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adopted that creed which it considers as containing the purest principles of Christian faith.

The Epicureans contented themselves with a denial of a Providence, asserting at the same time the existence of gods in general; because they would not shock the common belief of mankind. (Addison.)

I reject all sectarian intolerance 1 affect no uncharitable jargon frankly I confess that I have known many before whose virtues I bow down ashamed of my own errors, though they were not guided and supported by Belief. (Bulwer's Stud.)

(Young's N. Th.)

Believe, and taste the pleasure of a god; Believe, and look with triumph on the tomb. Perhaps there are many with whom Faith the Saviour must lie awhile in darkness and the Grave of Unbelief, ere, immortal and immortalizing, it ascend from its tomb a God! (Bulwer's Stud.)

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Faith builds a bridge across the gulph of death,
To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun,
And lands Thought smoothly on the farther shore.
(Young's N. Th.)

Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinitely greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose? (Addison.)

Nature is a friend to truth;

Nature is Christian; preaches to mankind,
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed.

(Young's N. Th.)

1. To BIND, 2. TIE.

1. Binden; 2. binden.

Die Handlung des ersten Zeitwortes bedeutet eine Windung um einen Körper, sie dient, um mehrere Dinge fest zusammen zu halten und sie überall in gegenseitige Berührung zu bringen, auch bildlich behält es dieselbe Bedeutung. Das zweite Zeitwort eine Windung in sich selbst, um die Trennung eines einzelnen Dinges von einem andern zu verhindern; die Berührung geschieht nur an einem Theile. Auch dieses Zeitwort wird bildlich angewendet.

Some bodies are bound without being tied, others are tied without being bound. A wounded leg is bound. A string is tied but not bound. A riband may sometimes be bound round the head, and tied under the chin. When the hair is bound, it is a'most inclosed in an envelope: when it is tied with a string, the ends are left to hang loose.

The inhabitants appeared in the simple innocence of nature, entirely naked. Their black hair, long and uncurled, floated upon their shoulders, or was bound in tresses around their heads.

(Robertson's Hist. of America.)

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our stern alarms are changed to merry meetings.

(Shakspeare.)

They separated; Colonel Ashton joining the rest of the mourners, and the Master of Ravenswood taking his horse, which was tied to a tree behind the church. (W. Scott's Bride of Lammermoor.) Nugent, as he tied his (Bulw. Stud.)

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neckcloth.

A fluttering dove upon the top they tie,
The living mark at which their arrows fly.

(Dryden.)

With feeble effort still I tried
To rend the bonds so starkly tied.

But at the Prioress' command,
A monk undid the silken band,
That tied her tressed fair.

(Byron's Mazeppa.)

(W. Scott's Marmion.)

Dissimulation but ties false knots
On that straight line, by which you hitherto
Have measur'd all your actions.

(Massinger's New way.)

1. To BLAME, 2. REPROVE, 3. REPROACH, 4. UPBRAID, 5. CENSURE, 6. CONDEMN. 1. Tadeln; 2. tadeln, zurechtweisen, schelten, schmähen, widerlegen; 3. vorwerfen, vorrücken, schelten, schmähen; 4. beschuldigen, vorwerfen, vorrücken; 5. tadeln, rügen; 6. mißbilligen, verdammen.

1. To blame drückt weniger aus, als 2. to reprove, es ist bloße Bezuchtigung eines Fehlers, mit to reprove ist auch Strenge verbunden; beides find Handlungen eines Höhern und finden auch bei gewöhnlichen Gelegenhei ten Statt; der geringste Fehler kann getadelt werden (blamed), aber bei absichtlichen wird to reprove gebraucht. 3. Reproach bedeutet mehr als 1. 2, es ist bitterer Tadel und darf nicht ohne den stärksten Grund geschehen. 4. Upbraid betrifft persönliche Angelegenheiten, greift den sittlichen Charakter an. 5. Censure, 6 Condemn, lassen die gegenseitigen Verhältnisse des Wirkenden und Leidenden oft unbestimmt: diese Handlungen können von Jedem ausgehen und Jeden treffen.

