many virtues and many vices; will you be so kind as to tell me what they are, and what they are called?

MOTH. Yes, dear; any right action, which is done for the purpose of pleasing GOD is a virtue.

Some of the virtues are industry or diligence, temperance, frugality, patience, humility, meekness, placability, veracity, justice, benevolence, kindness, generosity, Gevotion, and piety. Some of the vicesindolence or idleness, prodigality, intemperance, impatience, pride, peevishness, revenge, falsehood, injustice, malignity, avarice, and profaneness.

Industry, or diligence, consists in being very busy about something, which is useful. The diligent or industrious man is always doing good to himself or òthérs. The indolent man will not work, if he can help it. The idle man does not work. The indolent and the idle therefore are great sinners; because they will not do what God commands.

To be temperáte is to be careful not to eat or drink too much; and this carefulness is called temperance. To eat or drink more than does any good, is intemperance and drunkenness, which is one kind of in temperance, is a very shameful vice. Children, if they do not wish to become drunkards before they die, should never taste of rum or brandy, any more than they should of pason.

Those, who take good care of what they have, and allow nothing to be wasted, are called frugal, and the virtue itself is frugality. Those who waste what they have, are prodigal, and are guilty of the sin of prodigality. Prodigal persons are almost always poor, and are often beggars.

Those, who bear quietly the pains they feel, and the troubles they meet, are 'patient and those, who do not bear such things quietly are impatient. The patient are virtuous, and the impatient are vicious.

Pride consists in thinking ourselves greater, or better, than we are. Humility consists in thinking ourselves nò better, than we are. The proud cannot please GOD; but those who are humble, are sure to please Him.

The meek are those, who are not apt to be angry, though they may be much abused; and their quiet temper, or feeling, is called meekness. Pèevishness is the same as fretfulness; and is a vice which every body hates.

Placability is a willingness to forgive. Revenge consists in hurting those, who have hurt us, which is sometimes called retaliation, or rendering evil for evil.

Veracity is the virtue of always speaking the truth. Falsehood is the vice of telling what is not true.

To do justice, is to do what is right; and those who always do justice, are called just, or honest, or upright. Those, who

break their promises, or will not pay their debts, when they can, are dishonest, and unjust, and deserve not to be trusted.

Benevolence consists in kind wishes; and generosity, in very kind àctions. Malignity is the desire of seeing others unhappy, and is one of the greatest vices in the world. Avarice is too great love of money. It is sometimes called covetousness.* Profaneness means cursing, swearing, or using any name of GoD in angry or trifling talk.

Piety is a desire and endeavour to please GOD by doing everything, which he has a right to expect from us. The pious man. loves GoD, and prays to him, and is very thankful to him, for all the good things GOD does for him. He thinks much of GOD, and endeavours to learn and do his whole duty.

To devote is to give up entirely. A child may give up, or devote himself to play, or he may devote himself to study. He may devote himself to his parents, to do everything they wish, and he may devote himself to GoD, to keep all his commands. A child who devotes himself to GOD, is called a religious child, a pious child, or a devout child. Devotion has

These four words, covetous, grievous, heinous, and mountainous, are sometimes pronounced coveteous, grieveous, hemneous, and mountaineous. This is both vulgar and improper.

the same kind of meaning as devote. It properly means religion or piety, but sometimes it signifies prayer or praise.

THE Chinese are inhabitants of China As foreigners, or people of other countries, have never been allowed to travel much in China, we are not very much acquainted with that country.

We dò know, however, that it is very 'populous, or full of people; and that parents, who have more children than they know how to support, are allowed to throw their infants into the rivers, or the streets; and it is said, that in Pèkín, a very large city, carts are employed every morning to go round, and pick up the children, who have been thrown out the night before, and

carry and throw them, dead or alive, into one pit together.

The Chinese are idòlaters, and their temples, or meeting-houses are called Pagodas.

In China, the men and the women dress very much alike. The men frequently wear petticoats, and the women drawers. The richer people dress much in silks, and the poorer people in cottons.

It is the custom of the Chinese to keep the feet of their female children bound so tight, that they may never grow. Few of their feet are more than five inches long, or two inches broad. Such a miserable and unnatural foot is thought to be indispensable to female beauty.

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DEFINITIONS.

Idolater, a worshipper of false gods.

Custom, what is done by most persons for a long time Abhorrence, hatred, great dislike.