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ANCHORS.

It rises, roars, rends all outright-O Vulcan, what a glow!

'Tis blinding white, 'tis blasting bright, the high sun shines not so!

The high sun sees not, on the earth, such fiery fearful show;

The roof-ribs swarth, the candent hearth, the ruddy lurid row

Of smiths that stand, an ardent band, like

men before the foe;

As quivering through his fleece of flame, the sailing monster slow

Sinks on the anvil-all about the faces fiery grow"Hurrah!" they shout, "leap out-leap out: bang, bang, the sledges go; Hurrah! the jetted lightnings are hissing high and low;

A hailing fount of fire is struck at every squashing blow;

The leathern mail rebounds the hail; the rattling cinders strow

The ground around; at every bound the sweltering fountains flow,

And thick and loud the swinking crowd, at every stroke, pant "Ho!

In livid and obdurate gloom, he darkens down at last,

A shapely one he is and strong as e'er from

cat was cast.

A trusted and trustworthy guard, if thou hadst life like me,

What pleasures would thy toils reward beneath the deep green sea! S. FERGUSON.

ANCHORS.-The Invention of

Some ascribe the invention of anchors to the Tyrrhenians; others to Midas, the son of Gordius. The most ancient are said to have been of stone, and sometimes of wood, to which a great quantity of lead was usually fixed. In some places baskets full of stones, and sacks filled with sand, were employed for the same use. All these were let down by cords into the sea, and by their weight stayed the course of the ship. Afterwards, anchors were made of iron, at first with only one fluke, but in a short time a second was added by Eupalamus, or Anacharis, the Scythian philospher.-LOARING.

ANECDOTE-Defined.

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.-DR. WEBSTER.

ANECDOTE.-Pleasure Derived from an

Those to whom any anecdote is old, will not be offended if it be well applied; and those to whom it may be new, will receive the double pleasure of novelty and illustration.-COLTON.

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ANECDOTE.-The Power of an

An anecdote, if well read or told, will prove more interesting and potential than the most eloquent utterance or the most elaborate argument. Large audiences have frequently been convulsed with laughter or bowed down with grief by its mighty influence.-DR. DAVIES.

ANECDOTES-Common Stock.

Anecdotes, like the air, are private property only so long as they are kept in ; the instant the one is told, or the other liberated, they are common stock.-COLTON.

ANGEL.-The Bright Beauteousness of

an

The beauteous creature came toward us, white-robed, with his face like the sparkling of the morning star.-DANTE.

ANGEL.-The Obedience of an

Just as "I love" is the passion of an angel's heart, "I serve" is the motto on an angel's brow.-E. DAVIES.

ANGEL.-The Understanding of an

Compare a Solomon, an Aristotle, or an Archimedes, to a child that newly begins to speak, and they do not more transcend such a one than the angelical understanding exceeds theirs even in its most sublime improvements and acquisitions.-Dr. South.

ANGEL-The Voice of an

The angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he awhile
Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd
to hear.-MILTON.

ANGELS.-Belief in the Existence of

Such a belief is in full keeping with our deepest and holiest feelings. We naturally long for the spiritual and heavenly; and this is the Divinity which speaks in our bosoms. In those calm and thoughtful moments which sometimes come over us, there is an impression made, all-pervasive in its influence-an indescribable consciousness which no subtle argument will dispel -that we have direct and unbroken fellowship with intelligences higher and better than we are; and this peculiar conviction obtains a greater depth and richer sweetness when the spirit feels herself alone, or when she sits amid the wreck of earthly things, and is loosened from the terrene and perishable. Every fetter is then shaken off, and for a while she dwells only with the invisible! Let the scorner remember that there is incomparably more truth in the

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intuitions of the heart than in the less trustworthy conclusions of the head. "Everyone knows," says a celebrated auther, "that there is such a thing as feeling a proposition to be true, though the understanding may be unable to master it. It is to our feeling, rather than to our thinking, that the sublimest arguments are primarily addresse-l. Where logic works out one truth, the heart has already realized twenty; because love, which is the heart's activity, is the profoundest and nimblest of philosophers. All things that live, and are loveliest, are born there." Hence this belief in angels had its first existence in the heart: after-experience did but intensify and strengthen it. It must, therefore, be true; or verily, there is no truth soever. -DR. DAVIES.

