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justice would be secured, and the requirements MALICE-when Wounding. of science satisfied. Dr. Forbes Winslow.

Insanity is, in a person awake, a false or mistaken judgment of things which, as occurring most frequently in life, are those about which the generality of men form the same judgment, and particularly is the malady evidenced when the judgment of the individual is very different from what he had himself before usually formed of the same object. Dr. Cullen.

MAGICIAN-Power of the.

If by your art you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them. Shakspeare.

MAGICIANS-Spells of.

I oft have heard, but ne'er believed till now, There are, who can by potent magic spells Bend to their crooked purpose nature's laws, hot the fair moon from her resplendent orb, Ed whirling planets stop their destined course, And through the yawning earth from Stygian gloom,

Call up the meagre ghost to walks of light.

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Massinger.

There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word-a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at. Sterne.

MALIGNITY-Evil Influence of.

There is no benefit so large but malignity will still lessen it: none so narrow which a good interpretation will not enlarge. No man can ever be grateful that views a benefit on the wrong side, or takes a good office by the wrong handle. The avaricious man is naturally ungrateful, for he never thinks he has enough; but, without considering what he has, only minds what he covets. Some pretend want of power to make a competent return, and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one. Seneca.

MAN-Wonderful Anatomy of.

Whoever considers the study of anatomy, I believe, will never be an atheist; the frame of

man's body, and coherence of his parts, being so strange and paradoxical, that I hold it to be the greatest miracle of nature. Lord Herbert.

MAN-Assumptions of.

O, but man, proud man! Dress'd in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence,-like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep. Shakspeare.

MAN-a Wonderful Being.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprehension, how like a god; the beauty of the world-the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Ibid.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august,
How complicate, how wonderful, is man!
How passing wonder He, who made him such?
Who centred in our make such strange
extremes!

From different natures marvellously mix'd,
Connection exquisite of distant worlds!
Distinguish'd link in being's endless chain!
Midway from nothing to the Deity!

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The essence of our being, the mystery in us that calls itself "I,"-ab, what words have we for such things?-is a breath of Heaven; the Highest Being reveals himself in man. This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed? "There

is but one temple in the universe," says the devout Novalis, "and that is the body of man. Nothing is holier than that high form. Bending before men is a reverence done to this revelation in the flesh. We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!" This sounds much like a mere flourish of rhetoric; but it is not so. If well meditated, it will turn out to be a scientific fact; the expression, in such words as can be had, of the actual truth of the thing. We are the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God. We cannot understand it, we know not how to speak of it; but we may feel and know, if we like, that it is verily so. Carlyle.

MAN-like a Book.

Man is like a book; his birth is the Titlepage of the book; his baptisme is the Epistle Dedicatory; his groans and crying, are the Epistle to the Reader; his infancy, and childhood, are the Argument, or Contents of the whole ensuing Treatise; his life, and actions, are the Subject, or Matter of the book; his sins, and errours of his life, are the Errata, or faults escaped in the printing; and his Repentance is the Correction of them. Now amongst books (we know) some are large Volumes, in Folio; some little ones, in Decimo sexto; and some are of other sizes, in Octavo, or Quarto. Again, some of these are fairer bound, some in a plainer manner; some are bound in strong velame, or leather, and some in thin paper. Some again have Piety for their Subject, and treat of Godlinesse; others are prophane Pamphlets, full of wantonnesse, and folly but in the last page of every one of them, there stands a word, which is FINIS, implying the end of all. Richard Gove, 1652.

MAN.

MAN-like a Book.

Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. W. Ellery Channing. |

MAN-Moral Characteristics of.

Every man is a missionary now and for ever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot, radiating bis dark influence outward to the very circumference of society; or he may be a blessing, spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world: but a blank he cannot be. There are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters. We are either the sower that sows and corrupts, or the light that splendidly illuminates, and the salt that silently operates; but being dead or alive, every man speaks. Chalmers.

MAN-Circumstances attendant on.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else. Thus it is that, in the same family, in the same circumstances, one man rears a stately edifice, while his brother, vacillating and incompetent, lives for ever amid ruins; the block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Carlyle. MAN-affected by Climate.

