RICH TO ASSIST THE POOR.

EPAMINONDAS, who himself had nothing to give, sent a friend in necessity to a rich citizen, with orders to ask 1000 crowns in. his name. His reason being demanded by the citizen-" Why," said Epaminondas," it is because this honest man " is poor, and you are rich."-That he thought was a sufficient reason.

SAYINGS.

1. ADRIAN, the coadjutor of Ximenes in the government of Castile, was much disturbed at the libels which flew about against them. Ximenes was perfectly easy. "If," said he, "we take the liberty "to act, others will take the liberty to talk, and "write: when they charge us falsely, we may "laugh; when truly, we must amend."

2. Dr. Green of St. John's college, trying to scate, got a terrible fall backwards. " Why, Doc

tor," said a friend who was with him, “ I thought

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you had understood the business better." '0," replied the Doctor, " I have the theory perfectly; "I want nothing but the practice."-How many of us, in matters of a much higher and more impor

tant nature, come under the doctor's predicament! 3. "You have the word, and we have the sword," said Weston to the reformed divines in Queen Mary's time.

4. Cardinal Wolsey's reflection, made just before he expired, should be laid to heart by every man, when tempted to bestow upon the world, or any thing in it, that affection and service which are due to God. --“ Had I but served God as diligently as I have "served the King, HE would not have given me over in my grey hairs."

5. To those, who would win men to religion by fire and faggot, may be applied the remark of the Earl of Huntley, when Protector Somerset marched into Scotland with 18,000 men, to effect a marriage between the young queen of that kingdom and Edward VI.-"That he disliked not the match, "but hated the manner of wooing."

6. A person coming into Melancthon's house, found him holding a book with one hand, and rocking a child with the other. Upon his expressing some surprise, Melancthon made such a pious discourse to him, about the duty of a father, and the state of grace in which children are with God, that this stranger went away, says Bayle, much more edified than he came.

7. Very striking is St. Augustine's reflection, on the effect produced by our Lord's answer to those who came to apprehend him. "I am he. Eyw "." Quid judicaturus faciet, qui judicandus hoc fecit!-How will he act as a judge, who acted thus as a criminal!

8. Melancthon, when he went to the conferences at Spire, in 1529, made a little journey to Bretten, to see his mother. The good woman asked him, what she must believe, amidst so many disputes? and repeated to him her prayers, which contained nothing superstitious. "Go on, mother," said he, "to believe and pray, as you have done, and never "trouble yourself about controversies."-The advice of a wise and a good man.

9. Three or four English gentlemen on their travels through Italy, happening to be at St. Marino, on a fish day, applied to a butcher, to procure for them, if possible, a joint of veal. The butcher said he would do any thing to oblige them, but could not kill for them, as nobody would buy but themselves. They continued very importunate, and offered to take any quantity. "Well, then,

gentlemen," said the fellow, at last, “ I will ven"ture to kill a calf; and, if you will take half of "it to day, I will trust to THE REPUBLIC for the "other half tomorrow."

10. Bajazet, upon the march, at the head of his mighty army, after the capture of his favourite city Sebastia, by the enemy, hearing a poor shepherd playing on his pipe on the side of a hill, exclaimed, -"Happy shepherd, who hast no Sebastia to "lose!"-Knolles.

11. Mahomet II. after he had taken Constantinople, being reproached for spending all his time with Irene, a captive Greek, forgetting his intended conquests, and neglecting the concerns of empire, ordered a convention of all his great men; produced Irene before them; asked them, if they could blame him, when they beheld her? and then, to convince them he could master his passions, seizing her by the hair with his left hand, chopped off her head with his right.

12. Very shrewd and sensible observations are often made by persous disordered in their senses. Dr. Heylyn used to apply, upon this occasion, an old Spanish proverb, which says, that light makes its way into a dark room, through a CRACK.

13. Nec verò ego, says Sadolet, aliud medius fidius statuo esse sapientiam, quàm meminisse unumquemque quid sui officii et muneris sit, idque cum fide et cum integritate præstare. Epist. p. 21. -That, that alone I deem to be wisdom, which

enables a man to keep present to his mind a sense of his duty, and with integrity and firmness to perform it.

14. Many of those fighting heroes, so celebrated in story, may be compared, as Mr. Boyle observes, to worthless gnats, considerable only for their noise and stings with which they disturb men's

rest.

15. Valeria being asked, why, after the death of her husband Servius, she would not marry again? answered," Ideo hoc facio quia Servius meus, licet aliis mortuus sit, apud me vivit, vivetque semper."

-This I do, because my Servius, though dead to others, lives, and will ever live, to me.-See Dieterich. ii. 435.

16. Dr. Johnson being asked, what he thought of the Scotch universities: "Why, Sir," said he, they are like a besieged town, where every man "has a mouthful, and no man has a bellyful."

17. The same person, being asked by some Scotch philosophers, whether he thought a man would exist by choice, or necessity? replied-" If "an Englishman, by choice; if a Scotchman, by "necessity."

18. Rochester said, with astonishment, "That "he did not know how it was, but Lord Dorset