CARE-Origin of. Cares, both in kind and degree, are as innumerable as the sands of the seashore; and the fable which Hyginus has so pleasantly constructed on this subject, shows that man is their proper prey. "Care," says he, "crossing a dangerous brook, collected a mass of the dirty slime which deformed its banks, and moulded it into the image of an earthly being, which Jupiter, on passing by soon afterwards, touched with ethereal fire, and warmed into animation; but, being at a loss what name to give this new production, and disputing to whom of right it belonged, the matter was referred to the arbitrament of Saturn, who decreed that his name should be MAN, Homo ab humo, from the dirt of which he had been made; that care should entirely possess his mind while living; that Tellus, or the earth, should receive his body when dead; and that | Jupiter should dispose of his celestial essence according to his discretion. Thus was man made the property of care from his original formation; and discontent, the offspring of care, has ever since been his inseparable companion." CARE-Palliatives for. Burton. CARICATURE-Evil of Drawing. The great moral satirist, Hogarth, was once drawing in a room where many of his friends were assembled, and among them my mother. She was then a very young woman. As she stood by Hogarth, she expresed a wish to learn to draw caricature. "Alas, young lady," said Hogarth, "it is not a faculty to be envied ! Take my advice, and never draw caricature; by the long practice of it, I have lost the enjoyment of beauty. I never see a face but distorted: I never have the satisfaction to behold the human face divine." We may suppose that such language from Hogarth would come with great effect; his manner was very earnest, and the confession is well deserving of remembrance. Bishop Sandford. CASTE-Ill Effects of. Up to the present time, each caste among the Hindoos has not only been self-governed, and separately organized, but may be looked upon as a separate nation, unconnected by lation around it. Hence it is that there is no blood, pursuits, or sympathies, with the popusuch thing as Hindoo public opinion. So long as a man preserves the good opinion of his caste, he may commit the gravest crimes against the general public, the grossest perjuries or frauds that would demand exclusion from society; still, if his caste is uninjured by him, he is not deemed to bear any blot on his escutcheon. Perry. CASTLE-in Ruins. All ruin'd and wild is their roofless abode, And lonely the dark raven's sheltering tree; CHAMBERS IN THE TEMPLE-and their Furniture. With three of the four rooms we have no thing to do. Two were bed-rooms, and in the third and dreariest snuffled a restless boy, something proud of his dignity of clerk, something interested in the last number of the "Avenger of Blood," yet something pining for the undignified pitching and tossing, carried on by mere boys, who were not clerks, in a yard behind. Sometimes the clink of the copper and the instant clamour of the antagonists were too much for him, and he left the Avenger roasting his father's murderer, and went sulkily to the window to gaze on the plebeians, and to wish that he had not risen from the ranks. Then nobler thoughts came over him; he remembered his salary, and the occasional order for the Adelphi, from his good-natured masters, and he went back to the half-cooked assassin who was being so signally served out by filial retribution. But the principal chamber was a pleasant one, handsomely carpeted, pictured from various collections, and not without it3 easy chairs for its owners, and similar accommodation for any friend. Philip Arundel's tastes were a little in the way of the Epicurean's above-mentioned; but anything like fastidiousness had been corrected in Philip at College; and though there were | some engravings, statuettes, and knick-knacks which the elegant gentleman would not have disdained, they were interspersed with articles that he would have removed with a pair of tongs via the window. Pipes of all kinds hung about, or littered the mantelpiece, which was further encumbered with quaint tobacco jars, in which terriers' heads, and even the feminine form, were profaned into receptacles for the maligned weed. There was, against a wall, a noble stag's head; but on its branches hung a travelling cap, a shot flask, a Highland dirk, and other disfigurements, that made it resemble a stern Christmas tree. A Gothic bookcase was not ill furnished; but between a Lucretius of 1511 and the "Pickwick Papers" was a cigar cabinet; and the last volume of "Boswell" CHANCE-Argument against. Can that which is not, shape the things that Is chance omnipotent-resolve me why CHANCE-Characteristics of. Chance is but the pseudonyme of God for those particular cases which He does not choose to subscribe openly with His own signmanual. Coleridge. CHANCE-a Double. In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, CHANGE.' Ships, wealth, general confidence,- He counted them at break of day; Shakspeare. And when the sun set! where were they? CHANGE-not always Curative. Byron. unhappy, alas! to imagine that a deep and CHANGE-Rapid. Gather the rosebuds while ye may, And that same flower that blooms to-day, CHANGES-Bodily. Our bodies are at all times like the fire which was shown to the hero of the Pilgrim's Progress in the Interpreter's house, which had water poured on it on one side of the wall against which it blazed, and oil on the other. Here one tissue is burning like fuel, and there another is becoming the depository of combustible matter. We have, as it were, millions of microscopic wind-furnaces, converting into carbonic acid, water-vapour, and other products of combustion, all the combustible elements of the body; and millions of blastfurnaces, reducing the starch and sugar of the food, and the sulphates and phosphates of the body, into inflammable oils and other fuels, which are finally transferred to the windfurnaces, and burned there. Burning, and, what we must call in contradistinction, unburning, thus proceed together; the flame of life, like a blowpipe flame, exhibiting an oxidizing and a reducing action, at points not far distant from each other. Such is the human bodyever changing, ever abiding;-a temple always It is too common an opinion that change of complete, and yet always under repair, a manscene is the best restorative of an unhappy sion which quite contents its possessor, and mind. With some temperaments it may suc- yet has its plans and its materials altered each ceed, but, surely, not with all: and yet, how moment;-a machine which never stops workuniversally is the remedy suggested for almost ing, and yet is taken to pieces in the one twinkevery species of mental ailment, notwithstand-ling of an eye, and put together in the other; ing its being so seldom productive of the effects attributed to it. What lasting amelioration of our condition can be rationally expected from yielding to what is but the mere