To understand any people thoroughly, we must know something of the country in which they live, or at least of that part inhabited by the dominant race. The insects partake the colour of the trees they dwell upon, and man is not less affected by the place of his habi tation on the earth. Stern, arid, lofty, dignified, and isolated from the men of other nations, the Spaniard was probably the most remarkable European man in the sixteenth century. He had a clearness of conviction, and a resoluteness of purpose, which resembled the sharp atmosphere in which he had lived, that left no undecided outlines; and as, in the landscape, all variety was amply com pensated for, by the vast extent of one solemn colour, so, in the Spaniard's character, there were one or two deep tints of love, of loyalty, and of religion, which might render it fervid, bigoted, and ferocious, but never left it small, feeble, or unmeaning.

Helps.

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MAN-fitted for all Climates.

The human animal is the only one which is naked, and the only one which can clothe itself. This is one of the properties which renders him an animal of all climates, and of all seasons. He can adapt the warmth or Eghtness of his covering, to the temperature of his habitation. Had he been born with a deece upon his back, although he might have bean comforted by its warmth in high latitudes, it would have oppressed him by its weight and heat, as the species spread towards the equator. Paley.

MAN-Control of.
The bravest trophy ever man obtain'd,
Is that which o'er himself, himself hath gain'd.
Earl of Sterling.
MAN-Counterfeit of a.
He is but the counterfeit of a man, who
bath not the life of a man.
Shakspeare.

MAN-the Subject of Circumstance.

It is a painful fact, but there is no denying it, the mass are the tools of circumstance; thistie-down on the breeze, straw on the river, their course is shaped for them by the currents and eddies of the stream of life; but only in proportion as they are things, not men and women. Man was meant to be not the slave, but the master, of circumstance; and in proportion as he recovers his humanity, in every sense of the great obsolete word,-in proportion as he gets back the spirit of manliness, which is self-sacrifice, affection, loyalty to an idea beyond himself, a God above himself, so far will he rise above circumstances, and wield them at his will. Kingsley.

MAN-Creation of.

The study of life, palæontologically regarded, Decessarily involves the creation and first appearance of man on the globe; and on this subject much discussion has taken place, unprofitable alike to science and to the cause of Christian theology. So far as geological evidence goes, we have no trace of man or of his works till we arrive at the superficial accumulations-the coral conglomerates, the bone breccias, the cave-deposits, and the peat | mosses of the current epoch. It is true, that so far as the earlier formations are concerned,

the evidence is purely negative; but taking into account all that paleontology has revealed touching the other families of animated nature, the fair assumption is that man was not called into being till the commencement of the current geological era, and about the time when in the northern hemisphere the sea and land received their present configuration, and were peopled by those genera and species

which (with a few local removals, and still fewer extinctions) yet adorn their forests and inhabit their land and waters. David Page. MAN-The Dangerous.

I do not know the man I should avoid
So soon as that spare
He reads much;

He is a great observer, and he looks
Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no
plays,

As thou dost; he hears no music:
Seldom he smiles; and smiles in such a sort,
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his spirit
That could be mov'd to smile at anything.
Such men as he be never at heart's ease,
Whiles they behold a greater than themselves;
And therefore are they very dangerous.
I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd,
Than what I fear.

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Come on my right hand, for this ear is deaf,
And tell me truly what thou think'st of him.
Shakspeare.

MAN-the Framer of his own Destiny.
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Command all light, all influence, all fate,
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Man upon man depends, and, break the chain,
He soon returns to savage life again;
On either hand a social tribe he sees,
By those assisted, and assisting these;
While to the general welfare all belong-
The high in power, the low in numbers strong,

MAN-Disinterestedness of.

The MAN whom I

Crabbe.

Consider as deserving of the name,
Is one whose thoughts and actions are for
others,
Not for himself alone; whose lofty aim,
Adopted on just principles, is ne'er
Abandoned, while or earth or heaven afford
The means of its accomplishment. He is
One who seeks not by any specious road
To raise an indirect advantage, or
Takes a wrong path to gain a real good
purpose;

Such were the man for whom a woman's heart
Should beat with constant truth while he exists,
And break when he expires! Blanchard.
MAN-Divinity of.

Recent, and blanching on the sunny rock,
Iv'ry with sapphires interspersed explains
How white his hands, how blue his manly
veins !

MAN.

Columns of polish'd marble, firmly set
On golden bases, are his legs and feet.
His stature all majestic, all divine,
Straight as the palm-tree, strong as is the pine.
Saffron and myrrh are in his garments shed,
And everlasting sweets bloom round his head.
Prior.

MAN-Duty of.

A good man will see his duty with only a moderate share of casuistical skill; but into a perverse heart this sort of wisdom enters not. Were men as much afraid of sin as they are of danger, there would be few occasions of consulting our casuists. Baker.

MAN-Happy End of.

