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nd the object of general admiration. Of religion appearance, for she not only goes to church, ds there frequently and with pleasure. In truth, ept a well-acted play or interesting novel, affords delight, as a discourse, which is elegantly comeloquently delivered, and which sparkles with aphors and original similes.

particular, charmed with sweet-toned, pathetic ich fill her eyes with tears, and her bosom with 3; but for those plain discourses, which probe eart, which point out the danger of prosperity, e the necessity of self-denial and humility, she tle relish. Humility, in particular, that grace essential in the character of a true Christian, is which she is a stranger. She entertains an exalther own dignity, and esteems nothing in this portant, so sublime, so celestial, as a beautiful and d young woman. But though she is not humhas somewhat of the appearance of humility; for st in her thoughts, and delicate in her manners. with her is a matter of taste, but not of action. judicious observations on the sermons which she on the prayers, as far as they are the subjects of but she neither prays with her heart, nor does she h meekness into her heart the engrafted word. ss she has not yet made a profession; for this is a hich belongs to the old and the wretched, and not g and the cheerful. Her behavior in her family ety, however, may in general be said to be without As she receives the homage of every one who her, she is careful to return respect; and there is her of that condescension, which is consistent degree of self-complacence.

lor she possesses, if not a liberal, yet not an unon. She never calumniates any one; and if she makes herself merry with the foibles of her abIs, her wit is without malice, and is designed only to mirth of the present company. In effect she loves, thinks that she loves, her friends with uncommon d her private letters to them are replete with the

warmest expressions of affection, with the most generous and disinterested sentiments.

For charity she entertains a fond regard. Charity, that divine nymph, which descends from the skies, with an eye beaming with benignity, a cheek glowing with compassion, a foot light as a zephyr silently stepping near the couch of anguish, and a soft hand gently opened for the solace of the daughters of wo; charity, which she cannot figuratively describe, without literally describing the loveliness of her own face, and the graces of her own person; charity is so charming a form, that no mind, she thinks, can contemplate her without delightful emotions. Her refined taste in benevolence, and the books which she has read, teach her highly to value this godlike virtue; and she impatiently longs for an opportunity of displaying her liberality in such a magnificent style, as to overwhelm with gratitude the object of her bounty.

But the sufferer, whom she has imaged in her mind, is as elegant as herself; and though poor, yet without any of the mean concomitants of poverty. For the real poor, who daily pass before her eyes, who are gross and vulgar, rude in their speech, base in their sentiments, and squalid in their garments, she has little sympathy. Farthings would comfort them, but she gives them nothing; for her ambition is to pour handfuls of guineas into the lap of poor Maria, a lovely and unfortunate girl, who would thank her in pathetic and polished language. Thus she passes her youth, praising and affecting benevolence, but without the actual performance of good works; and, should not her heart in season be touched with piety and Christian charity, when she enters the conjugal state, she sinks into the cold and selfish matron.

LESSON LXI.

Fancy and Philosophy contrasted.-BEATTIE.

I CANNOT blame thy choice, the sage replied,
For soft and smooth are fancy's flowery ways;
And yet, even there, if left without a guide,
The young adventurer unsafely plays.

zzled long by fiction's gaudy rays,
truth no light nor beauty find:

o, my child, would trust the meteor blaze,
must fail, and leave the wanderer blind,
nd helpless far, than if it ne'er had shined?

rvates, while it soothes the heart,
ile it dazzles, wounds the mental sight:
ch heightening charm it can impart,
ps the hour of wo in tenfold night:
en, where no real ills affright,
ry fiends, an endless train,

vith equal or superior might,

gh the throbbing heart, and dizzy brain,

ng nerves, shoot stings of more than mortal pain.

alas! the real ills of life

the full vigor of a mind prepared,—
for patient, long, laborious strife,
de experience, and truth its guard.
e on earth as other men have fared:
y successful? Let not us despair.
isappointment oft their sole reward?
their tale instruct, if it declare

have borne the load ourselves are doomed to bear.

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7, let other themes our care engage;

! with modest, yet majestic grace, imagination's lawless rage,

rom within the cherished heart to brace, Sophy appears. The gloomy race,

lence and moping fancy bred

discontent, solicitude-give place,

pe and courage brighten in their stead,
the kindling soul her vital beams are shed.

aken from long lethargy to life

seeds of happiness and powers of thought: arring appetites forego their strife,

ife by ignorance to madness wrought.

Pleasure by savage man is dearly bought With fell revenge, lust that defies control,

With gluttony and death. The mind untaught Is a dark waste, where fiends and tempests howl; As Phoebus to the world, is science to the soul.

And reason, now, through number, time and space,
Darts the keen lustre of her serious eye,

And learns, from facts compared, the laws to trace,
Whose long progression leads to Deity.

Can mortal strength presume to soar so high?
Can mortal sight, so oft bedimmed with tears,
Such glory bear?-for, lo! the shadows fly
From nature's face; confusion disappears,
And order charms the eye, and harmony the ears.

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Many a long-lingering year, in lonely isle,

Stunned with the eternal turbulence of waves, Lo! with dim eyes, that never learned to smile, And trembling hands, the famished native craves Of Heaven his wretched fare: shivering in caves. Or scorched on rocks, he pines from day to day ; But science gives the word; and, lo! he braves The surge and tempest, lighted by her ray, And to a happier land wafts merrily away.

And even where nature loads the teeming plain
With the full pomp of vegetable store,

Her bounty, unimproved, is deadly bane:

Dark woods and rankling wilds, from shore to shore
Stretch their enormous gloom; which, to explore,

Even fancy trembles in her sprightliest mood;

For there each eyeball gleams with lust of gore, Nestles each murderous and each monstrous brood; Plague lurks in every shade, and steams from every floou.

'Twas from philosophy man learned to tame
The soil, by plenty to intemperance fed.
Lo! from the echoing axe and thundering flame,
Poison, and plague, and yelling rage are fled.

ters, bursting from their slimy bed, _th and melody to every vale:

m the breezy main and mountain's head, Flora, to the sunny dale,

glowing charms, invite the fluttering gale.

è necessities, on every hand,

, our strength, our fortitude, require! testine what a numerous band

this little throb of life conspire! ence can elude their fatal ire

nd turn aside death's levelled dart,

the sharp pang, allay the fever's fire,

e the nerves once more, and cheer the heart, ew soft nights and balmy days impart.

co regulate man's moral frame
exerts her all-composing sway.
hy breast with fear, or pants for fame,
es, to indolence and spleen a prey,
rice, a fiend more fierce than they?
he shades of Academus' grove,

cares molest not; discord melts away

-ny, and the pure passions prove

the words of truth, breathed from the lips of love.

nnot art and industry perform,

science plans the progress of their toil?
ile at penury, disease and storm,
ceans from their mighty mounds recoil.
tyrants scourge, or demagogues embroil
or when the rabble's headlong rage
transforms to anarchy and spoil,
-sed in man, the philosophic sage
with lenient hand, their phrensy to assuage.

alone, whose comprehensive mind, situation, temper, soil and clime

1, a nation's various powers can bind, various orders, in one form sublime

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