accomplish the latter object, we must teach him actively to dance; and the more frequently we cause him to repeat certain movements, short of occasioning fatigue, the more expert will he become in performing them. In like manner, mere information concerning natural objects, their agencies and relations, is instruction; while accustoming children to observe, to discriminate, to arrange, to operate, and to reason for themselves, is training their understanding.

Teaching a child to repeat the precepts and doctrines of the New Testament is instructing him in religion and morality; but he is not trained to religion and morality until he shall have been accustomed to practise these precepts in his daily conduct.

-GEORGE COMBE.

When Antipater demanded of the Spartans fifty of their children as hostages, they wisely replied that they would rather surrender fifty of the most eminent men of the state, whose principles were already formed, than children to whom the want of early instruction would be a loss altogether irrepairable.

Of all measures inaugurated by the great statesmen who were responsible for the consolidation of British rule in India, none has been so fruitful of blessing both to England and this country as the gift of education-blessing them that gave and them that took. It has conduced in innumerable ways, direct and indirect, to the welfare, progress, and development of the country, and at the same time it has contributed in no small measure to strengthen the foundations of the Empire, giving them both stability and permanence.

-THE HON. SIR P. M. MEHTA.

47. ENVY.

And next to him malicious Envy rode
Upon a ravenous wolfe, and still did chaw
Between his cankred teeth a venemous tode,
That all the poison ran about his chaw;
But inwardly he chawed his own maw
At neibors welth, that made him ever sad;
For death it was, when any good he said;
And wept, that cause of weeping none he had,
But, when he heard of harme, he vexed wondrous
glad.

-SPENSER.

Among the base, merit begets envy, among the noble, emulation.

--PROVERB.

Emulation looks out for merits that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may lower another by a defeat.

-COLTON.

An envious man feeds on other's evils, and hath no disease but his neighbour's welfare.

The praise of the envious, is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them-they censure.

-COLTON.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

“ BIBLE-JAMES, 3."

Envy and hate are the bane of the mind,

Good will and love are the bliss of mankind.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

Envy has no holidays.

-BACON.

Thus it is with many mortals,
They desire another's lot,
Dreaming not their secret longings,
Wishing for they know not what.
While the very ones we envy

In their hearts may fret and tire
Of the gifts they do not care for,
And that others most desire.

The envious man is in pain upon all occasions which ought to give him pleasure. The relish of his life is inverted; and the objects which administer the highest satisfaction to those who are exempt from this passion, give the quickest pangs to persons who are subject to it. All the perfections of their fellow-creatures are odious:

youth, beauty, valour, and wisdom are provocations of their displeasure. What a wretched and apostate state is this! To be offended with excellence, and to hate a man because we approve him! The condition of the envious man is the most emphatically miserable; he is not only incapable of rejoicing in another's merit or success, but lives a world wherein all mankind are in a plot against his quiet, by studying their own happiness and advantage.

-ADDISON.

If envy, like did not burn itself in its own anger, fire and consume and destroy those persons it possesses, before it can destroy those it wishes worst to, it would set the whole world on fire, and leave the most excellent persons the most miserable. Of all the affections and passions which lodge themselves within the breast of man, envy is the most troublesome, the most restless, hath the most of malignity, the most of poison in it.* -LORD CLARENDON.

Envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
-ROCHEFOUCauld.

Beware! never invoke evil on the envious man, For the unfortunate wretch is of himself in affliction.

What need (is there) that thou shouldst show him ill-will,

When he has such an enemy (as his own envious nature) in close pursuit of him?

-SADI'S GULISTAN.†

* From Readings in English Prose Literature.

+ Translated by Platts.

What can I do to the envious man? For he is in trouble from his own mind.

Die that thou may'st escape (thy pain), O envious one for this is a malady,

From the annoyance of which thou canst not escape but by death.

-SADI'S GULISTÂN.*

Envy lies between beings equal in nature, though unequal in circumstances.

-JEREMY COLLIER.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy; and therefore kings are not envied but by kings.

-BACON.

The rich are more envied by those, who have a little than by those who have nothing.

The player only envies the player, the poet only envies the poet, because each confines his idea of excellence to his own profession and pursuit, and thinks, if he could but remove some one particular competitor out of his way, he should have a clear stage to himself, and be a "Phoenix gazed by all:" as if, though we crushed one rival, another would not start up; or as if there were not a thousand other claims, a thousand other modes of excellence and praiseworthy acquirements, to divide the palm and defeat his idle pretension to the sole and unqualified admiration of mankind.†

-W. HAZLITT.

Translated by Platts.
From Men and Manners.