The importance of the Stomach in the animal economy can hardly be exaggerated. It was called at one time the "Seat of the Soul;" and by Haller was poetically designated "the Conscience of the Body;"-of all the organs belonging to human nature, the most ill-used. Young women are the stuff old women are made of. How many allowed people in society resemble Rabelais' Panurge, who was "a very gallant man of his person, only that he was naturally subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money; yet notwithstanding, he had threescore and three tricks to help himself at his need, of which the most honourable and most ordinary was by the way of filching; for he was a quarrelsome bully, a sharper, drinker, royster, and a very dissolute and debauched fellow ;—otherwise, and in all matters else, the best man in the world." Instruct your son well yourself, or others will instruct him ill for you. No child goes altogether untaught— send him to the school of wisdom, or he will go himself to the rival academy kept by the lady with the cap and bells. There is always teaching going on of some sort, just as in fields vegetation is never idle. By a usual and apposite manner of speaking, our tenour of life is called a way; our conversation, walking; our actions, steps; our observing good laws, up rightness; our transgressing of them, tripping, faltering, falling. Nothing but plain malevolence can justify disunion of friendship. Malevolence is shown, either in a single outrage unretracted, or in habitual ill-nature. Such behaviour, it must be confessed, is a common breach of articles; it strikes at the fundamentals, and makes a correspondence impracticable. When the engagement proves thus unlucky, the way is to draw off by degrees, and not to come to an open rupture. Let the acquaintance be decently buried, and the flame rather go out than be smothered ;-for, as Cato well observes, though in the phrase of a sempstress, Friendship ought not to be ripped, but unstitched. Though a Christian must not seek revenge, yet he may break off friendship and familiarity with one who injures him, or displays such evil points in his character as were before hidden; treating him as the Jews do heathens and publicans, with whom they hold no religious intercourse. If a man cheat or abuse me once, it is his fault; but if twice, it is my own. Enlarge the province of Conscience, and make it condescend to what may appear minor matters. Have a conscience in whatever you do, and in the manage ment of your mind and of your powers. Gird up the loins of your mind. Watch yourself-notice when you fail, and keep some kind of journal of your failures. Above all, avoid the coolness, the indifference, the illogical indifference which so many men who profess to believe in the all-important, the stupendous subject, allow themselves practically, with regard to Religion. Hold fast by the Faith! The world does not want good hearts, but regulated minds; not uncertain impulses, but virtuous principles. Rightly cultivate the head, and the heart will take care of itself; for knowledge is the parent of good, not good of knowledge. We are told in the Scriptures, that it was the wise men of the East who followed the star which led them to their God. As in the next world, so in this, the only solid blessings are owing to the goodness of the mind, not the extent of the capacity. Friendship here, is an emanation from the same source as Beatitude there. END OF VOL. I. BILLING, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, GUILDFORD, SURKEY. 30, WILBECK STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE, LONDON. MR. NEWBY'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. w wwwww I. In 2 vols. post 8vo., price 21s. Author of "Memoirs of Charles Mathews," "Tea Table II. In 2 vols., post 8vo., price 21s. AN OLD ROAD AND AN OLD RIVER, BY WILLIAM A. ROSS, Author of "A Yatch-Voyage to Norway Sweeden, and Denmark." III. In 1 vol. post 8vo., price 10s. 6d. PERILS AND PANICS Of Volunteers and Invasions in 1796-7-8, 1805, and at the Present Time, BY HUMPHREY BLUNT. In 1 vol., post 8vo., plates, price 10s. 6d. DEAFNESS & DISEASES OF THE EAR, The Fallacies of present treatment exposed and Remedies suggested from the experience of half-a-century, BY W. WRIGHT, Esq. Surgeon Aurist (by Royal Sign Manual,) to Her Majesty, the late Queen Charlotte, &c. V. In 1 vol., post 8vo. with map, price 7s. 6d. AN EMIGRANT'S FIVE YEARS IN THE FREE STATES OF AMERICA, BY WILLIAM HANCOCK. VI. In 1 vol. crown 8vo., price 2s. THOMAS MOORE-HIS LIFE AND WRITINGS, BY HENRY MONTGOMERY, ESQ. VII. In 1 vol. post 8vo., price 10s. 6d. FROM MORN TILL EVE IN EURORE, BY MRS. AGAR, Author of "The Knights of the Cross," &c. VIII. In 1 vol. post 8vo., price 5s. SPIRITUALISM AND THE AGE WE LIVE IN, BY MRS. CROWE, Author of "The Night Side of Nature," "Ghost Stories, &c. |