ANGELS.-The Creation of

Their life was ere the heavens were conceived,

The stars begotten, or the ages born.
P. J. BAILEY.

ANGELS.-Deliverances Wrought by

The great day alone will declare what deliverances these girded swordmen of the Captain of the Lord's hosts have wrought for each of His little ones in their journey through the wilderness.-A. M. STUART.

ANGELS.-The Disposition of the

It is pure benevolence. As the attributes of the Deity may be resolved into love, so the God-like virtues of these spirits refer to the same principle. Their task may sometimes be to break seals of judgment, to discharge vials of wrath, to ring out trumpet-peals of doom; but love, in all its degrees, constitutes their essence and pervades their being,-giving beauty to their .obes, and lustre to their crowns,-gilds the sphere in which they shine, and attunes the harmonies which they warble. -DR. R. W. HAMILTON.

ANGELS.-The Entertainment of

So down they sat, And to their viands fell; nor seemingly The angel, nor in mist-the common gloss Of theologians ;-but with keen despatch Of real hunger, and concoctive heat To transubstantiate: what redounds, transpires

Through spirits with ease; nor wonder; if by fire

Of sooty coal the empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold,
As from the mine.-MILTON.

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ANGELS.-The Faculties of the

Angels, in their several degrees of elevation above us, are endowed with more comprehensive faculties.-LOCKE.

ANGELS.-The Fallen

Heaven once suffered a vast and instantaneous depopulation. Spirits to whom it was the birthplace, who had known no inferior stage of being, created in purity and crowned with glory, of mighty power and intelligence, covered themselves with the guilt and shame of a most unnatural revolt. What a home was theirs! One element of blessedness filled it! Festal was their song, and jubilant was their triumph! It was their own habitation, but they left it. It was a chief position-the highest rank-a principality, but they did not keep it. They fought, but prevailed not, neither was their place found any more in heaven. *** There was a strange vacancy amidst those groves: untrodden paths and ungathered fruits. Diadems and lyres lay in neglected heaps. The brows which had worn those diadems were now scarred by the wrath-blast; the hands which had struck those lyres were now bound with everlasting chains.-DR. R. W. HAMILTON.

ANGELS.-The Guardianship of

Some will have it-that God allots two angels to one person,-one to guard and comfort him, the other to tempt and vex him. This was Plato's idea. He says:"Every individual is attended by a good and evil genius;" and the Pontificians borrowed it from him. But as "God cannot

be tempted with evil, so neither can He tempt any man,” nor appoint or allow any instrument of His to do so. Others, again, assert that He assigns a particular angel to each saint. This, indeed, was the current notion of ancient times. The Jewish Rabbins taught that Adam's guardian-angel was called-Raziel, Abraham's-Zachiel, Isaac's - Raphael, Jacob's - Peniel, and Moses's--Metration. One thing is certain -wherever a believer is found-whether in gorgeous palace, or humble cottage-in cold dungeon, or happy home-in suffering chamber, or crowded street-on restless ocean, or gloomy desert, there they throng to bless him. -E. DAVIES.

ANGELS.-The Ministration of the

And is there care in heaven? And is there love

In heavenly spirits to these creatures base,

That may compassion of their evils move?

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ANGELS.-The Visits of

When angels have come, they have spoken to a patriarch in the door of his tent to a distressed husbandman threshing his wheat under an oak-to persecuted apostles in prison. But can you think of an instance of divine or angelic visitation to a king on his throne-to a noble in his palace to a rich man surrounded with splendours-to a sage amid his books? An angel once came to a seer who was trusting to his own wisdom, and trying hard to outwit omniscience; but it was with a drawn sword; and the far-seeing prophet or necromancer owed his salvation to an ass! An angel once came to a king on a throne; but it was to smite him with worms, so that he gave up the ghost!— DR. RALEIGH.

ANGELS.-The Will and Work of

The will and work of angels are in perfect harmony; therefore an angel's duty is an angel's delight.-DR. GUTHRIE.

ANGER-Forbidden.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be.KEMPIS.

