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SATAN.

SATAN-Avenging Character of. Meanwhile the adversary of God and man, Satan, with thoughts inflamed of highest design,

Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell

SATIRE.

thirsty, can never find the true pleasure of drinking. Montaigne.

SATIETY-a Curse.

Some are cursed with the fulness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life, when Colton.

Explores his solitary flight: sometimes
He scours the right-hand coast, sometimes the its very pleasures fatigue them?

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He, above the rest,

In shape and gesture proudly eminent,
Stood like a tower: his form had yet not lost
All its original brightness, nor appear'd
Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess
Of glory obscured; as when the sun, new risen,
Looks through the horizontal misty air,
Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon,
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs; darken'd so, yet shone
Above them all th' archangel; but his face
Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd, and care
Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows
Of dauntless courage, and consid'rate pride,
Waiting revenge: cruel his eye, but cast
Signs of remorse and passion, to behold
The fellows of his crime, the followers rather,
(Far other once beheld in bliss!) condemn'd
For ever now to have their lot in pain;
Millions of spirits, for his fault amerced
Of heav'n, and from eternal splendours flung,
For his revolt: yet faithful now they stood,
Their glory wither'd; as when heaven's fire
Hath scath'd the forest oaks, or mountain pines,
With singed top their stately growth, though
bare,

Stands on the blasted heath.

SATAN-Evil Qualities of.

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SATIRE-Circulation of.

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them? Sheridan.

SATIRE-Nature of.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own;-which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so Swift. very few are offended with it.

SATIRE-Province of.

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it. Addison

SATIRE-Success of.

Of all the ways that wisest men could find
To mend the age, and mortify mankind,
Satire well writ has most successful proved,
And cures, because the remedy is loved.
"Tis hard to write on such a subject more
Without repeating things oft said before;
Some vulgar errors only we remove,
That stain a beauty which so much we love.
Of well-chose words some take not care enough,
And think they should be, as the subject, rough;
This great work must be more exactly made,
And sharpest thoughts in smoothest words
conveyed:

Some think, if sharp enough, they cannot fail,
As if their only business was to rail;
But human frailty nicely to unfold,
Distinguishes a satire from a scold:
Rage you must hide, and prejudice lay down :-
A satire's smile is sharper than his frown.

SATIRE-Treatment of.

Mulgrave.

Of satires I think as Epictetus did: "If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it." By dint of time and experience I have learned to be a good post-horse; I go through my appointed daily stage, and I care not for the curs who bark at me along the road.

Frederick the Great.

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SATIRE-Use of.

Oh, sacred weapon, left for truth's defence,
Sole dread of folly, vice, and insolence,
To all but heaven-directed hands denied ;
The muse may give thee, but the gods must
guide.

Rev'rent I touch thee, but with honest zeal,
To rouse the watchmen of the public weal;
To virtue's work promote the tardy hall,
And goad the prelate, slumbering in his stall.

Pope.

Poets alone found the delightful way Mysterious morals gently to convey In charming numbers; so that, as men grew 1 Pleased with their poems, they grew wiser too. !Satire has always shone among the rest, And is the boldest way, if not the best, To tell men freely of their foulest faults,

To laugh at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts.
In satire, too, the wise took different ways,
To each allowing its peculiar praise:
Some did all folly with just sharpness blame;
Whilst others laugh'd and scorn'd them into
shame;

But of these two, the last succeeded best,

As men aim rightest when they shoot in jest.
But with sharp eyes those nicer faults to find
Which lie obscurely in the wisest mind,
That little speck which all the rest does spoil,

To wash off that would be a noble toil.

Beyond the loose-writ libels of this age,

Or the forced scenes of our declining stage;
Above all censure, too, each little wit
Will be so glad to see the greater hit,

SATIRE-Writers of.

For a young and presumptuous poet (and presumptuousness is but too naturally connected with the consciousness of youthful power) a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them; it ministers to his self-conceit, if he takes the tone of invective, it leads him to be uncharitable; and if he takes that of ridicule, one of the most fatal habits which any one can contract, is that of looking at all things in a ludicrous point of view. Southey.

SATIRIST-Power of the.
Horace, with sly insinuating grace,
Laugh'd at his friend, and look'd him in the
face;

Would raise a blush where secret vice he found,
And tickle while he gently probed the wound;
With seeming innocence the crowd beguiled,
But made the desperate passes when he smiled.
Dryden.

SCANDAL-Characteristics of.

These are the spiders of society;
They weave their petty webs of lies and sneers,
And lie themselves in ambush for the spoil.
The web seems fair, and glitters in the sun,
And the poor victim winds him in the toil
Before he dreams of danger or of death.
L. E. Lundon.

SCANDAL-Evils of.

