LOVING-KINDNESS. LUCK kissed it oftener than he did his living and LOYALTY-with Love. lawful wife and children-what is it worth now? Say, as the grim dean of St. Patrick wrote on his love-token, "Only a woman's Shirley Brooks. hair," LOVING-KINDNESS. Sweet loving-kindness! if thou shine, LOYALTY. One boon is all I crave. Good shepherd, speak thy wish.- 'Tis such as thou, Who from affection serve, and free-born zeal, LOYALTY-Faithfulness of. Mallet. I have served him: In this old body yet the marks remain proclaim'd His right, even in the face of rank rebellion. Otway. Though loyalty, well held, to fools does make The laws of friendship we ourselves create, I would serve my king, Serve him with all my fortune here at home, die for him. As every true-born subject ought. We, too, are friends to loyalty. Remember Is all we can call ours; the hearts of princes, LOYALTY AND PATRIOTISM. The most inviolable attachment to the laws of our country is everywhere acknowledged a capital virtue; and where the people are rot so happy as to have any legislature but a single person, the strictest loyalty is, in that case, the truest patriotism. Ha LUCK-Good and Bad. I may here, as well as anywhere, impart the secret of what is called good and bad luck. There are men who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan in the poverty of a wretched old age the misfortunes of their lives. Luck for ever runs against them, and for others. One, with s good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time a-fishing, when he should have been in the office. Another, with a good trade, perpetually burnt up his luck by his hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him. Another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence at everything but his business. Another who steadily followed his trade, as steadily followed his bottle. Another who was honest and constant to his work, erred by Cooper. his perpetual misjudgments-he lacked dis Otway. 1 LUCK. cretion. Hundreds lose their luck by indorsing, by sanguine speculations, by trusting fraudulent men, and by dishonest gains. A man never has good luck who has a bad wife. I never knew an early-rising, hardworking, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry, are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill-luck that fools ever dreamed of. But when I see a tatterdemalion creeping out of a grocery late in the forenoon, with his hands stuck into his pockets, the rim of his bat turned up, and the crown knocked in, I know he has had bad luck for the worst of all luck is to be a sluggard, a knave, or a tippler. Addison. LUST-Evil Effects of. As pale and wan as ashes was his looke, But when lust Spenser. So lost to reason, honour, common sense, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul As without love, that all-compelling fury, talk, Without debasing, thoughtless, blind, blind But most by lewd and lavish acts of sin, LUST-Transiency of. Short is the course of ev'ry lawless pleasure; LUST-Ungovernableness of. 1bid. love, The luxurious man oppresses that nature which should be the foundation of his joy, and, by false reasoning, he is made by this vice to believe, that because some ease and aliments are pleasant, therefore the more he takes of them the more he will be pleased. And the first proofs by which he is convinced that he is cheated in this, are those diseases into which those vices, when they are swelled, overflow and destroy that ground which gentle watering would have refreshed. Then he begins to understand that a mediocrity is the golden rule, and that proportion is to be observed in all the course of our life. Luxury makes a man so soft, that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Whereas the frugal and temperate man can, by fasting a LUXURY. till a convenient time, make any food pleasant. The luxurious must at last owe to this tem perance that health and ease which his false pleasures have robbed him of; he must abstain from his wines, feastings, and fruits, until temperance has cured him. And I have known many who, after they have been tortured by the tyranny of luxury, whilst they had riches in abundance to feed it, become very healthful and strong, when they fall into that poverty which they had so abhorred. Dr. Ferguson. Shall be his drink, and all th' ambrosial cates LUXURY-Enervating mfluence of. LUXURY-Slave of. It is a shame that man, that has the seeds I would have you proceed and seek for fame In brave exploits like those that snatch their honour Out of the talons of the Roman eagle, And dress yourself up like a pageant, forth And gen'ral victories as she had won; Besides small states and kingdoms ruin'd, Nabb. From pole to pole, by her ensnaring charms LUXURY. Were quite consumed: there lay imperial Rome, That vanquish'd all the world, by her o'er come: Fetter'd was the old Assyrian lion there; Lying supplies those who are addicted to it with a plausible apology for every crime, and with a supposed shelter from every punishment. It tempts them to rush into danger, from the mere expectation of impunity, and when practised with frequent success, it teaches them to confound the gradations of guilt, from the effects of which there is, in Cheir imaginations at least, one sure and common protection. It corrupts the early simplicity of youth; it blasts the fairest blossoms of genius; and will most assuredly counteract every effort by which we may hope to improve the talents, and mature the virtues, of those whom it infects. Parr. O thou eternal Mover of the heavens, him! So bad a death argues a monstrous life.- He was met even now, As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud, Ibid. He raves; his words are loose sense: So high he's mounted on his airy throne, own. Dryden. MADNESS. MADNESS-Sources of. "Envy, hatred, malice," and all other malignant passions, as sources of madness, scarcely need be touched upon; indeed, the intellect is half gone, before the individual can be brought to the indulgences of these corroding excitations. I am not a disciple of Owen. I verily think that life without passion were a sorry existence indeed, -a Chinese landscape, without proportion or perspective, light or shadows; but I am enthusiast enough to suppose, that a gradual improvement is coming to be effected upon society at large. by a growing conviction, that to envy, and hate, and destroy our fellow-men, is not only unchristian but unmeaning. MADNESS-Symptoms of. Uwins. My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, That I have utter'd: bring me to the test, MADNESS-Test of. What, I may be asked, is my test of insanity? Ibid. I have none. I know of no unerring, infallible, and safe rule or standard, applicable to all cases. The only logical and philosophic mode of procedure in doubtful cases of mental alienation, is to compare the mind of the lunatic at the period of his suspected insanity | with its prior natural and healthy condition; | in other words, to consider the intellect in relation to itself, and to no artificial á priori test. Each individual case must be viewed in its own relations. It is clear that such is the opinion of the judges, notwithstanding they maintained, as a test of responsibility, a knowledge of right and wrong. Can any other conclusion be drawn from the language used by the judges when propounding in the House of Lords their view of insanity in connection with crime? "The facts," they say, "of each particular case must of necessity present themselves with endless variety and with every shade of difference in each case; and it is their duty to declare the law upon each particular ! case, upon facts proved before them; and after hearing arguments of counsel thereon, they deem it at once impracticable, and at the same time dangerous to the administration of justice, if it were practicable, to attempt to make minute applications of the principles involved in the answers given by them to the questions proposed." This is a safe, judicious, and philosophic mode of investigating these painful cases; and if strictly adhered to, the ends of But now her grief has wore her into frenzy: Then life is on the wing; then most she sinks, water, That foams and hisses o'er the crackling wood, wasting. When most it swells. Smith. |