But, it gives me Pleasure to find there is one Ulyffes, who can "withstand all the Charms and Allurements he has had Recourse to." The Goddess now returning to the Temple, before a Multitude of Adorers, and the Temple-Bell founding to worship, my Friend too beginning to shake his Rattle, I started upon my Seat which awak'd me.

The PHILOSOPHY of MANNERS, with the Doctrine and Application thereof to Human Conduct.

THE Mischiefs daily arifing from the common Neglect of Decency, and good Manners, are a Proof of the Importance of fuch neceffary Conduct in our Behaviour, as may prevent those Evils.

A Statefman, Lawyer, Divine, Orator, or Difputant, of the greatest Talents, require a Degree of Demeanour and Addrefs to engage the. Attention and Byafs the Inclination of his Hearers, before he can perfuade them to a right Opinion; and therefore too much Care cannot be taken to acquire that Quality, which must set off all the Reft; and which ferve to correct thofe Solecisms in Behaviour which Men, either thro' Giddinefs, or a wrong Turn of Thought, are most likely to commit to their own Disadvantage.

Politeness is not lefs an ornamental Accomplishment than a Thing neceffary to procure Happiness, connected as closely with fmall Things as with great; which may be observed from the Crofs-Accidents met with relating to Trifles: For Difquiet is found a very great Evil, let it arise from what Cause it will.

In the Concerns of common Life, as well as among Persons of Rank and Fortune, it may be obferved, that Numbers are brought into bad Circumftances from small Neglects, more than from great Errors in material Affairs For Shillings and Pence, fo lightly thought of by many People, go to the making up of large Sums.

Our Duty to our Neighbour is not fufficient when we pay our Debts, and do him no Injury; we owe him farther Obligations of Civilities, Complacencies, and Endeavours to give him Pleasure, in order to preserve the true Relish of Life, in reciprocal Enjoyments; as also in his Affection and Esteem, procured by means of Politeness done him.

Honorius is a Perfon equally diftinguished for his Birth and Fortune. His natural good Senfe has been improved by his Education. His Wit is lively, and his Morals unfpotted, yet he has contracted a Notion, that it is beneath the Man of true Honour to fall below the Height of Truth in any Degree, upon any Occafion whatfoever. From this Principle, and the Habits fallen into, he speaks abruptly whatever he thinks, without any regard to the Company or Place where he is. He read a Lecture on Female Hypocrify before a married Couple, where the Lady was violently fufpected of it. Soon after he fell into a warm Declamation on Simony and Prieftcraft before two Dignitaries of the Church; who is therefore dreaded more than efteemed by his Acquaintance.

Prudentius, on the contrary, came into the World under great Difadvantages of Birth and Fortune; yet by his Behaviour he has acquired a handsome Eftate in the Country, on which he lives with greater Reputation than most of his Neighbours.

His Readiness to do obliging Offices gained him the Love and Esteem of his Inferiors; his Deference to those in high Station procured him their

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The fame Eafinefs of Difpofition ftill attends him in that Fortune to which it has raifed him; who is, this Day, the Delight of all who know him; from an Art he has of perfuading them that their Pleasures and their Interefts are equally dear to him with his own.

Who then, if it were in his Power, would refuse what Honorius poffeffes? But who would not wish that Poffeffion accompanied with Prudentius's Talents, and sweet Disposition ?

The Practice of Politeness does not require, that a Man fhould fall into a Careleffness, or Contempt of Science; fince a neceffary Stock of Knowledge will diftinguish every one from the Pedant, and adorn his other Qualities. Perfpicuity fhould run thro' all his easy Discourse; and Candour and Sincerity appear in all his Thoughts and Actions.

Religion, which is become the Jeft of Fools, fhould be always treated with the utmost Respect: For what can be a greater Offence, or more fhocking to good Senfe and Manners than to speak ludicrously, or with Contempt of" That Worship which Men, from a Sense of Duty, pay "to that Being, unto whom they owe their Existence; with all those "Bleffings and Benefits attending it ?”

All Party-Difputes and Politicks must be set aside, and Reflections on Men's Profeffions; and all Expreffions, or Behaviour whatsoever, that are any Ways liable to give Pain, fhould, with the utmost Caution, be avoided.

Invective, Ridicule, and Raillery, are very offenfive Weapons! and dangerous to be dealt with; the Playing with which, for Diverfion, being fimilar to jefting with the Point of a naked Sword, to infult or wound the Perfon it is turned againft. A false Ambition, Envy, and Ill-Nature often prompt the Poffeffor to employ these Weapons, by making continual War against the Honour and Reputation of the more worthy. A fudden Vehemence in Difcourfe is not a little Shocking to Others, at the fame Time it exhaufts not a little the Perfon, who puts it in Practice; contrary to the Rules of good Breeding. This Defect arifes from Impatience at the Difference of Opinion, while we are equally guilty in cherishing the fame Tenacity in ourselves.

If Submiffion to others be a Thing difagreeable, why fhould we ex pect it? Truth can only juftify Tenacity of Opinion; and if we calmly lay down what is reasonable, it will hardly fail of convincing those to whom we speak. Heat produces Heat; and the Clashing of Opinions feldom fails to strike out Fire of Diffention. Paffion excites Oppofition, and that very Oppofition to a Man of tolerable Sense should be the ftrongeft Reproof for his Inadvertency.

As this Foible is more especially incident to the Fair Sex, it may not be amifs to remind them, likewife, that Paffion is as great an Enemy to Beauty, as it is to Truth; it difcomposes the sweetest Features, difcolours the finest Complection, and gives the Air of a Fury to the Face of an Angel. Whereas, for the Ladies to affect what they defire, what can be denied Beauty, speaking with an Air of Satisfaction? Complacence does all that Vebemence would extort; as it is Anger alone can abate the Influence of their Charms! Redundancy in Converfation is a Fault, rather from Careleffness than Design; and is the more dangerous the lefs it is confidered.

