INFANT.

INFANT-Beauty of an.

A young star, who shone

O'er life, too sweet an image for such gloss,
A lovely being, scarcely form'd or moulded;
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
Byron.

INFANT-Beguilements of an.
Come, little infant, love me now,
With thine unsuspected years,
Clear the cares that dim my brow,
Disperse my sorrows and my fears.
Pretty, surely, 'twere to see,
By young Love old Time beguiled,
While our sportings are as free
As the nurse's with the child.

INFANT-Birth and Death of an.

The baby wept;

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children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence. Leigh Hunt.

The mother took it from the nurse's arms, And soothed its grief, and still'd its vain alarms; And baby slept.

Again it weeps; And God doth take it from the mother's arms, From present pain, and future unknown harms; And baby sleeps. Hinde.

INFANT-Death of an.

Death found strange beauty on that polish'd brow,

And dash'd it out. There was a tint of rose
O'er cheek and lip. He touch'd the veins with ice,
And the rose faded. Forth from those blue eyes
There spake a wistful tenderness, a doubt
Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence
Alone may wear. With ruthless haste, he bound
The silken fringes of those curtaining lids
For ever. There had been a murmuring sound,
With which the babe would claim its mother's

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other

Soft on my cheek, was such a full content
Of happiness, as none but mothers know.

But now alone I sit Musing of her, and dew with mournful tears Her little robes, that once with woman's pride I wrought, as if there were a need to deck What God had made so beautiful!

Gone to God!

Bestill, my heart! What could a mother's prayer,
In all the wildest ecstasies of hope,
Ask for its darling, like the bliss of Heaven?
Mrs. Sigourney.

INFANT-Feelings associated with an.
Joy thou bring'st, but mix'd with trembling;
Anxious joys and tender fears,
Pleasing hopes and mingled sorrows,
Smiles of transport dash'd with tears. Cottle.

INFANTS-Importance of.

He that of greatest works is finisher,
Oft does them by the weakest minister;
So Holy Writ in babes hath judgment shown,
When judges have been babes.

INFIDELITY-Bigot of.

Shakspeare.

Religion deserves a candid examination, and it demands nothing more. The fulfilment of prophecy forms a part of the evidence of Christianity. And are the prophecies false, or

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are they true? Is their fallacy exposed, or their truth ratified by the event? And whether are they thus proved to be the delusions of impostors, or the dictates of inspiration? To the solution of these questions a patient and impartial inquiry alone is requisite: reason alone is appealed to, and no other faith is here necessary, but that which arises as the natural and spontaneous fruit of rational conviction. The man who withholds this inquiry, and who will not be impartially guided by its result, is not only reckless of his fate, but devoid of that of which he prides himself the most, even of all true liberality of sentiment. He is the bigot of infidelity, who will not believe the truth because it is the truth. Keith.

INFLUENCE.

Everything to be valued has a compensating power. Not a blade of grass that withers, or the ugliest weed that is flung away to rot and die, but reproduces something. Nothing in nature is barren. Therefore, everything that is or seems opposed to nature, cannot be true; it can only exist in the shape that a diseased mind imparts to one of its coinages. Infidelity is one of those coinages, -a mass of base money that won't pass current with any heart that loves truly, or any head that thinks correctly. And infidels are poor sad creatures; they carry about them a load of dejection and desolation, not the less heavy that it is invisible. It is the fearful blindness of the soul. Chalmers.

INFIDELITY and FAITH-Different Acts of.

Infidelity and Faith look both through the same perspective-glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near, which are afar off, and makes great things little, diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils: Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in the distance, lost their greatness. Bishop Hall.

INFINITE-The.

The infinite is more sure than any other fact. The infinite of terror, of hope, of pity; did it not at any moment disclose itself to thee, indubitable, unnameable? Came it never, like the gleam of preternatural eternal oceans, like the voice of old eternities, farsounding through thy heart of hearts! Carlyle.

INFINITY-Characteristics of.

Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the sceptic sees an abyss, in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist, -I stand fast.

INFLUENCE-Bad.

Miller.

Not one false man but does uncountable mischief. Carlyle.

INFLUENCE-Expansion of.

As a little silvery circular ripple, set in motion by the falling pebble, expands from its inch of radius to the whole compass of the pool, so there is not a child-not an infant Moses-placed, however softly, in his bulrush ark upon the sea of time, whose existence does

INFLUENCE-Hereditary.

