Philosophy

Faíne is an undertaker that puys but íittle attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals and follows thcm to the grave. - Colton. Quick is the succession of human events: the cares of to-day are seldora the cares of to-morrow; and when we lie down at nigtit we raay safely say to most of our troubles, Ye have done your vorst, and we shall meet no more.Cowper. Belicve me. sir, those who attempt to level.never eaualize. In all societies consisting of various descriptions of citizens, Eome description must b! uppermost. The levelers, therefore, only change and pervert the natural order of things; they load the ediflce of society by setting up in the air what the so: -Mty of the structure requires to be on ihe ground. - Burke. It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to Jhow him plainly, by examples, that there is nothing which may not be so represented. He wlll hardly need to be told that everything is not a mere joke, and he may thus be secured from ïalling into a contempt of those particular things which he may at any time happen to flnd so treated. - "Whately. Cicero says that "to study philosophy Is nothing but to prepare a man's self to die." The reason of which is, because study and contemplation do in some sort withdraw from us and deprive us oí our souls, and employ it separately from the body, which is a kind of learning to die, and a resemblance of death; or else because all the wisdom and reasoning in the world does ifl the end conclude in this point, to teach us not to fear to die. Touth is the time of enterprise and hope; having yet no occasion of comparing our force with any opposing power, we naturally form presumption in our own favor, and imagine that obstruction and impediment wlll give way before us. The flrst repulses rather inflame vehemence than teach prudence, a brave and generous mind is long before it suspects its own weakness 01 submits to sap the difficulües which it expected to subdue by storm.