fidence do her sincerity, her constancy and her faithfulness inspire, that her friends commit to her breast, their most private concerns, without suspicion.

26. It is her favourite maxim, that a necessity of exacting promises of secrecy, is a burlesque upon every pretension to friendship. Such is the character of the young, the amiable Juliana.

27. If it is possible for her to find a man who knows her worth and has a disposition and virtues to reward it, the union of their hearts must secure that unmingled felicity in life, which is reserved for genuine love, a passion inspired by sensibility, and improved by a perpetual intercourse of kind offices.

XXVII. RULES FOR BEHAVIOUR.

N EVER let your mind be absent in company. Command and direct your attention to the present object, an det distant objects be banished from the mind. There is time ough for every thing in the course of the day, if you do bu one thing at once; but there is not time enough in the year, f you will do two things at a time.

2. Never ttempt to tell a story with which you are not well acquainted; nor fatigue your hearers with relating littrifling circumstances. Do not interrupt the thread of dishe, an with a thousand hems, and by repeating often says and precise I. Relate the principal points with clearness 3. There is a you will be heard with pleasure. Modesty is the characw.between modesty and bashfulness. *ss discovers a degree of mean amiable mind; bashfulng man into low company so surely Nothing sinks a If he thinks he shall not please, he mosfulness. not. Vice and ignorance are the only things we oug will be ashamed of; while we keep clear of them we may venture a where without fear or concern.

5. Freuent good company-copy their manners-imitate their virtus and accomplishments.

6. Be not very free in your remarks upon characters. There may be in all companies, more wrong heads than right ones; more people who will deserve, than who will bear censure.

7. Never hold any body by the button or the hand, in order to be heard through your story; for if people are not

willing to hear you, you had much better hold you tongue than hold them.

8. Never whisper in company. Conversation is common stock, in which all persons present have a right to claim their share. Always listeh when you are spoken to ; and never interrupt a speaker.

9. Be not forward in leading the conversation-this belongs to the oldest person in company. Display your learning only on particular occasions. Never oppose the opinion of another but with great modesty.

10. On all occasions avoid speaking of yourself, if it is possible. Nothing that we can say of ourselves will varnish our defects, or add lustre to our virtues; but on the contrary, it will often make theformer more visible,and the latter,obscure.

11. Be frank, open, and ingenuous in your behaviour; and always look people in the face when you speak to them. Never receive nor retail scandal. In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is as bad as the thief.

12. Never reflect upon bodies of men, either clergymen, lawyers, physicians, or soldiers: nor upon nations and societies. There are good as well as bad, in all orders of men, and in all countries.

13. Mimickry is a common and favourite amusement of low minds, but should be despised by all great ones. We should neither practise it ourselves, nor praise it in others. Let your expenses be less than your income.

14. A fool squanders away without credit or advantage to himself, more than a man of sense spends with both. A wise man employs his money, as he does his time, he never spends a shilling of the one, nor a minute of the other, but in something that is either useful or rationally pleasing, The fool buys what he does not want, but does not pay for what he stands in need of.

15. Form no friendships hastily. Study a character well before you put confidence in the person. Every person is entitled to civility, but very few to confidence. The Spanish proverb says, "Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are." The English say, "A man is known

by the company he keeps."

16. Good breeding does not consist in low bows, and formal ceremony: But in an easy, civil and respectful behaviour. 17. A well bred man is polite to every person, but particu

larly to strangers. In mixed companies every person who is admitted, is supposed to be on a footing of equality with the rest, and consequently claims very justly every mark of civility.

18. Be very attentive to neatness. The hands, nails and teeth should be kept clean. A dirty mouth is not only disagreeable, as it occasions an offensive breath, but almost infallibly causes a decay and loss of teeth.

19. Never put your fingers in your nose or ears-it is a vulgar rudeness and an affront to company.

20. Be not a sloven in dress, nor a fop. Let your dress be neat, and as fashionable as your circumstances and convenience will admit. It is said that a man who is negligent at twenty years of age, will be a sloven at forty, and intolerable at fifty.

21. It is necessary sometimes to be in haste; but always wrong to be in a hurry. A man in a hurry perplexes himself; he wants to do every thing at once, and does nothing at all.

22. Frequent and loud laughter, is the characteristic of folly and ill manners-it is the manner in which silly people express their joy at silly things.

