book iv
. Winter Evening, line 34._
[358-1] The line was altered after the second edition to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine."
JOHN DYER. 1700-1758.
A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter's day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave.
_Grongar Hill. Line 88._
Ever charming, ever new, When will the landscape tire the view?
_Grongar Hill. Line 102._
Disparting towers Trembling all precipitate down dash'd, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.
_The Ruins of Rome. Line 40._
PHILIP DODDRIDGE. 1702-1751.
Live while you live, the epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day; Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies. Lord, in my views, let both united be: I live in pleasure when I live to thee.
_Epigram on his Family Arms._[359-1]
Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown.
_Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race._
FOOTNOTES:
[359-1] Dum vivimus vivamus (Let us live while we live).--ORTON: _Life of Doddridge._
JOHN WESLEY. 1703-1791.
That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a Slave Trade.
_Journal. Feb. 12, 1772._
Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."[359-2]
_Sermon xciii. On Dress._
I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.[359-3]
FOOTNOTES:
[359-2] See Bacon, page 170.
[359-3] Given as a saying of Wesley, in the "Saturday Review," Nov. 28, 1874.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.[359-4] 1706-1790.
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.[359-5]
_Historical Review of Pennsylvania._
God helps them that help themselves.[360-1]
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.[360-2]
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
Three removes are as bad as a fire.
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
Little strokes fell great oaks.[360-3]
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
A little neglect may breed mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.[360-4]
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.[360-5]
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
_Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757._
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.[361-1]
_Letter to William Strahan, 1745._
Remember that time is money.
_Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748._
Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter.
_Letter on the Stamp Act, July 1, 1765._
Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug.[361-2]
_Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, September, 1772._
There never was a good war or a bad peace.[361-3]
_Letter to Josiah Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773._
You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
_Letter to William Strahan, July 5, 1775._
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
_At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776._
He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.
_The Whistle. November, 1779._
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
_Letter to Washington, March 5, 1780._
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
_Letter to M. Leroy, 1789._
FOOTNOTES:
[359-4] Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis (He snatched the lightning from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants),--a line attributed to Turgot, and inscribed on Houdon's bust of Franklin. Frederick von der Trenck asserted on his trial, 1794, that he was the author of this line.
[359-5] This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's "Historical Review," 1759, appearing also in the body of the work.--FROTHINGHAM: _Rise of the Republic of the United States, p. 413._
[360-1] See Herbert, page 206.
[360-2] CLARKE: _Paræmiolgia, 1639._
My hour is eight o'clock, though it is an infallible rule, "Sanat, sanctificat, et ditat, surgere mane" (That he may be healthy, happy, and wise, let him rise early).--_A Health to the Gentle Profession of Serving-men, 1598_ (reprinted in Roxburghe Library), _p. 121._
[360-3] See Lyly, page 32.
[360-4] See Tusser, page 21.
[360-5] See Heywood, page 11.
[361-1] Byron's European fame is the best earnest of his immortality, for a foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.--HORACE BINNEY WALLACE: _Stanley, or the Recollections of a Man of the World, vol. ii. p. 89._
[361-2] Snug as a bug in a rug.--_The Stratford Jubilee, ii. 1, 1779._
[361-3] It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war.--SAMUEL BUTLER: _Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler's Remains._
NATHANIEL COTTON. 1707-1788.
If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam. The world has nothing to bestow; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
_The Fireside. Stanza 3._
To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are deni'd, And pleas'd with favours given,-- Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part; This is that incense of the heart[362-1] Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
_The Fireside. Stanza 11._
Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.
_The Fireside. Stanza 31._
Yet still we hug the dear deceit.
_Content. Vision iv._
Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.
_To-morrow._
HENRY FIELDING. 1707-1754.
All Nature wears one universal grin.
_Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1._
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.
_Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 2._
When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more.
_Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3._
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.
_Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3._
To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.
_Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3._
Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.[363-1]
_Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6._
I am as sober as a judge.[363-2]
_Don Quixote in England. Act iii. Sc. 14._
Much may be said on both sides.[363-3]
_The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act i. Sc. 8._
Enough is equal to a feast.[363-4]
_The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1._
We must eat to live and live to eat.[363-5]
_The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 3._
Penny saved is a penny got.[363-6]
_The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12._
Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef!
_The Grub Street Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2._
This story will not go down.
_Tumble-down Dick._
Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?
_Tom Jones. Book iv . Chap. iv._
Distinction without a difference.
_Tom Jones. Book vi . Chap. xiii._
Amiable weakness.[364-1]
_Tom Jones. Book x . chap. viii._
The dignity of history.[364-2]
_Tom Jones. Book xi . Chap. ii._
Republic of letters.
_Tom Jones.