A wise man shall not be deprived of pleasure even when death shall summons him; forasmuch as he has attained the delightful end of the best life-departing like a guest full and well satisfied: having received life upon trust, and duly discharged that office, he acquits himself at departing. Epicurus.

MAN-Enthusiasm of.

It is not to taste sweet things, but to do

noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a god-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest daydrudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations. Not happiness, but something higher : one secs this even in the frivolous classes, with their "point of honour" and the like. Not by flattering our appetites; no, by awakening the heroic that slumbers in every heart, can any religion gain followers. Carlyle.

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cannot befall him here; that, except by sloth and cowardly falsity, evil is not possible here. The first symptom of such a man is not that he resists and rebels, but that he obeys. As poor Henry Marten wrote in Chepstow Castle long ago,

"Reader, if thou an oft-told tale wilt trust,

Thou'lt gladly do and suffer what thou must.” Gladly: he that will go gladly to his labour and his suffering, it is to him alone that the upper powers are favourable and the field of time will yield fruit. 'An oft-told tale," friend Harry; all the noble of this world have known it, and in various dialects have striven to let us know it! The essence of all "religion" that was and that will be, is to make men free. Who is he that, in this life-pilgrimage, will consecrate himself, at all hazards, to obey God and God's servants, and to disobey the devi and his? With pious valour, this free mar walks through the roaring tumults invincibly, the way whither he is bound. To him in the waste Saharas, through the grim solitudes peopled by galvanized corpses and doleful creatures, there is a lodestar; and his path, whatever those of others be, is towards the Eternal. A man well worth consulting, and taking the vote of about matters temporal; and, properly, the only kind of man. Carlyle. MAN-the Image of God.

It is only our mortal duration that we measure by visible and measurable objects; and there is nothing mournful in the conteur plation for one who knows that the Creator made him to be the image of his own eternity, and who feels, that in the desire for immortality he has sure proof of his capacity for it.

MAN-A Good.

Southey.

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indeed, to pass these by as of but little worth. But as in the outward creation, so in the soul, the common is the most precious. Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the light which the sun sends into our windows, which he pours freely, impartially, over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky; and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few. W. Ellery Channing.

MAN-Greatness of

The greatest man is he who chooses right

with the most invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens

cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under meuaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering. Seneca.

A great man is affable in his converse, generous in his temper, and immovable in what he has maturely resolved upon; and as prosperity does not make him haughty and imperious, so neither does adversity sink him into meanness and dejection; for if ever he shows more spirit than ordinary, it is when he is ill-used, and the world frowns upon him; in short, he is equally removed from the extremes of servility and pride, and scorns either to trample upon a worm, or sneak to an emperor. Collier.

He was not born to shame; Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit; For 'tis a throne where honour may be crown'd

Sole monarch of the universal earth.

Shakspeare.

If I am asked who is the greatest man? I answer the best; and if I am required to say who is the best? I reply he that has deserved most of his fellow-creatures. Whether we deserve better of mankind by the cultivation of letters, by obscure and inglorious attainments, by intellectual pursuits calculated rather to amuse than inform, than by strenuous exertions in speaking and acting, let those consider who bury themselves in studies unproductive of any benefit to their country or fellow-citizens. I think not.

MAN-Growth of.

Sir William Jones.

Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs,

And full as craving too, and full as vain;
And yet the soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward,
To the world's open view.
Dryden.
MAN-The Happy.

He is the happy man, whose life e'en now
Shows somewhat of that happier life to come;
Who, doom'd to an obscure and tranquil state,
Is pleased with it, and, were he free to choose,
Would make his fate his choice; whom peace,
the fruit

Of virtue, and whom virtue, fruit of faith,
Content indeed to sojourn while he must
Prepare for happiness; bespeak him one
The world o'erlooks him in her busy search
Below the skies, but having there his home.
And, occupied as earnestly as she,
Of objects more illustrious in her view;
Though more sublimely, he o'erlooks the

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Born to no pride, inheriting no strife,
Stranger to civil and religious rage,
Nor marrying discord in a noble wife,
The good man walk'd innoxious through his
age.

No courts he saw, no suits would ever try,
Nor dared an oath, nor hazarded a lie.
Unlearn'd, he knew no schoolman's subtle art,
No language but the language of the heart.
By nature honest, by experience wise;
Healthy by temperance and by exercise;
His life though long, to sickness pass'd
unknown,

His death was instant, and without a groan.
O grant me thus to live, and thus to die!
Who sprung from kings shall know less joy
Pope.

than I.

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