In proportion as we advance in experience, we cannot but deplore the ignorance of men, especially those who are engaged in the instruction of youth. Because they have taken high scholastic rank--because they know Greek and Latin, and have a certain faculty of divining the ordinary intellectual and moral ta'as of their pupils, they consider themselves competent to direct their life-career. Yet there rarely passes a year in which pupils Leave the public institutions of whom their masters have neither suspected the talents nor the destined renown. But this is not the question-that with which we chiefly reproach them is, that they ignore completely the physiology of man-that they have not the last knowledge of hereditary influence, and that they believe when they find a pupil idle, captious, or rebellious, that the remedy is perpetually to punish. The first thing ought to be to ascertain if the evil proceed from constitution, from education, or from hereditary causes. In this latter case all chastisement, far from correcting, will only aggravate the evil and hasten the explosion of the disease. Dr. Forbes Winslow.

Pace and temperament go for much in influencing opinion. Lady Morgan.

INFLUENCE-Possession of.

Can that man be dead Whose spiritual influence is upon his kind? He lives in glory; and such speaking dust Has more of life than half its breathing moulds. L. E. Landon.

INFLUENCE-Sum-Total of.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness, not only of the present, but of every subsequent age of humanity. No one can detach himself from this connection. There is no sequestered spot in the universe, no dark niche along the disc |

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of non-existence, to which he can retreat from his relations to others, where he can withdraw the influence of his existence upon the moral destiny of the world; everywhere his presence or absence will be felt-everywhere he will have companions who will be better or worse for his influence. It is an old saying, and one of fearful and fathomless import, that we are forming characters for eternity. Forming characters! Whose? our own or others? Both and in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence. Who is sufficient for the thought? Thousands of

my fellow-beings will yearly enter eternity with characters differing from those they would have carried thither had I never lived. The sunlight of that world will reveal my finger marks in their primary formations, and in their successive strata of thought and life.

INGRATITUDE.

Elihu Burritt.

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INGRATITUDE-Crimes attendant on. Where ingratitude, that sin of upstarts,

And vice of cowards, once takes root, a thousand

Base, grov'ling crimes cling round its monstrous growth,

Like ivy to old oaks, to hide its rottenness.
Themistocles.

INGRATITUDE-like the Cuckoo.
The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,
That it had its head bit off by its young.
Shakspeare.

INGRATITUDE-Extent of.

We seldom find people ungrateful as long

as we are in a condition to render them services. La Rochefoucauld.

INJURIES.

INGRATITUDE-No Laws against.

As there are no laws extant against ingratitude, so it is utterly impossible to contrive any that in all circumstances shall reach it. If it were actionable, there would not be courts enough in the whole world to try the causes in. There can be no setting a day for the requiting of benefits as for the payment of money; nor any estimate upon the benefits themselves; but the whole matter rests in the conscience of both parties: and then there are so many degrees of it, that the same rule will never serve all.

INGRATITUDE-to One's Self.

Seneca.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour, is unmerciful to himself.

Bunyan. INGRATITUDE-Rebellious Spirit of. To break thy faith,

And turn a rebel to so good a master,
Is an ingratitude unmatch'd on earth.
The first revolting angel's pride could only
Do more than thou hast done; thou copiest well,
And keep'st the black original in view. Rowe.
INGRATITUDE-Treason of.

All should unite to punish the ungrateful:
Ingratitude is treason to mankind. Thomson.

INGRATITUDE-Unkindness of.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,

Although thy breath be rude. Shakspeare.

INJURIES-Forgiveness of.

Tell us, ye men who are so jealous of right and of honour, who take sudden fire at every insult, and suffer the slightest imagination of another's contempt, or another's unfairness, to chase from your bosom every feeling of complacency; ye men, whom every fancied affront puts in such a turbulence of emotion, and in whom every fancied infringement stirs up the quick, and the resentful appetite for justice, how will you stand the rigorous application of that test by which the forgiven of God are ascertained, even that the spirit of forgiveness is in them, aud by which it will be pronounced, whether you are, indeed, the children of the Highest, and perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect? Chalmers.

INJURIES-Slighting of.

Slight small injuries, and they will become
Fuller.

INNOCENCE.

And news much older than their ale went round.
Imagination fondly stoops to trace
The parlour splendours of that festive place;
The white-wash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the
door;

The chest, contrived a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day;
The pictures placed for ornament and use,
The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose,
The hearth, except when winter chill'd the day,
With aspen boughs, and flowers, and fennel gay.
While broken teacups, wisely kept for show,
Ranged o'er the chimney, glisten'd in a row.
Goldsmith.

INNOCENCE-the Associate of Beauty.

The noble sisters are immortal; their lofty forms are unchangeable, and their countenances are still radiant with the light of Paradise.

Low lies that inn where nut-brown draughts inspired,

Where honest swains and smiling toil retired; Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,