1746; I have alfo fuperintended the Edition of the annual Prize-Pieces. On the first Propofal for the Founda tion of a Charity School in 1746, I collected and arranged the Reafons for it, in a Quarto Half-fheet, intitled, Projet d'un Etabliffement en Faveur des Pauvres, which, in the Beginning of 1747, was followed by a Memoire pour l'Etabliffement d'une Ecole de Charité. Accordingly the School was founded, and I know not any Work which gave me a more lively Pleafure than the Sermon which I preached at its Dedication, on the 12th of September, 1747; fince which Time, beginning at the Year 1748, I have annually published a Relation de l'Ecole de Charité. I now, unexpectedly, found myself engaged in a kind of Controverfy with the late Cardinal Querini, equally refpectable for his Morals and Literature. As he had published a Letter to me, I thought myself indifpenfably obliged to anfwer it: There have been likewife fome other Pieces relating to this Difpute, all which I have collected in the Vindicia Reformatorum, printed 1750, in Octavo. I fhall not fwell this Account with any farther Enumeration of my Works, which are not unknown in most Parts of Europe where Literature flourishes. The Premiffes are are fufficient to fhelter me from the Charge of Supineness; but, amidst the Duties of my honourable Poft, an extensive Correspondence, and other Affairs, with which a pretty numerous Acquaintance is neceffarily clogged; far am I from wearying myself with Labour, I rather allow myself a competent Relaxation in the innocent Compla cencies of Life; conftantly endeavouring to finish my Career with that Joy of Heart, which arifes from an intire Confidence in the adorable Perfections of the fupreme Difpenfer of Events, in whofe Prefence is Fulness of Joy, and at whofe Right-hand are Pleafures for evermore. On the Analogy between the Nourishment of the Soul and that of the Body 147 184 231 255 272 ESSAYS ESSAY ON SLE E P. O UR Life is by Nature divided into two Portions, nearly equal, Vigilancy and Sleep. The Occupations of the Day lead us to the Repose of the Night, and Repose inables us to go through the Functions of a new Day; and, in the Generality of Mankind, this regular Alternation of Action and Reft continues till we fall into a final Sleep, yet not without the Hopes of awakning to a Vigilancy which fhall know neither End nor Interruption. That Part of Life which paffes in an apparent State of Death, is, I confefs, by no Means fo interefting as that which is filled with the feveral Tranfactions and Events of our Life; which fees the Birth and Difclosure of our Projects, the Conduct, Succefs, or Disappointment of our Undertakings; and which is the perpetual Scene of |