impulse of the moment-a sensation of restlessness, arising from our own ill-regulated feelings, and a vain desire to escape from ourselves and our own thoughts, which is mistaken for an aversion to the places and objects that have been the unconscious witnesses of our sufferings? From whatever source our uncomfortable feelings may arise, they would perhaps be alleviated, or subdued, by a little firmness and determination on our part; and this, if we chose, could be easily summoned to our aid at home, instead of setting out on our travels to seek for conso- The same stale viands served up o'er and o'er lation we know not where. And to the really | The stomach nauseates. -a cloth of gold, to which the needle is ever adding on one side of a line, and from which the scissors are ever cutting away on the other. Yes. Life, like Penelope of old, is ever weaving and unweaving the same web, whilst her grim suitors, Disease and Death, watch for her halting; only, for her is no Ulysses who will one day in triumph return. Dr. George Wilson. CHANGES-The Mind accustomed to. To the mind Which is itself, no changes bring surprise. Byron Wynne. CHANGES. CHANGES-Political. Changing hands without changing measures, is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet. Saville. CHANGES-Social and Political. The great trading companies were not instituted for selfish purposes, but to insure the consumer of manufactured articles that what he purchased was properly made and of a reasonable price. They determined prices, fixed wages, and arranged the rules of apprenticeship. But in time the companies lost their healthy vitality, and, with other relics of feudalism, were in the reign of Elizabeth hastening away. There were no longer tradesmen to be found in sufficient number who were possessed of the necessary probity; and it is impossible not to connect such a phenomenon with the deep melancholy which, in those years, settled down on Elizabeth herself. For, indeed, a change was coming upon the world, the meaning and direction of which even is still hidden from us-a change from era to The paths trodden by the footsteps of ages were broken up; old things were passing away, and the faith and the life of ten centuries were dissolving like a dream. Chivalry was dying; the abbey and the castle were soon together to crumble into ruins; and all the forms, desires, beliefs, convictions of the old world were passing away never to return. Α new continent had risen up beyond the western era. sea. The floor of heaven, inlaid with stars, had sunk back into an infinite abyss of immeasurable space; and the firm earth itself, unfixed from its foundations, was seen to be but a small atom in the awful vastness of the universe. In the fabric of habit in which they had so laboriously built for themselves, mankind were to remain no longer. And now it is all gone-like an unsubstantial pageant faded; and between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery which the prose of the historian will never adequately bridge. They cannot come to us, and our imagination can but feebly penetrate to them. Only among the aisles of the cathedrals, only as we gaze upon their silent figures sleeping on their tombs, some faint conceptions float before us of what these men were when they were alive; and perhaps in the sound of church bells, that peculiar creation of medieval age, which falls upon the ear like the echo of a vanished world. Froude. CHAOS-Description of. Before their eyes in sudden view appear CHARACTER. Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost; where eldest And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Swarm populous: unnumber'd as the sands He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits, CHARACTER-Acquirement of a. Milton. Decision of character is one of the most important of human qualities, philosophically considered. Speculation, knowledge, is not the chief end of man; it is action. We may, by a fine education, learn to think most correctly, and talk most beautifully; but when it comes to action, if we are weak and undecided, we are of all beings the most wretched. All man- ! kind feel themselves weak, beset with infirmities, and surrounded with dangers; the acutest minds are the most conscious of difficulties and dangers. They want, above all things, a leader with that boldness, decision, and CHARACTER-Value of. A good name is better than precious ointment. Character is a perfectly educated will. Novalis. CHARACTER (the Female)-Influence of. If mankind had been perpetuated without their milder companions, a strong and iron race would have inhabited the earth. There is something in the active spirits and powers of the manly portion of our common species which loves difficulties, enterprise, exertion, dangers, and personal display. These qualities and propensities would too often animate selflove and selfishness into continual strife, civil discord, and battle, if no softer and kinder companions were about such beings, to occupy some portion of their thoughts and attentions, to create and cherish milder and sweeter feelings, and to provide for them the more soothing happiness of a quiet home and a domestic life. Tenderness, sympathy, good humour, smiles, gentleness, benignity, and affection, can diffuse pleasures more grateful than those of irritation and contest, and awaken the sensibilities that most favour intellectual and moral cultivation. CHARITY-Attributes of. Turner. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. St. Paul. It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned. If there is any good in them, it appears then or never. Even wolves and tigers, when gorged with their prey, are safe and gentle. It is at such times that noble minds give all the reins to their good nature. They indulge their genius even to intemperance, in kindness to the afflicted, in generosity to the conquered; forbearing insults, forgiving injuries, overpaying benefits. Full of dignity themselves, they respect dig- Charity! decent, modest, easy, kind, nity in all, but they feel it sacred to the unSoftens the high, and rears the abject mind; happy. But it is then, and basking in the sun- Knows with just reins and gentle hand to guide shine of unmerited fortune, that low, sordid, Betwixt vile shame and arbitrary pride. ingenerous, and reptile souls swell with their Not soon provoked, she easily forgives, boarded poisons; it is then that they display And much she suffers as she much believes. their odious splendour, and shine out in the Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; fall lustre of their native villainy and base-She builds our quiet, as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven. Each other gift which God on man bestows, Its proper bounds and due restriction knows; To one fixed purpose dedicates its power, And finishing its act, exists no more. cess. CHARACTER Undeveloped. Burke. Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. Sir J. Stevens. |