he married not from honeft principles; a rake defpifes matrimony: if still a rake, what hold has she of him ?—a laudable paffion he cannot have; he has no delicacy; his love deserves a viler name, and if so, it will be ftrange, if in his eyes, a common woman does not excel a modeft wife. I knew, faid Lord L. a woman of character, and reckoned not to want fenfe, who married at twenty, a man of fixty, in hopes of burying him foon; but who lived with her upwards of twenty years; and then dying, fhe is now in treaty with a young rake of twenty-two. She is rich, and, poor woman, hopes to be happy. Retribution will frequently take its course. The lady, keeping in view one fteady purpose, which was, that she would marry a young man whenever death removed the old one, forgot, when the loft her husband, that she had been growing older for the last twenty years; and will now very probably be the de-. spised mate to the young hufband, that her late hufband was to her. Thirty years hence, the now young man will fall into the error of his predeceffor, if he outlive the wife he is going to take, and be punished the fame way. These are what may be called punishments in kind. The violators of the focial duties are frequently punished by the fuccefs of their own wishes. ON FEMALE ATTRACTIONS. Flavella has a multitude of charms. She is fenfible affable, modeft and good-humoured. She is tall with out being aukward, and as strait as an arrow. Sher has a clear complexion, lively eyes, a pretty mouth, and white even teeth; and will anfwer the defcription which any rhyming lover can give of the mistress of his affections, after having ranfacked heaven and earth for fimilies; and yet I cannot admire her. She wants, in my opinion, that nameless fomething, or Je ne fai quoi, which is far more attractive than beauty. It is, in fhort, a peculiar manner of faying the most infignificant things, and doing the most trifling actions which captivates us, and takes our hearts by furprise. Though I am a ftrenuous advocate for a modeft, decent and an unaffected deportment in the fair fex, I would not, however, have a fine woman altogether infenfible of her perfonal charms, for fhe would then be as infipid as Flavella. I would only have her confcious enough of them to behave with modest freedom, and to converse with fluency and spirit. When a woman ftalks majestically into a room, with the haughty airs of a first rate beauty, and expects every one who fees her. to admire her, my indignation rifes, and I get away as faft as I can, in order to enjoy the conversation of an eafy, good humoured creature, who is neither beautiful, nor conceited enough to be troublesome, and who is as willing to give pleasure, as defirous to receive it. TENDERNESS TO MOTHERS. Mark! that parent hen, faid a father to his beloved daughter. With what anxious care does fhe call to~ gether gether her little offspring, and cover them with her expanded wings. The kite is hovering into the air, ánd, disappointed of his prey, by the care the hen takes of her brood, may, perhaps, dart upon the hen herself, and bear her off in his talons. Does not this fight fuggeft to you the tenderness and affection of your mother? Her watchful care protected you in the helpless period of your infancy, when the nourished you with her milk, taught your limbs to move, and your tongue to lifp its unform'd accents. In childhood, fhe has mourned over your little griefs, has rejoiced in your innocent delights, has adminif tered to you the healing balm in fickness, and has inftilled into your mind the love of truth, of virtue, and of wisdom. Oh! cherish every fentiment of respect to fuch a mother: the merits your warmest gratitude, efteem and veneration. PERCIVAL SISTERLY UNITY AND LOVE. Obferve those two hounds that are coupled together, faid Euphronius to Lucy and Emilia, who were looking through the window. How they torment each other by a disagreement in their purfuits! One is for moving flowly, and the other vainly urges forward. The larger dog now fees fome object that tempts him. on this fide, and fee how he drags his companion along, who who is ufing all his efforts to purfuè a different rouf. Thus they will continue all day at variance, pulling each other in oppofite directions, when they might, by kind and mutual compliances, pafs on eafily, merrily and happily. Lucy and Emilia concurred in cenfuring the folly and ill-nature of these dogs; and Euphronius expreffed a tender wish that he might never fee any thing fimilar in either of their behaviour to each other. Nature has linked you together, by the near equality of age; by your relation to the most indulgent of Parents, by the endearing ties of fifterhood, and by all thofe generous fympathies which have been foftered in your bofoms from your earliest infancy. Let these filken cords of mutual love continue to unite you in the fame purfuits, Suffer no allurements to draw you different ways, no contradictory paffions to diftract your friendships, nor any selfish views, or fordid jealoufies to render those bonds uneafy and oppreffive, which are now your ornament, your strength, and higheft happiness. PERCIVAL. CHARACTER OF TWO SISTERS. Flirtilla is a gay, lively, giddy girl; fhe is what the world calls handfome; fhe dances and fings admirably, has fomething to fay upon every fashion, perfon, play, opera, masquerade, or public exhibition, and has an eafy eafy flow of words, thet pafs upon the multitude for wit. In short, the whole end of her existence feems to be centered in a love of company and the fashion. No wonder it is she is noticed only by the lefs worthy part of the world. Amelia, the lovely Amelia, makes home her greatest happiness. Nature has not been fo lavish of her charms, as to her fifter, but fhe has a foft pleafing countenance, that plainly indicates the goodness of her heart within. Her perfon is not ftriking at first, but as it becomes familiar to the beholder, is more fo than that of her fifter. For her modest deportment, and her fweet difpofition, will daily gain ground on any perfon who has the happiness of converfing with her. She reads much, and digests what she reads. Her ferenity of mind is not to be difturbed by the disappointment of a party of pleasure, nor her spirit agitated by the shape of a cap, or the colour of a ribbon. She speaks but little when in company, but when she does, every one is hush, and attends to her as an oracle, and fhe has one true friend with whom the paffes her days in tranquility. The reader may easily judge which of these two fifters is the most amiable. FAMILY LOVE AND HARMONY. I will amufe you with a little experiment, faid Sophron one evening to Lucy, Emilia, and Jacobus, and, rifing from the table, he took the candles and held about |