The piramids of Egypt have stood more than three thousand years. Precepts have small influence, when not inforced by example. How has kind Heav'n adorn'd the happy land, And scatter'd blessings with a wastful hand! A friend exaggarates a man's virtues, an enemy enflames his crimes. A witty and humourous vein has often produced ennemies. Neither pleasure nor buisness should ingross our time and affections; proper seasons should be alotted for retirment. It is laudable to enquire before we determin. Many have been visitted with afflictions, who have not profitted by them. We may be succesful, and yet disappointed. SECTION 4. THE experience of want inhances the value of plenty. To maintain opinions stifly, is no evidence of their truth, or of our moderation. Horehound has been famous for its medecinal qualities; but it is now little used. The wicked are often ensnared in the trap which they lie for others. ES It is hard to say what diseases are cureable: they are all under the guidence of Heaven. Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach; but have skil in the method of teaching, and patience in the practise. Science strengthens and inlarges the minds of men. A steady mind may receive council: but there is no hold on a changable humour. We may enure ourselvs by custom, to bear the extremities of whether without injury. Excessive merryment is the parent of greif. Air is sensable to the touch by its motion, and by its resistence to bodies moved in it. A polite address is sometimes the cloke of malice. To practice virtue is the sure way to love it. Many things are plausable in theory, which fail in practise. Learning and knowlege must be attained by slow degrees and are the reward only of dilligence and patience. We should study to live peacably with all men. A soul that can securly death defy, And count it nature's priviledge to die. Whatever promotes the interest of the soul, is also condusive to our present felicity. Let not the sterness of virtue afright us; she will soon become aimable. The spatious firmament on high, With all the blue etheriel sky, And spangled heav'ns, a shineing frame, Passion is the drunkeness of the mind: it supercedes the workings of reason. If we are sincere, we may be assured of an advocate to intersede for us. We ought not to consider the encrease of another's reputation, as a dimunition of our own. The reumatism is a painful distemper, supposed to procede from acrid humors. The beautiful and accomplished, are too apt to study behaivour rather than virtue. The peazant's cabbin contains as much content as the soverein's pallace. True valor protects the feeble, and humbles the oppresser. David, the son of Jesse, was a wise and valient man. Prophecies and miracles proclamed Jesus Christ to be the savior of the world. Esau sold his birthright for a savory mess of potage. A regular and virteous education, is an inesteemable blessing. Honor and shame from no condition rise: The rigor of monkish disciplin often conceals great depravity of heart. We should recollect, that however favorable we may be to ourselves, we are rigourously examined by others. SECTION 5. VIRTUE can render youth, as well as old age, honorable. Rumor often tells false tales. Weak minds are rufled by triffling things. The cabage-tree is very common in the Caribbee ilands, where it grows to a prodigious heighth. on. Visit the sick, feed the hungry, cloath the naked. His smiles and tears are too artifitial to be relied The most essensial virtues of a Christian, are love to God and benevolence to man. We should be chearful without levity. A calender signifies a register of the year; and a calendar, a press in which clothiers smooth their cloth. Integrity and hope are the sure paliatives of sorrow. Camomile is an odouriferous plant, and possesses considerable medicinel virtues. The gaity of youth should be tempered by the precepts of age. Certainty, even on distresful occasions, is somtimes more elligible than suspence. Still green with bays each antient alter stands, The most acceptable sacrifise, is that of a contrite and humble heart. We are accountable for whatever we patronize in others. It marks a savage disposition, to tortur animals, to make them smart and agonise, for our diversion. The edge of cloath, where it is closed by complicating the threads, is called the selvidge. Soushong tea and Turky coffee were his favorite beveridge; chocolade he seldom drank. The guilty mind cannot avoid many melancholly apprehensions. If we injure others, we must expect retalliation. Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind. Peace and honor are the sheeves of virtue's harvest. The black earth, every where obvious on the surface of the ground, we call mold. The Roman pontif claims to be the supream head of the church on earth. High-seasoned food viciates the pallate, and occasions a disrelish for plain fare. The conscious receivor is as bad as the thief. Alexander, the conquerer of the world, was, in fact, a robber and a murderer. The Divine Being is not only the Creater, but the Ruler and Preservor of the world. |