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Collectanea.
friendships , but as they tended to favor his objects , and aggrandize his power . He understood better than any other man the art of practising the grimaces and hypocritical cant of all sectaries . Waller , the poet , who knew him well , confirms this account . ' I frequently , ' says he , ' attended him , and observed him to be very well read in Greek and Roman history , for his rude , cant and spiritual complicity were downright affectation . I often took noticethat when a servant has come in
, , and told him so-and-so waited to speak to him , he would instantly rise , and stop there talking at the door , where I could overhear him say , ' the Lord will reveal , the Lord will help , ' and other expressions of the kindwhich , upon returning to me , he would excuse , saying , ' Cousin Waller , I must talk to these men after their own way , ' and would then go on where he left off . This made me believe that he actually despised those he seemed to court . ' No doubt , there are many who , in our day , act
the part of Oliver Cromwell , who make the rabble in politics , and the enthusiasts in religion , as the ladder by which they mount to compass their designs and gratify their ambition , laughing in their sleeves at the folly of the one , and at the credulity of the other !"
WHAT IS DEATH ?— " In the human being , moral and intellectual motives constantly operate in enhancing the fear of death , which , withoutthese motives in a reasoning being , would probably become null , and the love of life be lost upon every slight occasion of pain or disgust ; , but . imagination is creative with respect to both passions , which , if they exist in animals , exist independent of reason , or as instincts . Pain seems intended by an all-wise Providence to prevent the dissolution of organs ,
and cannot follow their destruction . Dr . Cullen , when dying , is said to have faintly articulated to one of his inmates , ' I wish I had the power of writing or speaking , for then I would describe to you how pleasant a thing it is to die . ' Dr . Black , worn out by age , and a disposition to pulmonary haemorrhage , which obliged him to live very low ,, while eating his customary meal of bread and milk , fell asleep , and died in so tranquil a manner , that he had not even spilt the contents of the .
spoon which he held in his hand . And the late Sir Charles Blagden ,. while at a special meal with his friends , Monsieur and Madame Berthollet ' and Guy Lussac , died in his chair so quietly , that not a drop of coffee in the cup which be held in his hand was spilt . "
DOMESTIC RULE . —Domestic rule is founded upon truth arid love . If it have not both of these , it is nothing better than a despotism . It requires the peipetual exercise of love in its most extended form . You have to learn the dispositions of those under you , and to teach them to understand yours . In order to do this , you must sympathise with them , and convince them of your doing so ; for upon your sympathy will often depend their truthfulness . Thus , you must persuade a child to place
confidence in you , if you wish to form an open upright character ; you cannot terrify it into the habits of truth . On the contrary , are not its earliest falsehoods caused by fear , much oftener than from a wish to obtain any of its little ends by deceit ? How often the complaint is heard from those in domestic authority—that they are not confided in ! But they forget how hard it is for an inferior to confide in a superior , and that he will scarcely venture to do so without the hope of some sympathy on the part of the latter , and the more so , as half our confidences are about our follies , or what we deem such . —Essays in the Intervals of Business .
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Collectanea.
friendships , but as they tended to favor his objects , and aggrandize his power . He understood better than any other man the art of practising the grimaces and hypocritical cant of all sectaries . Waller , the poet , who knew him well , confirms this account . ' I frequently , ' says he , ' attended him , and observed him to be very well read in Greek and Roman history , for his rude , cant and spiritual complicity were downright affectation . I often took noticethat when a servant has come in
, , and told him so-and-so waited to speak to him , he would instantly rise , and stop there talking at the door , where I could overhear him say , ' the Lord will reveal , the Lord will help , ' and other expressions of the kindwhich , upon returning to me , he would excuse , saying , ' Cousin Waller , I must talk to these men after their own way , ' and would then go on where he left off . This made me believe that he actually despised those he seemed to court . ' No doubt , there are many who , in our day , act
the part of Oliver Cromwell , who make the rabble in politics , and the enthusiasts in religion , as the ladder by which they mount to compass their designs and gratify their ambition , laughing in their sleeves at the folly of the one , and at the credulity of the other !"
WHAT IS DEATH ?— " In the human being , moral and intellectual motives constantly operate in enhancing the fear of death , which , withoutthese motives in a reasoning being , would probably become null , and the love of life be lost upon every slight occasion of pain or disgust ; , but . imagination is creative with respect to both passions , which , if they exist in animals , exist independent of reason , or as instincts . Pain seems intended by an all-wise Providence to prevent the dissolution of organs ,
and cannot follow their destruction . Dr . Cullen , when dying , is said to have faintly articulated to one of his inmates , ' I wish I had the power of writing or speaking , for then I would describe to you how pleasant a thing it is to die . ' Dr . Black , worn out by age , and a disposition to pulmonary haemorrhage , which obliged him to live very low ,, while eating his customary meal of bread and milk , fell asleep , and died in so tranquil a manner , that he had not even spilt the contents of the .
spoon which he held in his hand . And the late Sir Charles Blagden ,. while at a special meal with his friends , Monsieur and Madame Berthollet ' and Guy Lussac , died in his chair so quietly , that not a drop of coffee in the cup which be held in his hand was spilt . "
DOMESTIC RULE . —Domestic rule is founded upon truth arid love . If it have not both of these , it is nothing better than a despotism . It requires the peipetual exercise of love in its most extended form . You have to learn the dispositions of those under you , and to teach them to understand yours . In order to do this , you must sympathise with them , and convince them of your doing so ; for upon your sympathy will often depend their truthfulness . Thus , you must persuade a child to place
confidence in you , if you wish to form an open upright character ; you cannot terrify it into the habits of truth . On the contrary , are not its earliest falsehoods caused by fear , much oftener than from a wish to obtain any of its little ends by deceit ? How often the complaint is heard from those in domestic authority—that they are not confided in ! But they forget how hard it is for an inferior to confide in a superior , and that he will scarcely venture to do so without the hope of some sympathy on the part of the latter , and the more so , as half our confidences are about our follies , or what we deem such . —Essays in the Intervals of Business .