11. There cannot be a more glorious object in creation, than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he may render himself most acceptable to his Creator, by doing most good to his creatures.

12. A man fhould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong; which is but faying, in other words, that he is wifer to-day than he was yesterday.

13. Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome digging for deep, pure waters; but when once you come to the fpring, they rise ap and meet you.

14. The most unhappy effect of fashionable politeness is, that it teaches us the art of difpenfing with virtues which it imitates. Let us be educated to cherish the principles of benevolence and humanity, and we shall have politeness enough, or fhall stand in no need of it.

15. If we fhould not have that which is accompanied by the graces, we fhould have that which befpeaks the honeft man, and the good citizen. We should stand in no need of having recourfe to the falfehood of appearances.

16. Man is the only being endowed with the power of laughter, and perhaps he is the only one who deferves to be laughed at.

17. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfic, and fecure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists, and the attendance of flatterers and fpies.

18. Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be fo much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others, too often, are apt to build upon it.

19. There are no principles but thofe of religion, to be depended on in cases of real distress; and these are able to encounter the worst emergencies, and to bear us up under all the changes and chances to which our lives are subject. 20. Riches without charity are worth nothing. They are a bleffing only to him who makes them a bleffing to others. 21. The tongue of a viper is lefs hurtful than that of a flanderer and the gilded fcales of a rattlefnake, less dreadful than the purfe of the oppreffor.

22. As benevolence is the most fociable of all the virtues, fo it is of the largest extent; for there is not any man, either fo great or fo little, but he is yet capable of giving and of receiving benefits.

23. When thou doft good, do it because it is good; not because men esteem it fo. When thou avoidest evil, flee from it because it is evil; not because men speak against it. Be honeft for the love of honefty, and thou fhalt be uniformly fo. He, who doth it without principle, is wavering.

24. With rather to be reproved by the wife, than to be applauded by him who hath no understanding. When they tell thee of a fault, they fuppofe thou canft improve; the other, when he praiseth thee, thinketh thee like unto himself.

25. Set not thy judgment above that of all the earth; neither condemn as falfehood, what agreeth not with thine own' apprehenfion. Who gave thee the power of determining for others? or who took from the world the right of choice?

26. How many things have been rejected, which now are received as truth; how many, now received as truths, will in their turn be despised? Of what then can man be certain ?

27. An immoderate defire of riches is a poifon lodged in the foul. It contaminates and deftroys every thing which was good in it. It is no fooner rooted there, than all virtue, all honefty, all natural affection, fly before the face of it.

28. Drunkenness is but voluntary madnefs; it emboldens men to do all forts of mifchiefs; it both irritates wickednefs and discovers it; it does not merely make men vicious, but it shows them to be fo.

29. Every man fhould mind his own business; for he, who torments himself with other people's good or ill fortune, will never be at reft.

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30. To fet about acquiring the habit of meditation and study late in life, is like getting into a go-cart with a beard, and learning to walk when we have lost the use of our legs. In general, the foundation of a happy old age must be laid in youth; and he, who has not cultivated his reafon young, will be utterly unable to improve it when old. 31. Endeavour

31. Endeavour to be firft in your profeffion, and let no one go before you in doing well. Nevertheless, do not envy the merits of another; but improve your own talents.

32. Never reveal your fecrets to any, except it be as much their intereft to keep them, as it is yours they should be kept. Entruft only thyfelf, and thou canst not be betrayed.

33. Glory, like a fhadow, flieth him who purfueth it; but it followeth at the heels of him who would fly from it. If thou court it without merit, thou fhalt never attain unto it; if thou deserve it, though thou hide thyfelf, it will never forfake thee.

34. Purfue that which is honourable, do that which is right; and the applause of thine own confcience will be more joy to thee, than the fhouts of millions, who know not that thou deservest them.

35. Love labor. If you do not want it for food, you may for phyfic. The idle man is more perplexed to know what to do, than the induftrious in doing what he ought. There are few who know how to be idle and innocent. By doing nothing, we learn to do ill.

