"THOUGH THOU HADST MADE A GENERAL SURVEY A LARGE REVENUE OF THE GOOD IT GAT, WITNESS SO MANY VOLUMES, WHERETO THOU HAST SET THY NOTES UNDER THY LEARNED HAND, AND MARK'D THEM WITH THAT PRINT, AS WILL SHOW HOW DANIEL. Funeral Poem upon the Death of the late Noble Earl of JOHN WOOD WARTER. NEXPECTED and accidental circumstances have entailed upon me the publication of the lamented Southey's CoмMON-PLACE BOOK. Had it been committed to my hands in the first instance, I should probably have made an arrangement somewhat different;-as it is, I carry out, as far as I am enabled to do, the arrangement which is detailed in the publisher's Prospectus. I am the Editor of the present volume, complete in itself, from p. 310; and those who are conversant in literary investigation, will make allowance for such errors as have escaped me. As far as my limited reading, and the resources of a private library, permitted, I have investigated doubtful passages, and have corrected imperfect references. Nothing but reverence for the honoured name of Southey would have induced me, with my clerical calls and studies, to have entered upon the work. The difficulty of carrying it out only, shows the wonderful stores, the accumulated learning, and the unlimited research, of the excellently single-hearted, the devout, and gifted Collector. Most truly may it be said of him, in the words of STEPHEN HAWES, in his "PASTIME OF PLEASURE,"-speaking of MASTER LIDGATE, "And who his bokes list to hear or see, In them he shall find Elocution With as good order as may be, Keeping full close the moralization Whose name is registered in remembraunce, For to endure by long continuance." The headings of such passages as are not bracketed are the lamented Collector's ;-for the rest, (in the quaint Words of old FULLER, in his ABEL REDIVIVES,) "my own meanness" is responsible. I had likewise, in preparing the sheets for the press, added a few notes on difficult and doubtful passages or expressions-but on consideration I crossed them out. One or two inadvertently remain, pp. 444. 515. 523. which may serve as a sample of others. The Index I have taken such pains with as I might. The lines quoted on the fly leaf from Daniel, I have quoted in the new edition of THE DOCTOR, &c. in one volume ;-but they seem, if possible, more to the purpose here. The purity of his English weighs with me, as it did with the lamented Southey. JOHN WOOD WARTER. VICARAGE, WEST TARRING, Sussex, APRIL 10, 1849. 66 Southey's Common-place Book. CHOICE PASSAGES, MORAL, RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL, POETICAL, AND Toleration. MISCELLANEOUS. S to the thing itself," says JEREMY TAYLOR, “ the truth is, it is better in contemplation than practice: for reckon all that is got by it when you come to handle it, and it can never satisfy for the infinite disorders happening in the government, the scandal to religion, the secret dangers to public societies, the growth of heresy, the nursing up of parties to a grandeur so considerable as to be able in their own time to change the laws and the government. So that if the question be, whether mere opinions are to be prosecuted, it is certainly true they ought not. But if it be considered how by opinions men rifle the affairs of kingdoms, it is also as certain, they ought not to be made public and permitted." Ill Religion. "THAT is no good religion," says JEREMY TAYLOR, "whose principles destroy any duty of religion. He that shall maintain it to be lawful to make a war for the defence of his opinion, be it what it will, his doctrine is against godliness. Any thing that is proud, any thing that is peevish and scornful, any thing that is uncharitable, is against the ὑγιαίνεσα διδασκαλία, that form of sound doctrine which the Apostle speaks of." Faith and Opinion. "FAITH," says the Public Friend,' SAMUEL FOTHERGILL," overcomes the World: Opinion is overcome by the World. Faith is triumphant in its power and in its effects; it is of divine tendency to renew the heart, and to produce those fruits of purity and holiness which demonstrate the dignity of its original: Opinion has filled the world, enlarged the field of speculation, and been the cause of producing fruits directly opposite to the nature of faith. Opinion has terminated in schism: Faith is productive of unity." Quaker Dress. SAMUEL FOTHERGILL says to a young man who had laid aside the dress of the Society, and with it some of the moral restrictions which it imposed, "If thou hadst appeared like a religious, sober Friend, those companions who have exceedingly wounded thee, durst not have attempted to frequent B thy company. If thou hadst no other in- | capacity: and as the law was to the Jews, ducement to alter thy dress, I beseech thee so was philosophy to the Gentiles, a schoolto do it to keep the distinction our prin- master to bring them to Christ, to teach ciples lead to, and to separate thee from them the rudiments of happiness, and the fools and fops. At the same time that by first and lowest things of reason; that when a prudent distinction in appearance thou Christ was come all mankind might become scatterest away those that are the bane of perfect,—that is, be made regular in their youth, thou wilt engage the attention of appetites, wise in their understandings, asthose whose company will be profitable sisted in their duties, directed to, and inand honourable to thee." structed in, their great ends. And this is that which the Apostle calls 'being perfect men in Christ Jesus;' perfect in all the intendments of nature, and in all the designs of God. And this was brought to pass by discovering, and restoring, and improving the law of Nature, and by turning it all into religion."-JEREMY TAYLOR, Preface to the Life of Christ. Forms. "LA vraie philosophie respecte les formes autant que l'orgueil les dédaigne. Il faut une discipline pour la conduite, comme il faut un ordre pour les idées. Nier l'utilité des rits et des pratiques religieuses en matière de morale, ce serait nier l'empire des notions sensibles sur des êtres qui ne sont pas de purs esprits; ce serait nier la force de l'habitude." - PORTALIS. (Louis Goldsmith-Recueil, tom. 1. p. 277.) Religious Truths. "LA vérité est comme un rayon du soleil; si nous voulons la fixer en elle-même, elle nous éblouit et nous aveugle: mais si nous ne considérons que les objets qu'elle nous rend sensibles, elle éclaire à la fois notre esprit et réchauffe notre cœur."--SAINTPIERRE.-Harmonies de la Nature, tom. 3. p. 2. The Two Gates of Heaven. "DIEU a mis sur la terre deux portes qui mènent au ciel: il les a placées aux deux extrémités de la vie; l'une à l'entrée, l'autre à la sortie. La première est celle de l'innocence, la dernière est celle du répentir."-SAINT-PIERRE.-Harmonies de la Nature, tom. 3. p. 150. Christianity. "FOR certain it is, Christianity is nothing else but the most perfect design that ever was, to make a man be happy in his whole Law. THE Jesuit P. RICHEOME says of the law, that "entre toutes les parties de ceste faculté la preud-hommie et bonne conscience est la plus rare, et la plus requise à un advocat Chrestien. C'est pour elle que les Advocats renouvellent tous les ans leur serment à la Saint Martin, ceremonie qui monstre que c'est la qualité la plus necessaire de toutes au jugement des bons juges." -Plainte Apologetique, p. 69. Bonum and Bene. Ir was well said by the Scotch Jesuit, WILLIAM CRITTON (Crichton?) "Deum magis amare adverbia quam nomina: quia in additionibus (actionibus?) magis ei placent BENE et LEGITIME quam bonum et legitimum. Ita ut nullum bonum liceat facere nisi BENE et LEGITIME fieri possit." Hume's Opinion of the Stability of American HUME says, speaking of our first plantations in America, "Speculative reasoners during that age, raised many objections to the planting of those remote colonies, |