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are letters, and words, and voices, vehicles,
and missionaries; but they need to be inter-
preted in the right spirit. We must read and
listen for them, and endeavour to understand
and profit by them. And when we look
around us upon earth, we must not forget to
look upward to heaven: "Those who can see
God in everything," writes a popular author,
"are sure to be good in everything." We
may add with truth, that they are also sure to
see beauty in everything and everywhere.
When we are at peace with ourselves and the
world, it is as though we gazed upon outward
things through a golden-tinted glass, and saw
a glory resting upon them all. We know that
it cannot be long thus: sin and sorrow, and
blinding tears, will dim the mirror of our
inmost thoughts; but we must pray and look
again, and by-and-by the cloud will pass
away. There is beauty everywhere; but it
requires to be sought, and the seeker after it
is sure to find it it may be in some out-of-
the-way place, where no one else would think
of looking. Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she
hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf,
or creeps
into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-
seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some
ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young
face. Sometimes she takes the form of a
white cloud, and goes dancing over the green
fields, or the deep blue sea, where her misty
form, marked out in a momentary darkness,
looks like the passing shadow of an angel's
wings. Beauty is a coquette, and weaves her-
self a robe of various hues, according to the
season; and it is hard to say which is the
most becoming of all the attitudes and shades
she is wont to assume, as she traces her linea-
ments on the broad canvass of nature. Sala.
BED-CHAMBER-Requisites of the.

Sweet pillows, sweetest bed;
A chamber deaf to noise, and blind to light;
A rosy garland, and a weary head.

Sir Philip Sidney. BED-CHAMBERS-Hints concerning. Their small size and their lowness render them very insalubrious; and the case is rendered worse by close windows and thick curtains and hangings, with which the beds are often so carefully surrounded as to prevent the possibility of the air being renewed. The consequence is, that we are breathing vitiated air during the greater part of the night; that is, during more than a third part of our lives: and thus the period of repose, which is necessary for the renovation of our mental and bodily vigour, becomes a source of disease. Sleep, under such circumstances, is very often

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disturbed, and always much less refreshing than when enjoyed in a well-ventilated apartment; it often happens, indeed, that such repose, instead of being followed by renovated strength and activity, is succeeded by a degree of heaviness and languor which is not overcome till the person has been some time in a purer air. Nor is this the only evil arising from sleeping in ill-ventilated apartments. When it is known that the blood undergoes most important changes in its circulation through the lungs, by means of the air which we breathe, and that these vital changes can only be effected by the respiration of pure air, it will be easily understood how the healthy functions of the lungs must be impeded by inhaling, for many successive hours, the vitiated air of our bed-rooms, and how the health must be as effectually destroyed by respiring impure air, as by living on unwholesome or innutritious food. In the case of children and young persons predisposed to consumption, it is of still more urgent consequence that they should breathe pure air by night as well as by day, by securing a continuous renewal of the air in their bed-rooms, nurseries, schools, &c. Let a mother, who has been made anxious by the sickly looks of her children, go from pure air into their bedroom in the morning, before a door cr window has been opened, and remark the state of the atmosphere, the close, oppressive, and often foetid odour of the room, and she may cease to wonder at the pale, sickly aspect of her children. Let her pay a similar visit, some time after means have been taken, by the chimney ventilator or otherways, to secure a full supply, and continual renewal, of the air in the bed-rooms during the night, and she will be able to account for the more healthy appearance of her children, which is sure to be the consequence of supplying them with pure air to breathe. Sir James Clark.

BED-TIME-A Season of Rest.

In due season he betakes himself to his rest; he [the Christian] presumes not to alter the ordinance of day and night, nor dare confound, where distinctions are made by his Maker. Bishop Hall.

There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste Shakspeare.

these times.

BEE-Description of the.
Burly, dozing, humble bee!
Where thou art is clime for me.
Let them sail for Porto Rique,
Far-off heats through seas to seek,

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Many-coloured, sunshine-loving, spring-betokening bee!

Yellow bee, so mad for love of early-blooming flowers!

Till thy waxen cells be full, fair fall thy work
and thee,

Buzzing round the sweetly-smelling garden-
plots and flowers.
Professor Wilson.

O beautiful Bee-Home-Stead! with many a
waxen cell

Self-built for hanging so it seems-that airy citadel!

An unbought blessing to man's life, which neither any hoe,

Nor axe, nor crooked sickle is needed to bestow;

A tiny vessel-and no more-wherein the busy

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Emerson. Even bees, the little alms-men of spring

Here their delicious task the fervent bees
In swarming millions tend; around, athwart,
Through the soft air the busy nations fly,
Cling to the bud, and with inserted tube
Suck its pure essence, its ethereal soul;
And oft, with bolder wing, they soaring dare
The purple heath, or where the wild-thyme
grows,

And yellow load them with the luscious spoil.

