Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Undo habeas nemo quaerit, sed oportet habere. Quorum animis, a prima lamigine, non insedit illud ? " And what Catullus told his Lesbia, is it not approved to this day by the largest part of the great female world ? Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus, Rumoresque Senum severiorum, Omnes unius aestimemus assis. Soles occidere et redire possunt, Nobis, cum semel occidit brevis lux, Nox est perpetua una dormiendo. discunt omnes ante Alpha et Beta puell.i'. The girls all learn this lesson before their ABC; and as to the opinion of the poet, it shews how sadly the Augustan age, with all its learning, and polite advantages, was corrupted : and as Virgil makes a jest of his own fine description of a paradise of the Elysian fields ; as is evident from his dismissing his hero out of the ivory gate ; which shews he was of the school of Epicurus ; it is from these things manifest, that we can never be thankful enough for the principles and dictates of revealed religion : we can never sufficiently adore the goodness of the most glorious Eternal for the gospel of Jesus Christ ; which open the unbounded regions of eternal day to the virtuous and charitable, and promises them a rest from labour, and ever blooming joys ; while it condemns the wicked to the regions of horror and solid darkness ; that dreadful region, from whence the cries of misery for ever ascend, but can never reach the throne of mercy. O heavenly religion ! designed to make men good, and for ever happy ; that preserves the dignity of human nature, guards and increases virtue, and brings us to the realms of perfect reason and excellent glory. " But," continued this fine old gentleman, " Tibullus has ever pleased me in the description of his mistress : — Illam quicquid agit, quoquo vestigia flectit, Componit furt...