right only of innocence (if in any human being innocence can be found) but of him whose life is shortened by his crimes, the last duties are humility and felf-abafement.

Convicts Address, p. 18.

DEPENDENCE.

THERE is no state more contrary to the dignity of wisdom, than perpetual and unlimited dependence, in which the understanding lies uselefs, and every motion is received from external impulse. Reafon is the great diftinction of human nature, the faculty by which we approach to fome degree of afsociation with celestial intelligences; but as the excellence of every power appears only in its operations, not to have reason, and to have it useless and unemployed, is nearly the fame.

Rambler, v. 4, p. 12.

Wherever there is wealth, there will be dependence, and expectation; and wherever there is dependence, there will be an emulation of fervility.

Ditto, ditto, p. 158.

If it be unhappy to have one patron, what is his mifery who has many?

DIFFIDENCE.

THE pain of miscarriage is naturally proportionate to the defire of excellence; and therefore till men are hardened by long familiarity with reproach, or have attained, by frequent struggles, the art of fuppreffing their emotions, Diffidence is found the insuperable afssociate of understanding.

Rambler, v. 4, p. 186.

DELICACY.

HE that too much refines his delicacy,

will always endanger his quiet.

Ditto, ditto, p. 221.

DISAPPOINTMENT.

WE do not fo often disappoint others, as ourselves, as we not only think more highly than others of our own abilities, but allow ourselves to form hopes which we never communicate, and please our thoughts with employments which none ever will allot us, and with elevations to which we are never expected to rife.

Idler, v. 2, p. 203.

DISDISEASE.

IT may be faid that disease generally begins that equality which death completes. The distinctions which fet one man fo much above another, are very little perceived in the gloom of a fick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or inftruction from the wife, where all human glory is obliterated---The wit is clouded, the reafoner perplexed, and the hero fubdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings, finds nothing left him but the confciousness of innocence.

Rambler, v. 1, p. 290.

DISTRUST.

IT is impossible to fee the long fcrolls in which every contract is included, with all their appendages of feals and attestation, without wondering at the depravity of those beings who must be restrained from violation of promife by fuch formal and public evidences, and precluded from equivocation and fubterfuge by such punctilious minutenefs. Among all the fatires to which folly and wickedness have given occafion, none is equally fevere with a bond, or a fettlement.

DELAY.

THE folly of allowing ourselves to delay what we know cannot be finally escaped, is one of the general weaknesses, which in fpite of the inftruction of moralifts, and the remonftrances of reason, prevail to a greater, or less degree in every mind: Even they who most steadily withstand it, find it, if not the moft violent, the most pertinacious of their paffions, always renewing its attacks, and though often vanquished, never destroyed.

Rambler, v. 3, p. 170.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active profecution of whatever he is defirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can afcertain success; Death may intercept the swifteft career, but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking, has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.

Ditto, ditto, p. 173.

DUTY.

WHEN we act according to our duty, we

mit the event to him by whose laws our actions

actions are governed, and who will fuffer none to be finally punished for obedience. But when in profpect of fome good, whether natural, or moral, we break the rules prescribed to us, we withdraw from the direction of fuperior wisdom, and take all confequences upon ourselves.

Prince of Abyffinia, p. 203.

DILIGENCE.

DILIGENCE in employments of less consequence is the most successful introduction to greater enterprizes.

Life of Drake, p. 160.

E

ENVY.

HE that knows himself despised, will always be envious; and still more envious and malevolent, if he is condemned to live in the prefence of those who despise him.

Prince of Abyffinia, p. 86.

To fee the highest minds levelled with the meanest, may produce fome folace to the

fciousness of weakness, and fome mortifica