’Tis he whose every thought and deed By rules of virtue moves; Whose generous tongue disdains to speak The thing his heart disproves. Who never did a slander forge, His neighbor’s fame to wound, Nor hearken to a false report, By malice whispered round. Who vice, in all its pomp and power, Can treat with just neglect, And piety, though clothed in rags, Religiously respect. Who to his plighted vows and trust Has ever firmly stood; And though he promise to his loss, He makes his promise good. Whose soul in usury disdains His treasure to employ; Whom no rewards can ever bribe The guiltless to destroy. MISQUOTATIONS FROM SCRIPTURE. “God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.”[7] From Sterno’s _Sentimental Journey to Italy_. Compare Isaiah xxvii. 8. Footnote 7: In a collection of proverbs published in 1594, we find, “_Dieu mesure le vent à la brebis tondue_,” and Herbert has in his Jacula Prudentum, “To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure.” “In the midst of life we are in death.” From the Burial Service; and this, originally, from a hymn of Luther. “Bread and wine which the Lord hath commanded to be received.” From the English Catechism. “Not to be wise above what is written.” Not in Scripture. “That the Spirit would go from heart to heart as oil from vessel to vessel.” Not in Scripture. “The merciful man is merciful to his beast.” The scriptural form is, “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast.”—Prov. xii. 10. “A nation shall be born in a day.” In Isaiah it reads, “Shall a nation be born at once?”—lxvi. 8. “As iron sharpeneth iron, so doth a man the countenance of his friend.” “Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.” Prov. xxvii. 17. “That he who runs may read.” “That he may run that readeth.”—Hab. ii. 2. “Owe no man any thing but love.” “Owe no man any thing, but to love one another.”—Rom. xiii. 8. “Prone to sin as the sparks fly upward.” “Born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.”—Job v. 7. “Exalted to heaven in point of privilege.” Not in the Bible. Eve was not Adam’s _helpmate_, but merely a help meet for him; nor was Absalom’s long hair, of which he was so proud, the instrument of his destruction;[8] his head, and not the hair upon it, having been caught in the boughs of the tree. (2 Samuel xviii. 9.) Footnote 8: A London periwig-maker once had a sign upon which was painted Absalom suspended from the branches of the oak by his hair, and underneath the following couplet:—