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RICHES-not Wanting.

That's true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches. Chrysostom.

RICHES AND AVARICE.

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satisfy the infinite cravings of man for action. According to our present modes of education, how many of our daughters are subject to an ennui-a misery unknown to the poor, and more intolerable than the weariness of excessive toil. The idle young man, spending the day

The diff'rence 'twixt the covetous and prodigal ! in exhibiting his person in the street, ought
The covetous man never has money,
And the prodigal will have none shortly.

Ben Jonson.
RICH AND POOR-Counsels to the.
Rich, be not exalted; poor, be not dejected.
Cleobulus.
RICH AND POOR-How to Rule the.
Those who are poor are sufficiently chastised
by their poverty, and a sovereign's whole mind
should be applied to relieve and protect them;
their gratitude and support is certain, because
they must always have so many despots to
torment them, that it is their nature, as men.
to cling steadily to the most powerful, while
they are sure of his will and power to pro-
tect them. On the other hand, we see that
nobles are generally bad; the rich have seldom
any feelings of kindness, but have strong
feelings of fear, and should treat the rich
with severe watchfulness and rigour, and take
every opportunity of striking at their purses.
Let him make them poor, and he will make
them grateful. Exalt the poor and abase the
rich; the nearer you can bring them to a level
the more easily can they be ruled; for it is
clear that the more equally a pair of scales is
| balanced, the less is the weight required to
give the preponderance to either side.
Sir Charles Napier.

RICHES AND POVERTY.

When I compare together different classes, as existing at this moment in the civilized world, I cannot think the difference between the rich and the poor, in regard to mere physical suffering, so great as is sometimes imagined. That some of the indigent among us die of scanty food, is undoubtedly true; but vastly more in this community die from eating too much than from eating too little, vastly more from excess than starvation.

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as to clothing, many shiver from want of defence against the cold; but there is vastly more suffering among the rich from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than among the poor from deficiency of raiment. Our daughters are oftener brought to the grave by their rich attire, than our beggars by their nakedness. So the poor are often overworked; but they suffer less than many among the rich, who have no work to do, no interesting object to fill up life, to

not to excite the envy of the over-tasked poor; and this cumberer of the ground is found exclusively among the rich. W. Ellery Channing.

Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion, than our neighbours; whereby we are enabled to procure to ourselves a greater plenty of the conveniences of life than comes within their reach, who, sharing the gold and silver of the world in a less proportion, want the means of plenty and power, and so are poorer. Locke.

RIDICULE-Dangers of.

'Tis dangerous, too, in these licentious times,
Howe'er severe the smile, to sport with crimes;
Vices, when ridiculed, experience says,
First lose that horror which they ought to
raise,

Grow by degrees approved, and almost aim at
praise.
Whitehead.

RIGHT-is Might.

A man is right and invincible, virtuous, and on the road towards sure conquest, precisely while he joins himself to the great deep law of the world, in spite of all superficial laws, temporary appearances, profit-and-loss calculation; he is victorious while he co-operates with that great central law-not victorious otherwise; and surely his first chance of cooperating with it, or getting into the course of it, is to know with his own soul that it is that it is good, and alone good. This is the soul of Islam; it is properly the soul of Christianity; for Islam is definable as a confused form of

Christianity; had Christianity not been, neither had it been. Christianity also commands us, before all, to be resigned to God. We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing; that the worst and cruellest to our eyes is not what it seems; that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise-God is great! Though he slay me, yet will I trust in Him." Islam means in its way denial of self-annihilation of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that Heaven has revealed to our earth.

Carlyle.

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RIGHT-Practicability of.

It is common for men to say that such and such things are perfectly right, very desirable -but, unfortunately, they are not practicable. Oh, no. Those things which are not practicable, are not desirable. There is nothing really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-directed pursuit. There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and moral world. If we cry like children for the moon, like children we must

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Streams and rivers-in fact, all watercurrents-act chiefly in a mechanical way, and their influence depends partly on the nature of the rocks over which they run, the rapidity of their flow, and the size or volume of water. If the rocks over which they pass be of a soft or friable nature, they soon cut out channels, and transport the eroded material in the state

ROGUERY.

of mud, sand, or gravel, to the lower level of some lake, to their estuaries, or to the bed of the ocean. Their cutting as well as transporting power is greatly aided by the rapidity of their currents; hence the power of mountaintorrents compared with the quiet and sluggish flow of the lowland river. It has been calcu

lated, for example, that a velocity of three inches per second will tear up fine clay, that six inches will lift fine sand, eight inches sand coarse as linseed, and twelve inches fine gravel; while it requires a velocity of twentyfour inches per second to roll along rounded pebbles an inch in diameter, and thirty-six inches per second to sweep angular stones of the size of a hen's egg. During periodical rains and landfloods, the currents of rivers | often greatly exceed this velocity; hence the tearing up of old deposits of gravel, the sweeping away of bridges, and the transport of blocks many tons in weight-an operation greatly facilitated by the fact that stones of ordinary specific gravity (from 2.5 to 2·8) lose more than a third of their weight by being immersed in water. David Page.

RIVULET-Music of the.

While we view, Amid the noon-tide walk, a limpid rill Gush through the tickling herbage, to the thirst Of summer yielding the delicious draught Of cool refreshment; o'er the mossy brink Shines not the surface clearer, and the waves With sweeter music murmur as they flow. ROBBERS-Character of.

