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( 4 ) “ Why, Sir,” ſaid Johnfon, " a London morning does not go with the fun.”

9. George II. once ſaid of the Duke of Newcaſtle, that he loſt an hour every morning, and was running after it all the reſt of the day. A fine reproof to the indolent.

10. It was a queſtion aſked of the brethren, both in the claſſical and provincial meetings of Miniſters, twice in the year, if they preached the duties of the times? And when it was found that Mr. Leighton did not, he was cenſured for this omiſſion, but ſaid, “ If all the brethren have preached to the times, may not one poor brother be ſuffered to preach on eternity."

11. When one preſented Antipater, King of Macedonia, with a book that treated on happineſs, his anſwer was, “ I am not at leiſure." How many are there who when exhorted to ſtudy their Bible, the true guide to felicity, make the ſame anſwer.

12. When ſome one was talking before that acute Scotchman, Dr Chyne, of the excellence of human nature, " Hoot, hoot mon," ſaid he, “ Human nature is a rogue and a ſcoundrel, or why would it perpetually ſtand in need of laws and religion?” And ſurely if a cauſe be examined by its effects, if a principle be conſidered by its operation, that man muſt indeed be blind who will not acknowledge the depravity of human nature.

13. Mr. Thomas Vincent had the whole New Teſtament and Pſalms by heart. He took this pains, he often ſaid, not knowing but they who took from him his pulpit, might, in tine, demand his Bible alſo.

14. It is ſaid of a captain, of whom hiſtorians have taken more care to record the wiſdom than the name, that he required the Emperor Charles V. to diſcharge him from his ſervice. Charles aſked the reaſon. The prudent ſoldier