ile of the dust, when presuming to address Him, whose
greatness is tremenduous beyond all created conception. In intercession
for our fellow creatures, which is prescribed in the scriptures, and in
thanksgiving, the countenance will naturally assume a small degree of
cheerfulness beyond what it was clothed with in confession of sin, and
deprecation of punishment. But all affected ornament of speech, or
gesture in devotion, deserves the severest censure, as being somewhat
much worse than absurd.

_Respect_ for a superior, puts on the looks and gesture of modesty. See
_Modesty_.

_Hope_ brightens the countenance; arches the eyebrows; gives the eyes an
eager, wishful look; opens the mouth to half a smile; bends the body a
little forward, the feet equal; spreads the arms, with the hands open,
as to receive the object of its longings. The tone of the voice is eager
and unevenly, inclining to that of joy, but curbed by a degree of doubt
and anxiety. Desire differs from hope as to expression, in this
particular, that there is more appearance of doubt and anxiety in the
former than in the latter. For it is one thing to desire what is
agreeable, and another to have a prospect of actually obtaining it.

_Desire_ expresses itself by bending the body forward, and stretching
the arms toward the object, as to grasp it. The countenance smiling, but
eager and wishful; the eyes wide open, and eyebrows raised; the mouth
open; the tone of voice suppliant, but lively and cheerful, unless there
be distress as well as desire; the expressions fluent and copious: if no
words are used, sighs instead of them; but this is chiefly in distress.

_Love_ (successful) lights up the countenance into smiles. The forehead
is smoothed and enlarged; the eyebrows are arched; the mouth a little
open, and smiling; the eyes languishing, and half shut, doat upon the
beloved object. The countenance assumes the eager and wishful look of
desire, (see _Desire_ above) but mixed with an air of satisfaction and
repose. The accents are soft and winning; the tone of voice persuasive,
flattering, pathetic, various, musical, rapturous, as in joy. (See
_Joy_.) The attitude much the same with that of desire. Sometimes both
hands pressed eagerly to the bosom. Love, unsuccessful, adds an air of
anxiety and melancholy. See _Perplexity_ and _Melancholy_.

_Giving_, _Inviting_, _Soliciting_. and such-like actions, which suppose
some degree of affection, real or pretended, ar