Thomson.

bowers,

Know there is richest juice in poison-flowers.

Keats.

Tell me, ye studious, who pretend to see
Far into Nature's bosom, whence the bee
Was first inform'd her vent'rous flight to steer,
Through trackless paths and an abyss of air?
Whence she avoids the slimy marsh, and
knows

The fertile hills where sweeter herbage grows,
And honey-making flowers their opening buds
disclose?

They have a king, and officers of sorts:
Where some, like magistrates, correct at Finds she the labour of her day is done?

How from the thicken'd mist and setting sun,

home;

Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armèd in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they with merry march bring
home

Who taught her against winds and rains to
strive,

To bring her burden to the certain hive,
And through the liquid fields again to pass
Duteous and heark'ning to the sounding
brass?

Prior.

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against.

For an able-bodied man to be caught a third time begging, was held a crime deserving death, and the sentence was intended on fit occasions to be executed. The poor man's advantages which I have estimated at so high a rate, were not purchased without drawbacks. He might not change his master at his will, or wander from place to place. He might not keep his children at home, unless he could answer for their time. If out of employment, preferring to be idle, he might be demanded for work by any master of the "craft" to which he belonged, and compelled to work whether he would or no. If caught begging once, being neither aged nor infirm, he was whipped at the cart's tail. If caught a second time, his ear was slit or bored through with a hot iron. If caught a third time, being thereby proved to be of no use upon this earth, but to live upon it only to his own hurt, and to that of others, he suffered death as a felon. So the law of England remained for sixty years. First drawn by Henry, it continued unrepealed through the reigns of Edward and Mary; subsisting, therefore, with the deliberate approval of both the great parties between whom the country was divided. Re-considered under Elizabeth, the same law was again formally passed; and it was, there

fore, the expressed conviction of the English nation that it was better for a man not to live at all, than to live a profitless and worthless life. The vagabond was a sore spot upon the commonwealth, to be healed by wholesome discipline, if the gangrene was not incurable; to be cut away with the knife, if the milder treatment of the cart-whip failed to be of profit. Froude.

BEGGARY-Reproaches of.

Art thou a man, and sham'st thou not to beg,-
To practise such a servile kind of life?
Why, were thy education ne'er so mean,
Having thy limbs, a thousand fairer courses
Offer themselves to thy election.
Either the wars might still supply thy wants,
Or service of some virtuous gentleman,
Or honest labour; nay what can I name
But would become thee better than to beg?
But men of thy condition feed on sloth,
As doth the beetle on the dung she breeds in;
Not caring how the metal of your minds
Is eaten with the rust of idleness.
Now, after me, whate'er he be, that should
Believe a person of thy quality,

While thou insists in this loose desp'rate course,
I would esteem the sin not thine, but his.
Ben Jonson.
BEGINNING-Difficulties of a

Nothing so difficult as a beginning

For oftentimes, when Pegasus seems winning
In poesy, unless, perhaps, the end;
The race, he sprains a wing, and down we tend,
Like Lucifer, when hurl'd from heaven for sin-
ning;

Our sin the same, and hard as his to mend, Being pride, which leads the mind to soar too far,

Till our own weakness shows us what we are. Byron.

BEHAVIOUR-Levity of.

Levity of behaviour is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. Seneca.

BEHAVIOUR-Oddities of.

Oddities and singularities of behaviour may attend genius; when they do, they are its misfortunes and its blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them; at least he will never affect to distinguish himself by whimsical peculiarities. Sir W. Temple.

BEHAVIOUR-Proper.

What is becoming is honourable, and what is honourable is becoming. Tully. BEHAVIOUR-Rules for.

When you come into any fresh company,1. Observe their humours. 2. Suit your own

BEHAVIOUR.

carriage thereto; by which insinuation you will make their converse more free and open. 3. Let your discourse be more in queries and doubtings than peremptory assertions or disputings, it being the designe of travellers to learne, not to teach. Besides, it will persuade, your acquaintance that you have the greater esteem of them, and soe make them more ready to communicate what they know to you; whereas nothing sooner occasions disrespect and quarrels than peremptorinesse. You will find little or no advantage in seeming wiser, or much more ignorant than your company. 4. Seldom discommend anything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest you bee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction. It is safer to commend anything more than it deserves, than to discommend a thing soe much as it deserves; for commendations meet not soe often with oppositions, or, at least, are not usually soe ill-resented by men that think otherwise, as discommendations; and you will insinuate into men's favour by nothing sooner than seeming to approve and commend what they like; but beware of doing it by a comparison. 5. If you bee❘ affronted, it is better, in a forraine country, to pass it by in silence, and with a jest, though with some dishonour, than to endeavour revenge; for in the first case, your credit's ne'er the worse when you return into England, or come into other company that have not heard of the quarrell. But, in the second case, you may beare the marks of the quarrell while you live, if you outlive it at all. But, if you find yourself unavoidably engaged, 'tis best, I think, if you can command your passion and language, to keep them pretty eavenly at some certain moderate pitch, not much hightning them to exasperate your adversary or provoke his friends, nor letting them grow overmuch dejected to make him insult. In a word, if you can keep reason above passion, that and watchfulness will be your best defendants.