Masters blame or reprove their servants, parents their childern. We blame ourselves for acts of imprudence.

I do not blame an author for suiting himself to the period and to the people he addresses he must be understood by his audience, but then (Bulwer's France.)

he should elevate his audience.

Observe her, Portius;

That face, that shape, those eyes, that heav'n of beauty!
Observe her well, and blame me if thou canst.

Thus, envious of another's state,
Each blam'd the partial hand of Fate.

Nay, son- I think you speak in charity
As one who blames through love.

(Addison's Cato.)

(Gay's Fables.)

(Knowles's Wife.)

Clear, placid Leman! thy contrasted lake,
With the wild world I dwelt in, is a thing
Which warns me, with its stilness, to forsake
Earth's troubled waters for a purer spring.
This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing
To waft me from distraction; once I loved
Torn ocean's roar, but thy soft murmuring
Sounds sweet as if a sister's voice reproved,

That I with stern delights should e'er have been so moved.
(Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgr.)

Friendship by sweet reproof is shown,
(A virtue never near a throne)

(Gay's Fables.)

There is nothing which provokes a reproach sooner than ingratitude. A man will always be reproached by his neighbours for the vices be commits. Our consciences reproach us for our weaknesses. Friends and acquaintances reproach and upbraid each other. Our conscience upbraid us for our sins.

They seldom rencountered in the streets or walks, without discovering their animosity in mutual reproaches, and sometimes in blows. (Gillies' hist. of Greece.)

Scorn is more grievous than the pains of death;
Reproach more piercing than the pointed sword.

(Home's Douglas.)

Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single has maintain'd,
Against revolted multitudes, the cause

Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms;
And for the testimony of truth hast borne
Universal reproach, far worse to bear
Than violence.

(Paradise Lost.)

What! shall an African, shall Juba's heir,
Reproach great Cato's son, and show the world
A virtue wanting in a Roman soul!

(Addison's Cato.)

Have we not known thee slave! Of all the host,
The man who acts the least upbraids the most.

And not a voice was heard t'upbraid
Ambition in this humbled hour,

When truth had nought to dread from power.

(Pope.)

(Byron's Mazeppa.)

Censure and condemnation are provoked by faults and misconduct of different descriptions. The defective execution of a work is calculated to draw down censure upon its author. The mistakes of a general, or a minister of state, will provoke condemnation.

Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame;
Still pleas'd to praise, yet not affraid to blame.

And little reck I of the censure sharp
May idly cavil at an idle lay.

(Pope's Critic.)

(Lady of the Lake.)

Let thy pride pardon what thy nature needs,
The salutary censure of a friend.

(Young's N. Th.)

1. BRAVE, 2. GALLANT.

1. Brav, tapfer; 2. brav, tapfer, bieder.

Die Bedeutung des lezten Eigenschaftsworts drückt mehr aus, als die des ersten; es ist außerordentliche Tapferkeit, bei außerordentlichen Gelegenheiten.

The brave man goes willingly where he is commanded; the gallant man leads on with vigour to the attack. To call a hero brave adds little or nothing to his character; but to entitle him gallant adds a lustre to the glory he has acquired.

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

(Francis.)

Here let us pause, said Trevylyan, afterwards, as they visited the remains of the ancient palace, and the sun glittered on the scene, to recall the old chivalric day of the gallant Barbarossa; let us suppose

him commencing the last great action of his life; let us picture him as setting out for the Holy Land.« (Bulwer's Pilgrims.)

Yon gallant chief,

Of arms enamour'd, all repose disclaims.

(Home's Douglas.)

In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few!
From rank to rank your volly'd thunder flew :
Oh! bloodiest picture in the book of Time,
Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime.

(T. Campbell's Pleas. of Hope.)
Death is the worst; a fate which all must try,
And for our country 'tis a bliss to die.
The gallant man, though slain in fight he be,
Yet leaves his nation safe, his children free.

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(Pope.)

(Burn's Poems.)

