What arrows pierce so deep as fin! What venom gives fuch pains within! Thou great Phyfician of the foul! Rebuke thy pangs, and make me whole. Oh! if I trust thy fov'reign skill, With deep fubmission to thy will, Sickness and death shall both agree To bring me, Lord, at laft, to thee. APOSTROPHE to LIBERTY. O LIBERTY! thou beft, thou common right, Heaven be their crown!-'twas all that men could do> Glorious attempt! which all the world commends, HOPE is the chief bleffing of man, and that hope only is rational, of which we are certain that it cannot deceive us. IT is juftly confidered as the greateft excellency of art, to imitate nature; but it requires judgment to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation. NO man, whofe appetites are his masters, can perform the duties of his nature with ftrictness and regularity. He that would be fuperior to external influences, must first become fuperior to his own paffions. ALL fkill ought to be exerted for univerfal good.— Every man has owed much to others, and ought to pay the kindness that he has received. IT has been obferved, in all ages, that the advantages of nature, or of fortune, have contributed very little to the promotion of real happiness; and that those whom the fplendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the fummits of human life, have not often given any juft occafion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower ftation. JUSTICE may be defined, that virtue which impels us to give to every perfon what is his due. In this extended fenfe of the word, it comprehends the practice of every virtue which reafon prefcribes, or fociety fhould expect. Our duty to our Maker, to each other, and to ourselves,. are fully answered, if we give them what we owe them.— Thus juftice, properly speaking, is the only virtue, and all the reft have their origin in it. TENDERNESS, without a capacity of relieving, only makes the heart that feels it, nearly as wretched as the object which fues for affiftance. EDUCATION fhould teach us to become useful, fober, difinterested, and laborious members of fociety; but does it not at present point out a different path? It teaches us to multiply our wants, by which means we become more eager to poffefs, in order to diffipate,- a greater charge to our felves, and more useless or obnoxious to fociety. The following STANZA was written by a Youth of Ten Years old on his BIRTH DAY. TIME irrecoverably flies; Our evenings come, our mornings rife : To the Author of the above, by his Father. And gives thee, perfect, to thy native skies! There youth, or age, no more begin, or end- Written in Dr. YOUNG'S NIGHT THOUGHTS. PERHAPS, as through thefe gloomy ifles he stray'd, Some heav'n-deputed, kind, informing fhade, Taught his rapt muse these sweet seraphic ftrains, Which lift the foul above terrestrial plains. When all the works of fancy fade away, Thofe tuneful trifles that enchant the gay, Thy verse shall live (which holy zeal inspires, Which glows fo brightly with religion's fires) Unhurt by time; no day its end fhall tell, But that laft day which thou haft fung fo well. THERE is no real felicity for man, but in reforming all his errors and vices, and entering upon a ftrict and conftant courfe of virtue. This only makes life comfortable, renders death ferene and peaceful, and secures eternal joy and bleffednefs hereafter. IF IF you defire to be wifer yet, think yourfelf not yet wife; and if you improve in felf-knowledge, defpife not the inftructions of another. He that inftructs him that thinks himfelf wife enough, hath a fool for his fcholar; he that thinks himself wife enough to inftruct himself, hath a fool· for his master. : VIRTUE is that perfect good which is the crown of a happy life, the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality it is an invincible greatnefs of mind, not to be elevated or dejected by good or ill fortune: it is fociable and gentle, free, fteady, and fearlefs, content within itself, full of inexhaustible delights, and it is valued for itself. LET us call to mind the poverty and meanness that attended the condition of our bleffed Saviour here on earth, and alienate our affections from the things of this world, fixing them upon the ineffable joys purchafed by him for us in another. He lived poor and low all his days; " Though "he was rich, yet for our fakes he became poor." So poor, that he was never owner of a houfe to dwell in, but lived all his days in the habitations of other men, or in the open air. REASON, or understanding, is the candle of the foul, which, if enlightened by the Holy Spirit, will guide you into the path that leads to glory, immortality, and eternal life. Endeavour to be a candle to your neighbours and acquaintance by your exemplary life and conduct in the world. "Let your light fo fhine before men, that they may fee your good works, and glorify your Father which is in "heaven." 66 BE not captivated with the meer appearance of felicity, which is but outfide fhew, like the men of gaiety and pleafure, who are enamoured with, and frequently deluded by, the empty and trifling amufements of a thoughtless age; but be you folicitous for a fhare in thofe momentous and never-fading realities of another and better world. CHEERFULNESS. CHEERFULNESS. FAIR as the dawning light! aufpicious gueft! Source of all comforts to the human breast! Depriv'd of thee, in fad despair we moan, And tedious roll the heavy moments on. Tho' beauteous objects all around us rife To charm the fancy, and delight the eyes; Tho' art's fair works, and nature's gifts confpire To please each fenfe, and fatiate each defire, 'Tis joyless all-'till thy enliv'ning ray Scatters the melancholy gloom away. Then opens to the foul a heav'nly scene, Gladnefs and peace, all sprightly, all ferene. Where dost thou deign, fay, in what bleft retreat, To choose thy manfion, and to fix thy feat? Thy facred prefence how fhall we explore, Can av'rice gain thee with her golden ftore? Can vain ambition with her boatted charms Tempt thee within her wide extended arms? No, with Content alone canft thou abide, Thy fifter ever smiling by thy fide. When boon companions, void of ev'ry care, Crown the full bowl, and the rich banquet fhare, And give a loose to pleasure-art thou there? Or when the eager fwains pursue the chafe With active limbs, and health in every face, Is it thy voice that wakening up the morn, Cheers the ftaunch hound, and winds the jolly horn? Or when th' affembled great and fair advance To celebrate the mafk, the play, the dance, Whilft beauty spreads its fweetest charms around, And airs extatic fwell their tuneful found, Art thou within the pompous circle found? Does not thy influence more fedately fhine? Can fuch tumultuous joys as these be thine? Surely, more mild, more constant in their course, Thy pleasures iffue from a nobler fource, From fweet difcretion ruling in the breast, From paffions temper'd, and from fins repreft, } From |