quently called our fecond nature, this ftriking example should warn people against learning fuch tricks during youth, as may eafily get confirmed in riper years-should our early HABITS thus obtain ftrength from practice, and want of contradiction in parents, governors, &c. PPY, HAPPY, LUCKY, FORTUNATE, SUCCESSFUL, PROSPEROUS. Yet THESE agreeable adjectives seem at first view more closely united than ftrict fynonymy acknowledges, or cold experience finds them. We will try for an example. Fortunio, fay we, was certainly a LUCKY fellow in getting that ten thousand pound prize in the lottery, when I am told he was with difficulty perfuaded to purchase a ticket; but every one fancied him ftill more FORTUNATE when poffeffed of twice that fum with a very agreeable wife. though in restoring his ancient family to a good eftate long in the poffeffion of his forefathers, and lately lost to them without much blame on their part, he has been thus uncommonly sucCESSFUL; one cannot tell how to call him a HAPPY man, while his amiable lady languishes under the effects of a paralytic affection, which kills not, but wholly incapacitates her from doing the duties or enjoying the comforts of fociety; and his only fon's deficiency of intellect, caufed perhaps by this latent complaint or ra ther ther diforder of the mother, now fhews itself every day more plainly to us all. Thefe vexations would however have been greatly balanced by the uncommon wit and promifing beauty of his daughter-had not the fall from her horse last summer, which put out her hip, produced a continued weakness, and lafting deformity, which feem to preclude all hope of fucceffion to his fortune:-and I now queftion whether our friend Fortunio, after being fo many years accounted a man fingularly SPEROUS, is not likely enough to let melancholy reflections prey upon his fpirits, till they bring on a train of nervous diseases-and die at laft probably of a broken heart. PRO But enough and too much upon this fubject, beft illuftrated in the ftory of Zeluco, where the hero is conducted through two octavo volumes, every page of which fhews him sucCESSFUL in all his projects, yet failing of happiness in each, only because his plans were never dictated by virtue. HERESY, DISSENSION, SCHISM. THAT the first and last of these words are not synonymous, our Church Litany affords a proof; which prays against both. The first is however author and cause of the third; for did no man, upon the mere foundation of his own private opinion and judgment, confider his au thority thority as fufficient for teaching doctrines not to be found in Scripture (which is the very effence of HERESY)--no fet of men could be found ready, at every felf-fufficient fellow's call, to feparate themselves from the established Church, following with folemn faces and a canting voice human precepts and inflitutions, inftead of thofe firft eftablished by Divine authority, and confirmed by long ufage of the wife and venerable; which, as I take it, is the meaning of the word SCHISM: it is therefore well joined in our Litany with contempt of God's holy will and commandment.-With regard to the other word, it should fignify only dispute among the feveral Churches and Apofles, to the which as human creatures they were fubject-even the beft; for we read that there was a DISSENSION between Barnabas and Paul:-and our own Separatifts, who fhew fuch unprovoked bitterness and rancour (I know not why) against ecclefiaftical arrangement and epifcopal fuperintendency-though they of late feem to glory in the term DISSENTERS-do not yet choose to avow the appellation of SCHISMATICS:-another proof that these fubftantives are not fynony mous. HEALTHY, WHOLESOME, ARE fynonymes when applied to particular things. This is a HEALTHY or a WHOLESOME air, fay we, ufing the words for adjectives; adverbially too, they are taken each for other perpetually; and one hears every day how cucumbers and melons are gratifying to the palate, and pleafing in their fcent, but that it is not HEALTHY or WHOLESOME to eat much of them. Yet mistakes may ftill be made, if foreigners ́feizing even on thefe words use them indifcriminately becaufe we often accept them in a figurative fenfe, and fay how Marcus gave his nephew WHOLESOME advice, which he not obferving incurred from the fchool-mafter a little WHOLESOME Correction with a rod.-Were the other word to be fubftituted here, the fentence would not only be vulgar, as it certainly is now -but laughable; and would fubject a foreigner who fhould use it so, to derifion. HEROISM, MAGNANIMITY, GALLANTRY, THESE fublime and refpectable, thefe beautiful and glorious adjuncts to true courage, have all fome fhadings of difcrimination that diffinguish them from each other, and keep them pretty clear too of all thofe defcribed in Fages 43-48, fo diftant at leafy that I hope no reader will refufe them a feparate attention; while the HEROISM of Alexander the Great was never controverted, although he certainly fhowed little FIRMNESS when the death of a favourite drove drove him nearly to diftraction, and lefs MAGNANIMITY when he crucified the physician who could not keep him alive. Thefe qualities therefore are apparently and effentially different, and the words which exprefs them are by no means fynonymous; because acts of HEROISM may doubtless be performed by those who can boaft no greatnefs of mind at all-witness Henri Quatre, who wore his white plume purposely to attract danger in the day of battle, yet meanly fhrunk from the avowal of his fentiments in religion, to fecure that crown which at laft coft him fo dear. How different was the truly MAGNANIMOUS Conduct of Socrates, and of Sir Thomas. More, martyrs in the great cause of piety and virtue! Nor will I omit in thefe degenerate days the death-despifing answer of the Abbe Maury, who, when an incenfed multitude were about to hang him at the lantern-poft for oppofing their rebellious and facrilegious projects, crying A la lanterne! à la lanterne with him, replied with a vivacity heightened by just indignation "Et quand je ferois mis à la lanterne, mes amis-en deviendriez-vous pour cela même plus éclairés?" Patterns of FIRMNESS properly fo called are easily culled out from history, or life; and if the difference between this quality and fortitude confifts in one's feeking occafions of endurance, which the other only profeffes to fupport without complaint,-then Mucius Scævola and Charlotte Cordet may be cited as examples of FIRMNESS, which was as glorious in Cran mer, |