ANGER.-The Impotence of

Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies tre mind of man; it effects

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nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.-Clarendon. ANGER.-Intemperate

There is not in Nature A thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly,

As doth intemperate anger.-J. Webster.

ANGER.-Peace made in

He that makes his last peace with his Maker

In anger, anger is his peace eternally. ROWLEY.

ANGER.-Sinful

If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.H. W. BEECHER.

ANGER-Subdued.

Francis Xavier sometimes received in the prosecution of his zealous labours the most mortifying treatment. As he was preaching in one of the cities of Japan, some of the multitude made sport of him. One, more wanton than the rest, went to him while he addressed the people, feigning that he had something to communicate in private. Upon his approach, Xavier leaned his head to learn what he had to say. The scorner thus gained his object, which was to spit freely upon the face of the devoted missionary, and thus insult him in the most public manner. The father, without speaking a word, or making the least sign of anger or emotion, took out his handkerchief, wiped his face, and continued his discourse, as if nothing had occurred. By such a heroic control of his passions, the scorn of the audience was turned into admiration.-ARVINE.

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must not only bring an inquiring, observing wit, but also a large measure of hope and patience.-WALTON.

ANGLING.-The Delights of

Yes! dear to us that solitary trade, 'Mid vernal peace in peacefulness pursued Through rocky glen, wild moor, and hanging wood,

White-flowering meadow, and romantic glade!

The sweetest visions of our boyish years Come to our spirits with a murmuring tone Of running waters, -and one stream appears,

Remember'd all,-tree, willow, bank, and

stone !

How glad were we, when, after sunny showers,

Its voice came to us, issuing from the school!

How fled the vacant, solitary hours,
By dancing rivulet, or silent pool!

And still our souls retain, in manhood's prime,

The love of joys our childish years that blest ;

So now encircled by these hills sublime, We anglers, wandering with a tranquil breast,

Build in this happy vale a fairy bower of rest.-J. WILSON.

ANIMALCULA.-Wonders of the

In the clearest waters, and also in the strongly-troubled acid and salt-fluids of the various zones of the earth;-in springs, rivers, lakes, and seas;-in the internal moisture of living plants and animal bodies, and probably, at times, carried about in the vapour and dust of the whole atmosphere of the earth, exists a world, by the common senses of mankind unperceived, of very minute living beings, which have been called, for the last seventy years, infusoria. In the ordinary pursuits of life, this mysterious and infinite kingdom of living creatures is passed by without our interest in its wonders. But to the quiet observer how astonishing do these become, when he brings to his aid those optical powers by which his faculty of vision is so much strengthened! In every drop of dirty, stagnant water, we are generally, if not always, able to perceive, by means of the microscope, moving bodies, of from one eleven hundred and fiftieth to one twentyfive thousandth of an inch in diameter, and which often lie packed so closely together, that the space between each individual scarcely equals that of their diameter,PROF. PRICHARD.

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ANIMALS.-Cruelty to

One day I got off my horse to kill a rat, which I found on the road only half-killed, wishing to put the creature out of its misery. I am shocked at the thoughtless cruelty of many people; yet I did a thing soon after, that has given me considerable uneasiness, and for which I reproach myself bitterly. As I was riding homeward, I saw a waggon standing at a door, with three horses; the two foremost were eating their corn from bags at their noses; but I observed that the third had dropped his on the ground, and could not stoop to get any food. However, I rode on in absence, without assisting him. But when I had got nearly home, I remembered what I had observed in my absence of mind, and felt extremely hurt at my neglect; and would have ridden back had I not thought the waggoner might have come out of the house and relieved the horse. A man could not have had a better demand for getting off his horse, than for such an act of humanity. It is by absence of mind that we omit many duties.— R. CECIL.

ANIMALS.-The Effect of Music on

For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud,

Which is the hot condition of their blood; If they but hear perchance a trumpet

sound,

Or any air of music touch their ears, You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,

Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet

Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and floods,

Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of

rage,

But music for the time doth change his nature.-SHAKSPEARE.

ANIMALS.-Hurtful

Of wild creatures, a tyrant ; and of tame ones, a flatterer.-BIAS.

