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Collectanea.
opinions . —Be not forward to assign reasons to those who have no right to ask . —Think nothing in conduct unimportant and indifferent . —Rather set than follow examples , practise a strict temperance , and in all your transactions remember tbe final account .
SEVEN WIVES . —Sir Gervase Clifton , a gentleman of Yorkshire , was " blessed with seven wives "—so the epilogue of his own writing says . The first three , who were maidens , he called honourable . The second three , who were widows , he calls worshipful ; and the seventh , who was a servant-maid , born under bis own roof , he calls his well-beloved . Each of the six agreed to the marriage of the next , before her death , and at that awful period were attended by their successors . Sir Gervase lias several children by his last wife , some of whose descendants now enjoy the family estate . He lies buried at the head of his wives .
THE OBJECT OP EDUCATION . —The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think—rather to improve our minds , so as to enable us to think for ourselves , than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men . —Beattie . ORIGIN OF QUARRELS . —The sweetest , the most clinging , affection is often shaken by the slightest breath of unkindness , as the ' delicate rings and tendrils of the vine are agitated by the faintest air that blows in
summer . An unkind word from one belovetl often draws blood from many a heart which would defy the battle-axe of hatred , or the keenest edge of vindictive satire . Nay , the shade , the gloom of the face familiar and dear awakens grief and pain . These are the little thorns which , though men of a rougher form may make their way through them without feeling much , extremely incommode persons of a more refined turn in their journey through life , and make their travelling irksome and unpleasant .
SELF-GOVERNJIENT . —Let not any one say he cannot govern his passions , nor hinder them breaking out and carrying him into action ; for what he can do before a prince or a great man , he can do alone , or in the presence of God , if he will . —Locke . WOMEN are the Corinthian pillars that adorn and support society ; the institutions that protect women throw a shield around children ; and where women and children are provided forman must be secure in his
, rights . COURTSHIP . —Girls , remember that the man who bows , smiles , and says so many soft things to you , has no genuine love ; while he who loves you most sincerely , struggles to hide the weakness of his heart , and frequently appears decidedly awkward . MARRIAGE . —I look upon a man ' s attachment to a woman who
deserves it as the greatest possible safeguard to him in his dealings with the world ; it keeps him from all those small vices which the unfettered youth thinks little of , yet which certainly , though slowly , undermine the foundations of better things , till in the end tlie whole fabric of right and wrong gives way under the assault of temptation . —James .
ENVY . —Envy is a plant of very common growth ; it is , alas ! the moral upas tree of the domestic hearth , whose poisonous influence separates young hearts that should have loved and grown together . Sister too often envies sister , and brother brother . Cain envied Abel ,
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Collectanea.
opinions . —Be not forward to assign reasons to those who have no right to ask . —Think nothing in conduct unimportant and indifferent . —Rather set than follow examples , practise a strict temperance , and in all your transactions remember tbe final account .
SEVEN WIVES . —Sir Gervase Clifton , a gentleman of Yorkshire , was " blessed with seven wives "—so the epilogue of his own writing says . The first three , who were maidens , he called honourable . The second three , who were widows , he calls worshipful ; and the seventh , who was a servant-maid , born under bis own roof , he calls his well-beloved . Each of the six agreed to the marriage of the next , before her death , and at that awful period were attended by their successors . Sir Gervase lias several children by his last wife , some of whose descendants now enjoy the family estate . He lies buried at the head of his wives .
THE OBJECT OP EDUCATION . —The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think—rather to improve our minds , so as to enable us to think for ourselves , than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men . —Beattie . ORIGIN OF QUARRELS . —The sweetest , the most clinging , affection is often shaken by the slightest breath of unkindness , as the ' delicate rings and tendrils of the vine are agitated by the faintest air that blows in
summer . An unkind word from one belovetl often draws blood from many a heart which would defy the battle-axe of hatred , or the keenest edge of vindictive satire . Nay , the shade , the gloom of the face familiar and dear awakens grief and pain . These are the little thorns which , though men of a rougher form may make their way through them without feeling much , extremely incommode persons of a more refined turn in their journey through life , and make their travelling irksome and unpleasant .
SELF-GOVERNJIENT . —Let not any one say he cannot govern his passions , nor hinder them breaking out and carrying him into action ; for what he can do before a prince or a great man , he can do alone , or in the presence of God , if he will . —Locke . WOMEN are the Corinthian pillars that adorn and support society ; the institutions that protect women throw a shield around children ; and where women and children are provided forman must be secure in his
, rights . COURTSHIP . —Girls , remember that the man who bows , smiles , and says so many soft things to you , has no genuine love ; while he who loves you most sincerely , struggles to hide the weakness of his heart , and frequently appears decidedly awkward . MARRIAGE . —I look upon a man ' s attachment to a woman who
deserves it as the greatest possible safeguard to him in his dealings with the world ; it keeps him from all those small vices which the unfettered youth thinks little of , yet which certainly , though slowly , undermine the foundations of better things , till in the end tlie whole fabric of right and wrong gives way under the assault of temptation . —James .
ENVY . —Envy is a plant of very common growth ; it is , alas ! the moral upas tree of the domestic hearth , whose poisonous influence separates young hearts that should have loved and grown together . Sister too often envies sister , and brother brother . Cain envied Abel ,