Who, judging better, though concern'd the Nor do they trust their Tongues alone,

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Satirical writers and talkers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, 'tis true, but 'tis to feed upon the chaff. It is much easier for an ill-natured than for a good-natured man to be witty; but the most gifted men that I have known have been the least addicted to depreciate either friends or foes. Dr. Johnson, Burke, and Fox, were always more inclined to overrate them. Your shrewd, sly, wit-speaking fellow, is generally a shallow personage, and frequently he is as venomous and as false when he flatters as when he reviles; he seldom blames John but to vex Thomas. Do not, pray do not, "sit in the seat of the scorner." Are these poor heartless creatures to be envied? Can you think that the Duc de Richelieu was a happier man than Fenelon? or Dean Swift than Bishop Berkeley? Sharpe.

But speak a language of their own;
Can read a Nod, a Shrug, a Look,
Far better than a printed Book,
Convey a Libel in a Frown,
And wink a Reputation down;
Or, by the tossing of the fan,
Describe the Lady and the Man.

A whisper broke the air,

A soft light tone, and low,
Yet barb'd with shame and woe;
Now, might it only perish there,
Nor further go!
Ah, me! a quick and eager ear

Caught up the little meaning sound!
Another voice has breathed it clear,
And so it wander'd round
From ear to lip, from lip to ear,
Until it reach'd a gentle heart,
And that it broke!

Swift.

L. E. Landon.

Now they interpret motions, looks, and eyes, At every word a reputation dies. Pope.

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My friend advised me, if ever I took a house in a terrace, a little way out of town, to be very careful that it was the centre one-at least if I had any regard for my reputation. For I must be well aware that a story never loses by telling; and, consequently, if I lived in the middle of a row of houses, it was very clear that the tales which might be circulated to my prejudice would only have half the distance to travel on either side of me, and therefore could only be half as bad by the time they got down to the bottom of the terrace, as the tales that might be circulated by the wretched individuals who had the misfortune to live at the two ends of it; so that I should be certain to have twice as good a character in the neighbourhood as they had. For instance, I was informed of a lamentable case that actually occurred a short time since.

SCEPTIC.

The servant at No. 1 told the servant at No. 2 that her master expected his old friends, the Bayleys, to pay him a visit shortly; and No. 2 told No. 3 that No. 1 expected to have the Bayleys in the house every day; and No. 3 told No. 4 that it was all up with No. 1, for they couldn't keep the bailiffs out; whereupon 4 told 5 that the officers were after No. 1, and that it was as much as he could do to prevent himself being taken in execution, and that it was nearly killing his poor dear wife: and so it went on increasing and increasing until it got to No. 32, who confidently assured the last house, No. 33, that the Bow-street officers had taken up the gentleman who lived at No. 1, for killing his poor dear wife with arsenic, and that it was confidently hoped and expected that he would be executed. Fraser.

SCANDAL-Spread of.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame,
Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame;
On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly;
While virtuous actions are but born and die.
Harvey.

SCAR-if Nobly Got.

A scar nobly got is a good livery of honour. Shakspeare. SCEPTIC-Folly of the.

As the man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are; so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise, beyond what is permitted to man. plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable, than that of the common | herd whom he despises, and would fain instruct. For the more precious the gift, the more pernicious ever will be the abuse of it, as the most powerful medicines are the most dangerous, if misapplied; and no error is so remediless as that which arises, not from the exclusion of wisdom, but from its perversion.i The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him! deeper in the abyss. Colton.

SCEPTIC-Miserable Theories of the.

One drop from the pure fountain of faith would have yielded incalculable refreshment and strength. His thoughts might have been profound, but they were not pious; even on the confines of death, the question "to be, or not to be," presented itself to him; he repeated not the Lord's Prayer, but the dogmas of his false philosophy," Man is a production of parents and nurses, of art and time, of breath and air, of sound and light, of food and i

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SCHOLAR-Vocation of the.

The most widely-extended survey of the actual advancement of the human race in general, and the steadfast promotion of that advancement. Fichte.

SCHOLARS-Power of.

There can be no reasonable doubt that it is better to believe too much than too little, since, as Boswell observes (most probably in Johnson's words), "a man may breathe in foul air, but he must die in an exhausted receiver. Much of the scepticism that we meet with is necessarily affectation or conceit, for it is as likely that the ignorant, weak, and indolent should become mathematicians, as reasoning unbelievers. Patient study and perfect impartiality must precede rational conviction, whether ending in faith or in doubt. Need it be asked, how many are capable of such an examination? But whether men come honestly by their opinions or not, it is more advisable, though less easy, to refute than to burn, or even to scorch them. Galileo would And gently sip the dimply river's brim.

not have been persecuted, could he have been answered; and Sir William Jones tells us that, even now, the Brahmins require a man to be punished who overpowers them in argument. Sharpe.

SCHEMES-Idle and Imaginary.