ANIMALS.-The Instincts of

All the wonderful instincts of animals, which, in my humble opinion, are proved beyond a doubt, and the belief in which is not decreased with the increase of science and investigation,-all these instincts are given them only for the combination or preservation of their species. If they had not these instincts, they would be swept off the earth in an instant. This bee, that understands architecture so well, is as stupid as a pebble-stone out of his own particular

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business of making honey; and, with all his talents, he only exists that boys may eat his labours, and poets sing about them. Ut pueris placeas et declamatio fias. A peasant girl of ten years old puts the whole republic to death with a little smoke; their palaces are turned into candles, and every clergyman's wife makes mead wine of the honey; and there is an end of the glory and wisdom of the bees! Whereas, man has talents that have no sort of reference to his existence; and without which his species might remain upon earth in the same safety as if they had them not. The bee works at that particular angle which saves most time and labour; and the boasted edifice he is constructing is only for his egg: but Somerset House, and Blenheim, and the Louvre, have nothing to do with breeding. Epic poems, and Apollo Belvideres, and Venus de Medicis, have nothing to do with living and eating. We might have discovered pig-nuts without the Royal Society, and gathered acorns without reasoning about curves of the ninth order. The immense superfluity of talent given to man, which has no bearing upon animal life, which has nothing to do with the mere preservation of existence, is one very distinguishing circumstance in this comparison. There is no other animal but man to whom mind appears to be given for any other purpose than the preservation of body.S. SMITH.

ANIMALS.-Instruction Derived from
The daily labours of the bee
Awake my soul to industry:
Who can observe the careful ant
And not provide for future want?
My dog-the trustiest of his kind-
With gratitude inflames my mind ;
I mark his true, his faithful way,
And in my service copy Tray:
In constancy and nuptial love
I learn my lesson from the dove:
The hen, who from the chilly air,
With pious wing, protects her care,
And every fowl that flies at large,
Instructs me in a parent's charge.-GAY.

ANIMALS.-The Treatment of

Poor beasts that every day we see o'erdriven,

Plodding along their path in patient pain;

No love of God for them, no hope of heaven,

Their sinking, flagging spirits to sustain! Poor beasts, we see them toiling on the road,

While threats and curses 'gainst them freely flow;

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Now, bowed beneath the cruel, heavy load, Now shrinking from the hasty, cow'rdly blow!

The dumb brute bears no malice in his heart,

For all the sufferings he undergoes: Ill-treated, yet he bravely plays his part,

And meekly bears his heritage of woes. I watched the two, the man that held the rein,

The bridled beast that at his bidding

ran,

And asked, which was the better of the twain,

The noble beast, or the ignoble man? Shall we, on whom a gracious God bestows Heaven's hope to cheer us in life's darkest hour,

Be more impatient of our daily woes
Than they who lack such hope, such
heart-sustaining power?-COLLEtt.
ANIMALS.-Uniform Actions in

The bees now build exactly as they built in the time of Homer; the bear is as ignorant of good manners as he was two thousand years past: and the baboon is still as unable to read and write, as persons of honour and quality were in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Yet it is not from any lack of inconveniences, nor any extraordinary contentedness with their situation, that any species of animals remains in such a state of sameness. The wolf often kills twenty times as much as he wants; and if he could hit upon any means of preserving his superfluous plunder, he would not perish of hunger as often as he does. To lay traps for the hunters, and to eat them as they were caught, would be far preferable to all those animals who are the cause and the contents of traps themselves.-S. SMITH.

ANIMALS.-War among

As for war, let the stags fighting with each other, and belling defiance across the hills, and all the other pugnacious male animals in the world testify, that without trumpet or drum, herald's flag, or champion's gage of battle, they can throw down and take up the gauntlet, announce a Casus Belli, and proclaim peace or war as perfectly, and with far less needless diplomacy than we. Take, however, as still more striking, that strange military proceeding, that Coup d'Etat of the bees, when they put their hives under martial law, and slaughter the drones. How the matter is managed, no one exactly knows, but there is plainly perfect concert among the slayers, and utter disconcert among the victims. What massacre of St. Bartholomew, Indian mutiny,

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