L. 76 "On widow's or on orphan's tear." It is impossible to name all the passages of the Old Testament, in which Almighty God had regard to widows and orphans. See, among others, the six last verses of Deut. xxiv. In the New Testament we read of the special care of widows in Acts vi., 1: 1 Tim. v., 3, 9, 16; and of the fatherless and widows in James i., 27. Seldom have the embarrassments of widowhood been so feelingly described as in the address to St. Chrysostom from

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his mother, when she urged him to remain with her; as he reports her speech near the beginning of his work on the Priesthood.-Sir H. Savile's ed., tom. VI., p. 2.

L. 116. "The gracious promise flood. Genesis viii., 22.

L. 137. "No angry brow."

after the

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Anger may

kindle in the breast of a wise man, but rests only

in the bosom of a fool."-Scougal, Sermon on Luke vi., 27.

L. 143. "Calm in some dear familiar spot." Goldsmith in " The Deserted Village" makes it a feature in his character of a country clergyman, supposed to be drawn from his father, the Reverend Charles Goldsmith, that he "nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place." A great instance of long abode in one spot is that of Bishop Sanderson, a man eminently calculated to attract notice by wandering, if such had been his aim: " the humble and learned Dr. Sanderson was more than

forty years Parson of Boothby Pannel, and from thence dated all or most of his matchless writings." "Nevertheless, Dr. Sanderson could neither live safe, nor quietly, being several times plundered, and once wounded in three places; but he, apprehending the remedy might turn to a more intolerable burthen by impatience or complaining, forbore both: and possessed his soul in a contented quietness, without the least repining."—Walton's Life of him, prefixed to the eighth edition of his Sermons, pp. 10, 32.

L.157. "Were our globe to stray."

"He

that hath accustomed himself to consider the vastness of the universe, and the small proportion which the point we live in bears to the rest of the world, may perhaps come to think less of the possessions of some acres, or of that fame which can at most spread itself through a small corner of this earth. Whatever be in this, sure I am that the knowledge of God, and the frequent thoughts of Heaven, must needs prove far more effectual to elevate and