? he gives light to you-
In a strange land? he wears a face that is
Familiar from your childhood. Are you poor?
What matters it to him. He knows no difference

FIRESIDE-Social Importance of the. The fireside is a seminary of infinite importance. It is important because it is universal, and because the education it bestows, being woven in with the wool of childhood. gives form and colour to the whole texture of life. There are few who can receive the

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honours of a college, but all are graduates of the hearth. The learning of the university may fade from the recollection, its classic lore may moulder in the halls of memory; but the simple lessons of home, enamelled upon the heart of childhood, defy the rust of years, and outlive the more mature but less vivid picture of after-years. So deep, so lasting, indeed, are the impressions of early life, that you often see man in the imbecility of age holding fresh in his recollection the events of childhood, while all the wide space between that and the present hour is a blasted and forgotten waste. You have perchance seen an old and half-obliterated portrait, and in the attempt to have it cleaned and restored you may have seen it fade away, while a brighter and more perfect picture, painted beneath, is revealed to view. This portrait, first drawn upon the canvas, is no inapt illustration of youth; and though it may be concealed by some after-design, still the original traits will shine through the outward picture, giving it tone while fresh, and surviving it in decay. Such is the fireside,-the great institution of Providence for the education of man.

FLATTERERS.

FIRST and LAST.

First must give place to last, because last must have his time to come; but last gives place to nothing, for there is not another to succeed. Bunyan.

FISH-Varieties of.

Our plenteous streams a various race supply,
The bright-eyed perch, with fins of various
dye;
The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd;
The yellow carp, in scales bedropt with gold;
Swift trouts, diversified with crimson stains,
And pikes, the tyrants of the watery plains.
Pope.

FISHING-Requisites for Successful.
A day with not too bright a beam,

A warm but not a scorching sun,
A southern gale to curl the stream,

And, master, half our work is done.
There, whilst behind some bush we wait,
We'll prove it just, with treacherous bait,
The scaly people to betray,

To make the preying trout our prey:
And think ourselves, in such an hour,
Happier than those, though not so high,
Who, like leviathans, devour
Of meaner men the smaller fry.

Izaak Walton. FLATTERERS-No Confidence in. Meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips. Solomon.

FLATTERERS-Different Kinds of.

and if he be an ordinary flatterer, he will have Some praises proceed merely of flattery; certain common attributes which may serve every man; if he be a cunning flatterer, he self; but if he be an impudent flatterer, will follow the arch-flatterer, which is a man's look' wherein a man is conscious to himself that he is most defective, and is most out of entitle him to, perforce. countenance in himself, that will the flatterer Bacon.

FLATTERERS-the Lowest of Mankind.
Hold!

No adulation !-'tis the death of virtue !
Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest,
Save him who courts the flattery.

Hannah More.
FLATTERERS-Meeting of.
When flatterers meet the devil goes to

dinner.

De Foe.

Burns.

Great lords, by reason of their flatterers, are the first to know their own virtues, and

FLOWERS-Associations of.

How the universal heart of man blesses flowers! They are wreathed round the cradle, the marriage altar, and the tomb. The Persian in the far-east delights in their perfume, and writes his love in nosegays; while the Indian child of the far-west claps his hands with glee as he gathers the abundant blossoms-the illuminated scriptures of the prairies. The Cupid of the ancient Hindoos tipped his arrows with flowers, and orange-flowers are a bridal crown with us, a nation of yesterday. Flowers garlanded the Grecian altar, and hung in votive wreath before the Christian shrine. All these are appropriate uses. Flowers should deck the brow of the youthful bride, for they are in themselves a lovely type of marriage. They should twine round the tomb, for their perpetually-renewed beauty is a symbol of the resurrection. They should festoon the altar, for their fragrance and their beauty ascend in perpetual worship before the Most High.

Mrs. Child.

FLOWERS.

That life's quick travellers ne'er might pass you by

Unwarn'd of that sweet oracle divine.
And though too oft its low, celestial sound
By the harsh notes of work-day care is drown'd.
And the loud steps of vain, unlist'ning haste,
Yet the great lesson hath no tone of
power
Mightier to reach the soul in thought's hush'd
hour,

Than yours, meek lilies, chosen thus, and
graced.
Mrs. Hemans.
Lovely flowers are the smiles of God's goodness.
Wilberforce.

They bring me tales of youth, and tones of love,

And 'tis and ever was my wish and way
To let all flowers live freely and all die,
Whene'er their genius bids their souls depart,
Among their kindred in their native place.
I never pluck the rose; the violet's head
Hath shaken with my breath upon its bank,
And not reproach'd me; the ever sacred cup
Of the pure lily hath between my hands
Felt safe, unsoil'd, nor lost one grain of gold.
Walter Savage Landor

In all places, then, and in all seasons,
Flowers expand their light and soul-like
wings,

Teaching us, by the most persuasive reasons,
How akin they are to human things.
And with childlike, credulous affection,

We behold their tender buds expand, Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. Longfellow.

Who does not look back with feelings which he would in vain attempt to describe, to the delightful rambles which his native fields and meadows afforded to his earliest years? Flowers are among the first objects that forcibly attract the attention of young children, becoming to them the source of gratifications which are among the purest of which our nature is capable, and of which even the indistinct recollection imparts often a fleeting pleasure to

the most cheerless moments of after-life. FLOWERS-Beauty of.

Kidd.

eye

Fell on your gentle beauty; when from you
That heavenly lesson for all hearts He drew,
Eternal, universal as the sky;
Then in the bosom of your purity

A voice He set, as in a temple shrine,

wealth

She decks her summer beauty: primrose sweet,

With blossoms of pure gold; enchanting rose, That like a virgin queen, salutes the sun, Dow-diadem'd.

Croly