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beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

a man a woman for her beauty. Collier. Whoever envies another confesses his superiority. Rambler.

way; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Rambler.

The last emission of breath; death. "The groan of expiration." Rambler.

e, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Burke.

acon. There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity. Rambler. Preferred by friendship, and not chosen by sufficiency. Spenser.

tue or religion; a simulation of goodness. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. Rambler. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).

auty. Byron. There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. Rambler.

ours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. Rambler. Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Common wealth. Hobbes.

ough all her train the soft infection ran. Pope. Mankind are gay or serious by infection. Rambler.

mpertinent curiosity. Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity, scrambled in at a high window. Johnson. Curiosity in children nature has provided, to remove that ignorance they were born with; which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull. Locke.

for increase of possession deluges the soul, and we sink into the gulfs of insatiability. Rambler.

Not susceptive or susceptible. [R.] Rambler.

To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.

one. Whoever had qualities to alarm our jealousy, had excellence to deserve our fondness. Rambler.

material things, or to figurative uses. The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor.

ase. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.

ndromache overwhelmed with terror, sends her for consolation to the loom and the distaff. Rambler.

knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events. Memory is the purveyor of reason. Rambler.

A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. Shak.