MISCELLANEOUS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 2, 2 June 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue ; but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees 'perfect ; if ill disposed, will, by the superinduction of ill habits, quickly deface it. It costs very nearly three times us much to live now as it did forty years ago, and very nearly double the cost of twenty years ago, But then wages have also very much increased, and people enjoy more luxuries than they did then. Eloquence, when at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection n but addresses itself entirely to the fancy or the affections, captivates the willing hearers, and subdues their understanding. Happily, the pitch it seldom attains. Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom ; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity ; her abode is the Valley of Happiness. She is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as wheu contrasted with her opponent —Disorder. Choose ever the plainest road ; it always answers best. For the same reason, choose ever to do and say what is the most just and the most correct. This conduct will save a thousand blushes, and a thousand struggles, and will deliver you from those secret torments which are the never-failing attendants of dissimulation. The time and labor are worse than useless that have been occupied in laying up treasures of false knowledge, which it will be necessary to unlearn, and in storing up mistaken ideas which we must hereafter remember to forget. An ancient teacher of rhetoric always demanded a double fee from those pupils who had been instructed by others, for in that case he had not only to plant bat to root out.