Akenside.

They were, in truth, great rascals, and belonged to that class of people who find things before they are lost.

ROBIN-a Domestic Visitant.

Grimm.

The fowls of heaven, Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around The winnowing store, and claim the little boon One alone, Which Providence assigns them. The redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats, then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then, hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is!! Till, more familiar grown, the table crumbs Thomson. Attract his slender feet. ROGUERY-Unhappiness of.

After long experience of the world, I affirm, before God, I never knew a rogue who was not Junius. unhappy.

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Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of Earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders rise; Upon which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. Shakspeare.

Hosts raised by fear, and phantoms of a day; Astrologers, that future fates foreshow; Projectors, quacks, and lawyers not a few; And priests and party-zealots, numerous bands,

With home-born lies, or tales from foreign lands;

Each talk'd aloud, or in some secret place,
And wild impatience stared in every face.
The flying rumours gather'd as they roll'd,-
Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;
And all who heard it made enlargements too;
In every ear it spread, on every tongue it
grew.

Thus flying east and west, and north and south, News travell'd with increase from mouth to mouth :

So from a spark, that, kindled first by chance, With gathering force the quick'ning flames advance,

Till to the clouds their curling heads aspire, And towers and temples sink in floods of fire. Pope.

RUMOUR-an Evil Messenger.

Rumour was the messenger

Of defamation, and so swift, that none
Could be the first to tell an evil tale. Pollok.

RUMOURS-Spreading.

The art of spreading rumours may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed. John Newton.

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SABBATH.

SABBATH-Hallowing of the.

Now on earth the seventh

Evning arose in Eden, for the sun
Was set, and twilight from the east came on,
Forerunning night; when at the holy mount
Of heaven's high-seated top, th' imperial throne
Of Godhead, fix'd for ever firm and sure,
The Filial Power arrived, and sat him down
With his Great Father, for He also went
Invisible yet staid (such privilege
Hath Omnipresence), and the work ordain'd,
Author and End of all things; and from work
Now resting, bless'd and hallow'd the seventh
day.
Milton.

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The importance of the religious observance of the Sabbath is seldom sufficiently estimated. The violation of this duty by the young is one of the most decided marks of incipient moral degeneracy. Religious restraint is fast losing its hold upon that young man, who, having been educated in the fear of God, begins to spend the Sabbath in idleness or in amuse- ! ment. And so also of communities. The desecration of the Sabbath is one of those evident indications of that criminal recklessness, that insane love of pleasure, and that subjection to the government of appetite and passion, which forebodes that the "beginning of the end" of social happiness, and of true national prosperity, has arrived.

Hence we see how imperative is the duty of parents, and of legislators, on this subject. The head of every family is obliged, by the command of God, not only to honour this day himself, but to use all the means in his power to secure the observance of it by all those committed to his charge. He is thus not only promoting his own, but his children's happiness; for nothing is a more sure antagonist force to all the allurements of vice, as nothing tends more strongly to fix in the minds of the young a conviction of the existence and attributes of God, than the solemn keeping of this day. And hence, also, legislators are false to their trust, who, either by the enactment of laws, or by their example, diminish, in the least degree, in the minds of a people, the reverence due to that day which God has set apart for Himself. Wayland

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Hark to the sailors' shouts the rocks rebound,
Thundering in echoes to the joyful sound!
Long have they voyaged o'er the distant seas,
And what a heart delight they feel at last,
So many toils so many dangers past,
To view the port desir'd, he only knows
Who in the stormy deep for many a day
Hath tost, aweary of the ocean way,
And watched all anxious every wind that blows.
Southey.

SALUTATION-Importance of.

As a man's salutation, so is the total of his character: in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation. Lavater.

SALUTATION-Various Modes of.

Of all the different modes of salutation in various countries, there is none so graceful as

that which prevails in Syria. At New Guinea the fashion is certainly picturesque; for they place upon their hands the leaves of trees as symbols of peace and friendship. An Ethiopian takes the robe of another and ties it about his own waist, leaving his friend partially naked. In a cold climate this would not be very agreeable. Sometimes it is usual for persons to place themselves naked before those whom they salute as a sign of humility. This custom was put in practice before Sir Joseph Banks when he received the visit of two Otaheitan females. The inhabitants of the Philippine Islands take the hand or foot of him they salute, and gently rub their face with it, which is at all events more agreeable than the salute of the laplanders, who have a habit of rubbing noses, applying their own proboscis with some degree of force to that of the person they desire to salute. The salute with which you are greeted in Syria is at once most graceful and flattering; the hand is raised with a quick but gentle motion, to the heart, to the lips, and to the head, to intimate that the person saluting is willing to serve you, to think for you, to speak for you, and to act for you.

Farley.
SALVATION-Simplicity of the Plan of.
Oh how unlike the complex works of man,
Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan:
No meretricious graces to beguile,
No clustering ornaments to clog the pile:
From ostentation as from weakness free;
It stands like the cerulean arch we see,
Majestic in its own simplicity,

Inscribed above the portal, from afar,
Conspicuous as the brightness of a star,
Legible only by the light they give,
Stand the soul-quickening words-Believe and
live.
Cowper.

SARCASM-Language of.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. Carlyle.

SARDONIC MAN.

There was a laughing devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope, withering, fled, and Mercy sigh'd fare-
well!
Byron.

SATAN-Ambition of.

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Milton.

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