True happyness is an ennemy to pomp and noize. Few reflexions are more distresing, than those which we make on our own ingratitude. There is an inseperable connection between piety and virtue. Many actions have a fair complection, which have not sprung from virtue. Which way soever we turn ourselvs, we are incountered with sensable demonstrations of a Deity. If we forsake the ways of virtue, we cannot alledge any color of ignorance, or want of instruction. SECTION 3. See the KEY, Part 2. Chap. 2. Section 3. THERE are more cultivaters of the earth, than of their own hearts. Man is incompassed with dangers innumerable. War is attended with distresful and dessolating effects. It is confesedly the scorge of our angry passions. The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. The harvest truely is plenteous, but the laborers are few. The greater our incitments to evil, the greater will be our victory and reward. We should not incourage persons to do what they believe to be wrong. Virtue is placed between two extreams, which are both equally blameable. We should continually have the gaol in our view, which would direct us in the race. The goals were forced open, and the prisoners set free. It cannot be said that we are charitable doners, when our gifts proceed from selfish motives. Straight is the gate, and narrow the way, that lead to life eternal. Integrity leads us strait forward, disdaining all doubleings and crooked paths, Licenciousness and crimes pave the way to ruin. Words are the countres of wise men, but the money of fools. Recompence to no man evil for evil. He was an excellent person; a mirrour of antient faith in early youth. Meekness controuls our angry passions; candor, our se vere judgements. He is not only a descendent from pious ancesters, but an inheriter too of their virtues. A dispensatory is the place where medicines are dispensed; a dispensary is a book in which the composition of them is described. Faithfullness and judgment are peculiarly requisit in testamentory executors. To be faithfull among the faithless, argues great strength of principal. Mountains appear to be like so many wens or unatural protuberancies on the face of the earth. In some places the sea incroaches upon the land; in others, the land upon the sea. Philosophers agreed in despizing riches, as the incumberances of life. Wars are regulated robberries and pyracies. Fishes encrease more than beasts or birds, as appears from their numrous spaun. 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 buziness 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 See the KEY Part 2. Chap 2. 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. It is hard to say what diseases are curcable: they are all under the guidence of Heaven. Instructors should not only be skilfull 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, Their great originel proclame. 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 humours. The beautiful and accomplished, are too apt to study behaivour rather than virtue. The peazant's cabbin contains as much content as the sove rein'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: Act well your part; there, all the honor lies. 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. See the KEY, Part 2. Chap. 2. 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. Visit the sick, feed the hungry, cloath the naked. His smiles and tears are too artifitial to be relied on. 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 eligible 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, were 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. 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. Honest endeavors, if preserved in, will finally be succesful. He who dies for religion, is a martyr; he who suffers for it, is a confessour. In the paroxism of passion, we sometimes give occasion for a life of repentence. The mist which invelopes many studies, is dissipated when we approach them. The voice is sometimes obstructed by a hoarsness, or by viscuous phlegm. The desart shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. The fruit and sweetmeats set on table after the meat, are called the desert. We traversed the flowry fields, till the falling dews admon. ished us to return. SECTION 6. See the Key, Part 2. Chap. 2. Section 6, THERE is frequently a worm at the root of our most florishing condition. The stalk of ivey is tough, and not fragil. The roof is vaulted, and distills fresh water from every part of it. |