mistakes about religion, when they have first mistaken the right end of education; in which, as Lord Bacon observes, "the greatest error of all the rest, is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to vic

tory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrass for a wandering and variable mind, to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for

profit or sale; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.”—Advancement of Learning, Works, vol. ii., p. 433, edit. 1730, fol.

L. 3. Saith Nature." Some of the good things of Nature were suggested by the following drinking-song, quoted by Mr. Mitchell in a note on 1. 477 of the Acharnians of Aristophanes :

L. 19." In their own eye each mote they find." "The man who will not look into the state of his affairs in this world, must be ruined in this world: the man who will not look into the state of his soul, must be ruined for ever." A. W. Hare, Sermons on Lord's Prayer, 6th part. L. 25. "A Show." What show is vainer than a showy shroud? The finery of the living is ridiculous; of the dead, disgusting. Why should we not lie in our coffins in the same garments in

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than perfect cleanliness?

L. 42. "The Cedars." Maundrell visited them on Sunday the 9th of May 1697. "Despairing of any other opportunity," says he, “I made another attempt this day to see the Cedars and Canobine. Having gone for three hours across the plain of Tripoli, I arrived at the foot of Libanus, and from thence continually ascending, not without great fatigue, came in four hours and a half to a