CONVERSE and SOLITUDE.

'Tis converse qualifies for solitude

As exercise for salutary rest;

By that untutor'd, contemplation raves,
And nature's fool by wisdom's is outdone.

Night Thoughts II. Line 494.-EDWARD YOUNG.

CO-OPERATION. Advantages of

All improvements in the productive powers of labour, including division of employments, depend upon co-operation. Co-operation appears to be of two distinct kinds: first, such co-operation as takes place when several persons help each other in the same employment; secondly, such co-operation as takes place when several persons help each other in different employments. These may be termed simple co-operation and complex co-operation. It will be seen presently, that, until men help each other in simple operations, they cannot well help each other in operations which consist of several parts.

Note to Wealth of Nations.-E. G. WAKEFIELD.

COQUETRY.

The greatest miracle of love is the reformation of

a coquette.

COUNSEL,

Maxims, LXX.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust

of giving counsel; for in other confidences men commit the parts of life, their lands, their goods, their children, their credit, some particular affair; but to such as they make their counsellors they commit the whole; by how much the more they are obliged to all faith and integrity. Essay on Counsel.-LORD BACON.

COUNTRY. Love of

I do love

My country's good, with a respect more tender,
More holy and profound, than mine own life.

COUNTRY.

Coriolanus, Act III. Scene III.—SHAKSPERE.

Love of Native

What strong mysterious links enchain the heart
To regions where the morn of life was spent!
In foreign lands, though happier be the clime,
Though round our board smile all the friends we love,
The face of nature wears a stranger's look:

Yea, though the valley which we loved be swept
Of its inhabitants, none left behind,

Not even the poor blind man who sought his bread
From door to door, still, still there is a want;
Yes, even he, round whom a night that knows
No dawn has ever spread, whose native vale
Presented to his closed eyes a blank,—

Deplores its distance now.

The Sabbath.-JAMES GRAHAME.

COURAGE.

No man can answer for his courage who has never been in danger. Maxims, ccccxxXIII.-ROCHEFOUcault.

COURTIER.

Recommendations for a

'Faith, you may entreat him to take notice of me for anything; for being an excellent farrier, for playing well at span-counter, or sticking knives in walls; for being impudent, or for nothing; why may I not be a favourite on the sudden? I see nothing against it.

COURTIER.

The Woman-Hater, Act I. Scene III.
BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

Proof of a good

I have trod a measure; I have flattered a lady; I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy; I have undone three tailors; I have had four quarrels, and like to have fought one.

As You Like It, Act v. Scene IV.-SHAKSPERE.

This man loves to eat good meat; always provided he do not pay for it himself.

He goes by the name of

His nose, provided that the loss of it

Might have saved the rest of his face.

He is, sir,

The most unutterable coward that e'er nature

Bless'd with hard shoulders; which were only given

him

To the ruin of bastinadoes.—I'll hazard

My life upon it, that a boy of twelve

Should scourge him hither like a parish top,

And make him dance before you.

Thierry and Theodoret, Act II.-BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.

COWARDS are Bred. How

Plenty and peace breeds cowards; hardness ever

Of hardiness is mother.

Cymbeline, Act III. Scene VI.-SHAKSPERE.

CREDITORS and DEBTORS.

Creditors have better memories than debtors: cre

ditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of days

and times.

CRIMES.

The Way to Wealth.-DR. FRANKLIN.

We easily forget crimes that are known only to ourselves. Maxims, LXXIV.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

CUNNING.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow. King Henry VI. Part III. Act IV. Scene VII.-SHAKSPERE.

The greatest of all cunning is, to seem blind to the snares laid for us; men are never so easily deceived as while they are endeavouring to deceive others.

CURIOSITY.

Maxims, LXXVII.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

Vain

It is an evil incident to man,

And of the worst that, unexplored, he leaves
Truths useful and attainable with ease,

To search forbidden deeps, where mystery lies
Not to be solved, and useless if it might.
Mysteries are food for angels; they digest
With ease, and find them nutriment; but man,
While yet he dwells below, must stoop to glean
His manna from the ground, or starve and die.
Vain Curiosity.-WM. COWPER.

There is a flower, a little flower,
With silver crest and golden eye,
That welcomes every changing hour,
And weathers every sky.

The Daisy.-JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r,
Thou'st met me in an evil hour;