36. Honour thy father with thy whole heart, and forget not the forrows of thy mother. How canft thou recompense them the things which they have done for thee?

37. It is a mark of a depraved mind, to fneer at decrepit old age, or to ridicule any one who is deformed in his perfon or lacketh understanding. Who maketh one to differ from another?

38. The merciful man is merciful to his beast: and he, who takes pleasure in tormenting any of God's creatures, although ever fo inferior, ought to be banished from human fociety, and ranked among the brutes.

39. Admonish thy friend; it may be he hath not done it; and if he hath, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend; it may be he hath not said it ; or if he hath, that he fpeak it not again. Admonifh a friend; for many times it is a flander; and believe not every tale.

40. Be not forward in leading the converfation. This belongs to the oldeft perfons in company. Difplay your learning only on particular occafions. Never oppofe the pinion of another, but with great modelty.

41. On all occafions, avoid fpeaking of yourself, if poffi ble. Nothing that we can fay ourselves will varnish our defects, or add luftre to our virtues; on the contrary, it will often make the former more visible, and the latter obfcure.

42. Without a friend, the world is but a wilderness. A man may have a thousand intimate acquaintances, and not a friend among them all. If you have one friend, think yourself happy.

43. There is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of the mind; and that is, by fecuring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difposes of events, and governs futurity.

A HINT TO PARENTS.

IT is to be wifhed that parents would confider

what a variety of circumstances tend to render the evil reports of their children, respecting their teachers, false and exaggerated.

2, They judge haftily, partially, imperfectly, and improperly, from the natural defects and weakness of their age. They, likewife, too often intentionally mifreprefent things. They hate those who reftrain them; they feel refentment for correction; they love change; they love idleness, and the indulgencies of their home.

3. Like all human creatures, they are apt not to know when they are well, and to complain. Let parents then confider these things impartially, and be cautious of afperfing the character, and difturbing the happiness of those who may probably deserve thanks rather than ill ufage; whofe office is at beft full of care and anxiety; and when it is interrupted by the injudicious interference or complaints of the parents, becomes intolerably burdenfome.

4. If a father fufpect his confidence to have been mifplaced, it is beft to withdraw it immediately, without altercation and without reproaches. It would alfo be an excellent method of confulting their own peace, and the welfare of their other scholars, if mafters made a rule to exclude from their schools the children of thofe parents who are unjustly difcontented.

5. I have often heard old and experienced inftructors declare, that the whole business of managing a large school, and training the pupils to learning and virtue, was nothing in comparison with the trouble which was given by whimsical, ignorant, and discontented parents.

ON THE DUTY OF-Boys.

QUINTILIAN fays, that he has included al

moft all the duty of scholars in this one piece of advice which he gives them; to love thofe who teach them, as they love the fciences they learn of them; and to look upon them as fathers, from whom they derive not the life of the body, but that inftruction which is in a manner the life of the foul.

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Indeed this fentiment of affection and respect fuffices to make them apt to learn during the time of their studies, and full of gratitude all the rest of their lives. It seems to me to include a great part of what is to be expected from them.

3. Docility, which confifts in fubmitting to directions, in readily receiving the inftructions of their mafter, and reducing them to practice, is properly the virtue of scholars, as that of mafters is to teach well.

4. The one can do nothing without the other. As it is not fufficient for a laborer to fow the feed, unless the earth, after having opened its bofom to receive it, in a manner warms and moistens it; fo likewife the whole fruit of inftruction depends upon a good correfpondence between the mafter and the scholars.

5. Gratitude for thofe who have labored in our education, is the character of an honest nian, and the mark of good heart. Who is there among us, fays Cicero, who has been inftructed with any care, and is not highly delighted with the fight, or even the bare remembrance of his preceptors, and the place where he was taught and brought up?

6. Seneca exhorts young men to preserve always a great refpect for their teachers, to whofe care they are indebted for the amendment of their faults, and for having imbibed fentiments of honor and probity.

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