We are not to choose for ourselves what parts to act on the stage of life, but to act those well which are allotted and appointed for us. It is a great misfortune, that people so commonly amuse themselves with idle and imaginary schemes, how they would behave, and what they would do, were they in such or such a situation. They would be very good and very exemplary, were they very great, very learned, very wealthy, very retired, very old, and the like. But they neglect the gift which is in them, and the work which is appointed for them, while they are thinking of that which is not. Alas! their state of probation is their present state, whatever it be. And when they are called to an account before the judgment-seat of Christ, it will be a poor excuse to say, that their thoughts were so taken up with dreams and reveries, how they would manage were they in another station, that they did not attend to the discharge

Scholars are men of peace; they bear no arms, but their tongues are sharper than Actius's sword, their pens carry further, and give a louder report, than thunder. I had rather stand in the shock of a basilisk, than in the fury of a merciless pen.

Sir Thomas Browne.

SCHOLARS-Superficial.

They lightly skim,

SCHOOL-Advice about.

Virgil.

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"Now, Tom, my boy," said the Squire, " member you are going at your own request, to be chucked into this great school, like a young bear with all your troubles before you, earlier than we should have sent you perhaps. If schools are what they were in my time, you'll see a great many cruel blackguard things done, and hear a deal of foul bad talk. But never fear. You tell the truth, keep a brave and kind heart, and never listen to, or say anything you wouldn't have your mother or sister hear, and you'll never feel ashamed to come home, or me to see you." Hughes.

SCHOOL (A Great)-Different Aspects of.

A great school is very trying; it never can present images of rest and peace; and when the spring and activity of youth are altogether unsanctified by anything pure and elevated in its desires, it becomes a spectacle that is dizzying and almost more morally distressing than the shouts and gambols of a set of lunatics. It is very startling to see so much of sin combined with so little of sorrow. In a parish, amongst the poor, whatever of sin exists,

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there is sure, also, to be enough of suffering: required to set up this profession, but only a poverty, sickness, and old age, are mighty rod and a ferula; secondly, others who are tamers and chastisers. But with boys of the able, use it only as a passage to better prericher classes, one sees nothing but plenty, ferment, to patch the rents in their present health, and youth; and these are really awful fortune till they can provide a new one, and to behold, when one must feel that they are betake themselves to some more gainful callunblessed. On the other hand, few things are ing; thirdly, they are disheartened from doing more beautiful than when one does see all holy their best with the miserable reward which in and noble thoughts and principles, not the some places they receive, being masters to the forced growth of pain, or infirmity, or privation, | children, and slaves to their parents; fourthly, but springing up as by God's immediate being grown rich, they grow negligent, and planting, in a sort of garden of all that is fresh scorn to touch the school but by the proxy of and beautiful, full of so much hope for this an usher. Fuller. world as well as for heaven. Dr. Arnold.

SCHOOLMASTER-Character of the.

A good schoolmaster minces his precepts for children to swallow, hanging clogs on the nimbleness of his own soul, that his scholars may go along with him. Fuller.

SCHOOLMASTER-Duties of the.
There is neither fortune nor fame to be
acquired in fulfilling the laborious duties of a
village schoolmaster. Doomed to a life of
monotonous labour, sometimes requited with
ingratitude and injustice by ignorance, he
will often be oppressed with melancholy, and
perhaps sink under the weight of his thankless
toil, if he do not seck strength and courage
elsewhere than in the views of immediate and
personal interest. He must be sustained and
animated by a profound sense of the moral
importance of his labours. He must learn to
regard the austere pleasure of having served
mankind, and secretly contributed to the
public weal, as a price worthy of his exertion,
which his conscience pays him. It is his glory
to aspire to nothing above his obscure and
laborious condition, to make unnumbered
sacrifices for those who profit by him, to
labour, in a word, for man, and wait for his
Guizot.
reward from God.

SCHOOLMASTER-Occupation of the. It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth. Ibid.

There is scarce any profession in the commonwealth more necessary, which is so slightly performed, as that of a schoolmaster. The reasons whereof I conceive to be these: first, young scholars make this calling their refuge -yea, perchance before they have taken any degree in the university, commence schoolmasters in the country, as if nothing else were

SCHOOLMASTER-The Village.

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way,
With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay,
There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule,
The village master taught his little school;
A man severe he was, and stern to view,-

knew him well, and every truant knew;
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace
The day's disasters in his morning face;
Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes,-for many a joke had he;
Full well the busy whisper circling round,
Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd:
Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught,
The love he bore to learning was in fault;
The village all declared how much he knew,-
'Twas certain he could write, and cipher too;
Lands he could measure, terms and tides pre-

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SCIENCE-Acquisition of.

No science is speedily learned by the noblest
Walts.
genius without tuition.
SCIENCE-Catholicity of.

The first six persons to whom certificates have been awarded at the Society of Arts examination, are respectively, "a mechanic." "a bookkeeper," "an engineer," "a shipwright," "a warehouseman," and "a gas engineer." Throughout the whole long list of certificated candidates similar occupations are to be read. It is remarkable that the three first prizes-Arithmetic, Algebra, and Men

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