Sir Isaac Newton.

Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day.

Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.

Never spend your money before you have it. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst and cold.

We seldom repent of having eaten too little. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened.

Take things always by the smooth handle.

BELL.

When angry, count ten before you speak ; if very angry, a hundred. Jefferson.

BELIEF-Differences in.

Tis with our judgments as our watches; uone Are just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope.

BELIEF-Efficacy of.

When, in your last hour (think of this), all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity-imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment-then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness. Richter.

BELIEF-a Religious.

I envy not quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, or fancy : but if I could choose what would be most delightful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing; for it makes life a discipline of goodness,-creates new hopes, when all earthly hopes vanish; and throws over the decay, the destruction of existence, the most gorgeous of all lights; awakens life even in death, and from corruption and decay calls up beauty and divinity: makes an instrument of torture and of shame the ladder of ascent to paradise; and far above all combinations of earthly hopes, calls up the most delightful visions of plains and amaranths, the gardens of the blest, the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist and the sceptic view only gloom, decay, annihilation, and despair.

Sir Humphry Davy.

BELIEF -a Willing.
Men willingly believe what they wish to be
true.
Casar.

BELIEVING-Means of.

There are three means of believing; by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter. But then it chiefly engages us to offer ourselves, with all humility, to the succours of inspired grace, which alone can produce the true and salutary effect. Pascal. BELL-of the College Chapel.

Lo I, the man whom erst the Muse did ask Her deepest notes to swell the patriot's

meeds,

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O! how I love the sound! it is the knell

That still a requiem tolls to comfort's hour; And loth am I, at SUPERSTITION'S bell,

To quit or Morpheus' or the Muse's bower:
Better to lie and doze, than gape amain,
Hearing still mumbled o'er the same infernal
strain.

Thou tedious herald of more tedious prayers,
Say, hast thou ever summoned from his rest
One being, awaken'd to "religious awe ?"
Or roused one "pious transport" in the
breast!

Or rather, do not all reluctant creep

To linger out the hour in listlessness or sleep?

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BELL-Echoing Knell of the.
Slow o'er the midnight wave it swung,
Northumbrian rocks in answer rung;
To Warkworth cell the echoes roll'd,
His beads the wakeful hermit told;
The Bamborough's peasant raised his head,
But slept ere half a prayer he said;
So far was heard the mighty knell,
The stag sprung up on Cheviot Fell,
Spread his broad nostril to the wind,
Listed before, aside, behind;
Then couch'd him down beside the hind,
And quaked among the mountain fern.

Thou dull memorial of monastic gall!
What fancy, sad or lightsome, hast thou BELL-The Passing.
given ?

Thy vision-scaring sounds alone recall

The prayer that trembles on a yawn to heaven; And this Dean's gape, and that Dean's nasal tone,

AND ROMAN RITES RETAIN'D, THOUGH ROMAN
FAITH BE FLOWN!
Southey.

BELL-Curfew.
Solemnly, mournfully,
Dealing its dole,

The curfew bell

Is beginning to toll:

Cover the embers,

And put out the light;

Toil comes with the morning,
And rest with the night.
Dark grow the windows,
And quench'd is the fire;
Sound fades into silence,-
All footsteps retire.

No voice in the chambers,
No sound in the hall;
Sleep and oblivion

Reign over all!

The book is completed,

And closed, like the day;

And the hand that has written it
Lays it away.

Dim grow its fancies;

Forgotten they lie; Like coals in the ashes, They darken and die.

Sir Walter Scott.

What meant that tongue of death, that
solemn knell,

At midnight thus, which cleaves the silent air!
With mournful accents laden, how it wounds!
Bursting the door that opens to our heart;
It surely has a voice which wisdom hears,
A message to the living from the dead,
Its errand this to man-In time prepare!

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Lamb.

The music nighest bordering upon heaven.
BELLS-Sabbath.

The cheerful sabbath bells, wherever heard
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
Tidings of good to Zion: chiefly when
Their piercing tones fall sudden on the ear
Of the contemplant, solitary man,

Whom thoughts abstruse or high have chanced
to lure

Forth from the walks of men, revolving oft,
And oft again, hard matter, which eludes
And baffles his pursuit-thought-sick and tired
Of controversy, where no end appears,
No clue to his research, the lonely man
Half-wishes for society again.

Him thus engaged, the sabbath bells salute
Sudden his heart awakes, his ears drink in

The cheering music; his relenting soul
Yearns after all the joys of social life,
And softens with the love of human kind.

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