To describe, in a general manner, what is the ordinary way of acting to which each virtue would prompt us, is still more easy.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes,
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.

The violent and sudden change produced upon the mind, when an emotion of any kind is brought suddenly upon it, constitutes the whole nature of Surprise.

IT is evident that the mind takes pleasure in observing the resemblances that are discoverable betwixt different objects.

Comets, eclipses, thunder, lightning, and other meteors, by their greatness, naturally overawe him, and he views them with a reverence that approaches to fear.

OF all the phenomena of nature, the celestial appearances are, by their greatness and beauty, the most universal objects of the curiosity of mankind.

The species of objects in the Heavens are few in number; the Sun, the Moon, the Planets, and the Fixed Stars, are all which those philosophers could distinguish

According to Plato and Timæus, the principles out of which the Deity formed the World, and which were themselves eternal, were three in number.

THE most perfect imitation of an object of any kind must in all cases, it is evident, be another object of the same kind, made as exactly

AFTER the pleasures which arise from the gratification of the bodily appetites, there seem to be none more natural to man than Music and Dancing.

The imitative powers of Dancing are much superior to those of instrumental Music, and are at least equal, perhaps superior, to those of any other art.

The simple note of such instruments, it is true, is generally a very clear, or what is called a melodious, sound.

This power or quality of resistance we call Solidity; and the thing which possesses it, the Solid Body or Thing.

Nobody ever fancies that our food feels its own agreeable or disagreeable taste.

EVERY smell or odour is naturally felt as in the nostrils;

Sound is not naturally felt as resisting or pressing upon the organ, or as in any respect external to, or independent of, the organ.

That the objects of Sight are not perceived as resisting or pressing upon the organ which perceives them, is sufficiently obvious.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather or prunello;

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