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A Perfon of a loquacious Difpofition may escape open Cenfure from the Refpect due to his Quality, or from an Apprehenfion in those with whom he converses, that a Check would but increase the Evil, and, like curbing a hard-mouth'd Horse, serve only to make him run a Head the fafter; from whence the Perfon in Fault becomes often rivetted to his Error, by mistaking a filent Contempt! for a profound Attention.

Converfation fhould be looked upon as Sort of Bank, in which all, who compose it, fhould have their respective and proper Shares. The Man who attempts to engross it trefpaffes upon the Rights of his Companions in Partnership, and whether they think fit to tell him fo or no, he will not of Confequence be regarded as a fair Dealer,

Converfation differs from other Co-partnership in one very material Point, which is this; that it is worse taken if a Man pays in more than his Proportion, than if he had not contributed his full Quota; provided he be not too far deficient.

Some of the Fair Sex, when paft the Noon of Life, or in their Wane of their Power, are apt to disoblige their Hearers with Topics of Detraction, by which they reduce the Light of those Stars to gild the Hemifphere only, where they once fhone with sparkling and refplendent Luftre !

Some Men are guilty of Egotifm, or Self Panegyrick, to the great leffening of themfelves, and Disturbance of others; and is a Weakness, the bare mention whereof fhews it to be an improper Topic to entertain Company; yet there are Men perpetually introducing and recommending themfelves; who appear amazed at the Coolness of their Auditors, by forgetting that there is scarce a Perfon in the Room, who has not as good an Opinion of himself, at leaft, as of any Body else.

Difquifitions of this Kind, into human Nature, properly belong to Sages in polite Philofophy; the First Principle whereof is not to offend against fuch Difpofitions of Mind, as are almoft infeparable from our Species; to find out and methodize which, require no fmall Pains and Application. Reflections on thefe Sort of Subjects will open a Senfe of Novelty, which is attended with a moft powerful Recommendation.

The Character of a Marplot, in the Affembly of Impertinents, should be carefully avoided.

Inftances might be produced of Major Ramble engroffing a tedious Converfation on his Travels, for an Hour, in Company with Gentlemen that he knew had feen all and more than he defcribed; wherein a Defire of displaying his own Parts buried every other Circumftance in Oblivion. When Doctor Hectic ftarted a Subject on Medicinal Bath Waters, and tried the Company's Patience for a confiderable Time, without ftaying for their Approbation : During which Time Mr. Mathematics fat filent. But, the most unaccountable of all, Mr. Papillo, after all these Impertinencies, read the Company a Lecture upon a Medallion, to make them amends for the late queer Converfation he had obferved; when every one lofing all Patience, took up their Hats and went away without faying a Word.

Thus far the Rocks are defcribed on which is fplit the Bark of Good Manners, and all thofe Paffengers of Life fet adrift who would arrive at the Character of being agreeable •

Having conducted you to the Door of the World's Great School, you must enter and practice the Precepts here laid down, (avoiding all Pofitiveness and Affectation) and make what farther Observations your Expe

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rience can difcover. Your best Way to improve will be from Conversation with the FAIR SEX; who, in general, poffefs all the Accomplishments of Politeness in an eminent Degree, and are qualified to teach the Utile & Dulci; by whose Means, alone, you may arrive at the Summit of Mount Pleasant. PERIGRINATOR.

The LADY'S CURIOSITY.

On a beautiful and virtuous YOUNG LADY.
By Marcellus.

CAN you count the fparkling Lights
That deck the Sky and chear the Nights?
Or the Leaves that ftrew the Vales,
When the Groves are ftript by Gales?
Or tranfparent Pearls, at Morn,
That hang in Drops upon the Thorn ?
Or the Shells on India's Strand,
Where the Ocean laves the Land?
Pomona's Fruits, or Flora's Flow'rs,
Or odorous Sweets in fragrant Bowers;
So many Charms does SOPHIA * own,
Unnumber'd ftill, and still unknown.

*Mifs Sophia Western of Hull, in Yorkshire.
To the GOVERNORS of the Age.
WHEN will thofe mending others ftrive to mend,
Be Friends to Virtue for no private End?
Difinterested, show'r Bleffings on Mankind,
Reform by Morals, and with Friendship bind?
Relieve the Worthy with a helping Hand,
And deal Rewards of Virtue thro' the Land?
Quit then luxurious Plenty and Disease,
Your Blifs to others will your own encrease.
Your Daughters let be chofe for Merit moft,
Virtue, not Money, be the reigning Toaft.

UPNORENSIS.

EPIGRAM, On an ABLE DOCTOR cutting down Trees in the Grove of St. John's College Oxford, when Burfar there.

INDULGENT Nature on each Kind bestows

A fecret Infint to avert its Foes;

The Goofe, a filly Bird, ftill fhuns the Fox,

Hares run from Hounds, and Seamen steer from Rocks:

Fs the Gws, dangerous, foresees,

And therefore bears Antipathy to Trees.

OXONIENSIS.

The ANAGRAM in laft Pall. p. 41. anfwered by Mr. F. Joce.

THE Devil, for Rebellion, was headlong fent to Hell,

And may those meet no better Fate who wilfully rebell.
EPITAPH, On the late celebrated ASTRONOMER
Mr. Jofeph Smith, of Fleet, deceafed. By a Goffard.
AS COMETS devious thro' their Orbits ftray,
Their Track unfeen, unknown their dreary Way,
Yct round the Sun in various order dance,
To fhew their Being is no Work of Chance:

So

So Smith accentric on his arduous Road,

Steers round, and round, the Centre of his GoD.

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