1. To BUILD, 2. ERECT, 3. CONSTRUCT. 1. Bauen, erbauen; 2. aufrichten, aufführen; 3. bauen, erbauen, aufführen.

Das erste Verbum drückt die Ursache der Handlung aus. Das zweite die Art der Handlung, und das dritte Erfindung, Plan, Entwurf in der Handlung.

Houses are built, monuments erected, machines are constructed. We build from necessity, we erect for ornament; we construct for utility and convenience. The construction of a vessel. They have erected a large palace.

Montesquieu wittily observes, that by building professed mad houses, men tacitly insinuate that all who are out of their senses are to be found only in those places. (Warton.) On a narrow basis of acknowledged truth, an immense but rude superstructure of fable has been erected; and the wild Irishman, as well as the wild Tartar, could paint out the individual son of Japhet, from whose loins his ancestors were lineally descended. (Gibbon's Hist.)

There is no art

To shew the mind's construction in the face.

(Shakespare.)

1. BURIAL, 2. INTERMENT, 3. SEPULTURE. 1. Begräbniß, Beerdigung; 2. Beerdigung, Begräbniß; 3. Begräbniß, Beerdigung.

Das erste bedeutet die Absicht der Handlung einzig und allein; das zweite und dritte sowohl die Art, als auch den Beweggrund. Burial erfordert ein Begraben in die Erde, Interment kann auch das Beisehen in Grüfte sein, und ist ein zierlicherer Ausdruck; Sepulture ist auf besondere Fålle beschränkt, als auf die Rechte und Vorrechte der Beerdigung. Mit den zwei legten Aus

drücken ist auch immer ein religiöser Sinn verbunden; der erste und zweite hingegen wird auch oft bildlich auf andere Gegenstände und Zwecke ange= wendet.

Christians in general are buried in the churchgard; but the kings of England were formerly interred in Westminister Abbey. He buries the talent he possesses. This is buried in oblivion.

Let my pale corse the rights of burial know,
And give me entrance in the realms below.

(Pope.) The corpse of Henry V. was interred near the shrine of Edward the confessor: and the tomb was long visited by the people with sentiments of veneration and regret. (Lingard's hist. of Engl.) I have seen the pope alive, and a cardinal dead both of whom looked very well indeed. The latter was in state, in the Chiesa Nuova, previous to his interment.

(Byron's Lett.)

Yet man, fool man! here buries all his thoughts;
Inters celestial hopes without one sigh.

Ah! leave me not for Grecian dogs to tear;
The common rites of sepulture bestow,
To soothe a father's and a mother's woe.

(Young's N. Th.)

(Pope.)

1. BUSINESS, 2. TRADE, 3. PROFESSION, 4. ART.

1. Geschäft, Sache, Angelegenheit; 2. Handel, Gewerbe; 3. Beruf, Stand; 4. Kunst.

Die Ausübung unserer Kenntniß und Erfahrung, um dadurch einen Ge= winn zu erlangen, ist die Bedeutung des ersten Hauptworts; das Kaufen und Verkaufen von Waaren bezeichnet das zweite; Gelehrsamkeit oder besondere Geschicklichkeit ist profession, so wie die Ausübung einer besondern Kunst mit dem vierten benannt wird.

Brokers, manufacturers, bankers, and others, carry on business; every shop-keeper and retailer carries on a trade; clergymen medical, or military men follow a profession; musicians and painters follow an art. It is the business of a man and a christian, to summon reason as quickly as he can to his aid; and she will presently teach him patience and submission. (Fielding's J. Andrews.)

I never went to the levee; for having seen the courts of Mussulman and Catholic sovereigns, my curiosity was sufficiently allayed; and my politics being as perverse as my rhymes, I had, in fact, no business there. (Byron's Letters.)

But that is by,

And now my business is to die.

I can safely recommend him, as fair, certainly, in point of reputation, he stands

(Lady of the Lake.) liberal, and attentive, and among the first of the trade. (Byron's Lett.)

Some Persons, indeed, by the privilege of their birth and quality, are above a common trade and profession, but they are not hereby exempted from all business, and allowed to live unprofitably to others.

(Tillotson.)

No one of the sons of Adam ought to think himself exempt from labour or industrie; those to whom birth or fortune may seem to make

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