23. Humming a tune within yourself, drumming with your fingers, making a noise with the feet, whistling, and such aukward habits, are all breaches of good manners, and indications of contempt for the persons present.

24. When you meet people in the street, or in a public place, never stare them full in the face.

25. When you are in company with a stranger, never begin to question him about his name, his place of residence, and his business. This impudent curiosity is the height of

ill manners.

26. Some persons apologize, in a good natured manner, for their inquisitiveness, by an, " If I may be so bold""If may take the liberty;" or, "Pray Sir, excuse my freedom." These attempts to excuse one's self, imply, that a man thinks himself an impudent fellow-and if he does not, other people think he is, and treat him as such.

27. Above all, adhere to morals and religion, with immoveable firmness. Whatever effect outward show and accomplishments may have, in recommending a man to others, none but the good is really happy in himself.

XXVIII. Family Disagreements the frequent cause of Immoral Conduct.

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FTER all our complaints of the uncertainty of human affairs, it is undoubtedly true, that more misery is produced among us by the irregularities of our tempers, than by real misfortunes.

2. And it is a circumstance particularly unhappy, that these irregularities of the temper are most apt to display themselves at our fire-sides, where every thing ought to be tranquil and serene.

3. But the truth is we are awed by the presence of strangers, and are afraid of appearing weak and ill natured, when we act in sight of the world; and so, very heroically, reserve all our ill humour for our wives, children and servants. We are meek, where we might meet with opposition, but feel ourselves undauntedly bold, where we are sure of no effectual resistance.

4. The perversion of the best things converts them to the worst. Home is certainly well adapted to repose and solid enjoyment. Among parents and brothers, and all the tender charities of private life, the gentler affections, which are always attended with feelings purely and permanently pleasurable, find an ample scope for proper exertion.

5. The experienced have often declared, after wearying themselves in pursuing phantoms, that they have found a substantial happiness in the domestic circle. Hither they have returned from their wild excursions in the regions of dissipation, as the bird, after fluttering in the air, descends into her nest, to partake and increase its genial warmth with her young ones.

6. Such and so sweet are the comforts of home, when not perverted by the folly and weakness of man. Indifference, and a carelessness on the subject of pleasing those whom it is our best interest to please, often render it a scene of dulness and insipidity.

7. Happy would it be if the evil extended no farther. But the transition from the negative state of not being pleased, to positive ill humour is but too easy. Fretfulness and peevishness arise, as nettles vegetate, spontaneously, where no salutary plants are cultivated. One unkind expression infallibly generates many others. Trifles light as air are able to kindle the blaze of contention.

8. By frequent conflicts and unreserved familiarity, all that mutual respect which is necessary to preserve love, even in the most intimate connexions, is entirely lost; and the faint affection which remains, is too feeble to be felt amid the furious operation of the hateful passions.

9. Farewell peace and tranquillity, and cheerful converse, and all the boasted comforts of the family circle. The nest, which should preserve a perpetual warmth by the constancy of paternal and conjugal affection, is rendered cold and joyless. In the place of the soft down which should cover it, are substituted thorns and briars.

10. The waters of strife, to make use of the beautiful allusion of scripture, rush with impetuous violence, and ruffle and discolour that stream, which, in its natural and undisturbed current, devolves its waters all smooth and limpid.

11. But it is not necessary to expatiate on the misery of family dissension. I mean more particularly to suggest, that family dissension, beside all its own immediate evils, is the fruitful parent of moral misconduct.

12. When the several parts, which compose a family, find themselves uneasy in that home which is naturally the seat of mutual enjoyment, they are tempted from the strait road of common prudence, to pursue their happiness through a devious wild of passion and imagination.

13. The son, arrived at years of maturity, who is treated harshly at home, will seldom spend his evenings at the domestic fire-side. If he lives in the city, he will fly for refuge to company, and in the end, it is very probable he will form some unhappy connection, which cannot be continued without a plentiful supply of money.

14. Money, it is probable, cannot be procured. What then remains, but to pursue those methods which unprincipled ingenuity has invented, and which, sooner or later, lead to their proper punishments, pain, shame and death!

15. But though the consequences are not always such as the operation of human laws produce, yet they are always terrible, and destructive of happiness and virtue.

16. Misery is indeed the necessary result of all deviations from rectitude; but early debauchery, early disease, early profligacy of all kinds, are peculiarly fruitful of wretchedness, as they sow the seeds of misery in the spring of life,