The acknowledgement of our transgressions must precede the forgivness of them.

Judicious abridgements often aid the studys of youth.

Examine how thy humor is enclin❜d,

And which the ruleing passion of thy mind.

He faulters at the question:

His fears, his words, his looks, declare him guilty.

Calicoe is a thin cloth made of cotton; sometimes stained with lively colors.

To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same as being the acters of it ourselvs.

The glasier's business was unknown to the antients.

The antecedant, in grammer, is the noun or pronoun to which the relative refers.

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BE not affraid of the wicked: they are under the controul of Providence.

may justly afright us.

Consciousness of guilt

Convey to others no inteligence which you would be ashamed to avow.

Many are weighed in the ballance, and found wanting.

How many disapointments have, in their consequences, saved a man from ruin!

A well-poised mind makes a chearful coun

tenance.

A certain housholder planted a vinyard, but the men imployed in it made ungratefull returns. Let us show dilligence in every laudible undertaking.

Cinamon is the fragrant bark of a low tree in the iland of Ceylon.

A ram will but with his head, though he be brought up tame, and never saw the action.

We percieve a piece of silver in a bason, when water is poured on it, though we could not discover it before.

Virtue imbalms the memory of the good.

The king of Great Brittain is a limitted monarch; and the Brittish nation a free people.

The phisician may dispence the medicin, but Providence alone can bless it.

In many persuits, we imbark with pleasure, and land sorrowfully.

Rocks, mountains, and caverns, are of indispensible use, both to the earth and to man.

The hive of a city, or kingdom, is in the best condition, when their is the least noize or buz in it.

The roughnesses found on our enterance into the paths of virtue and learning, grow smoother as we advance.

That which was once the most beautifull spot of Italy, coverred with pallaces, imbellished by princes, and cellebrated by poets, has now nothing to show

but ruins.

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Batterring rams were antiently used to beat down the walls of a city.

Jocky signifies a man who rides horses in a race; or who deals in horses.

The harmlesness of many animals, and the injoyment which they have of life, should plead for them against cruel useage.

We may

be very buzy, to no usefull purpose. We cannot plead in abatment of our guilt, that we are ignorent of our duty.

Genuine charaty, how liberal soever it may be, will never impoverish ourselves. If we sew spareingly, we shall reap acordingly.

However disagreable, we must resolutly perform our duty.

A fit of sickness is often a kind chastisment and disciplin, to moderate our affection for the things of this life.

It is a happyness to young persons, when they are preserved from the snares of the world, as in a garden inclosed.

Health and peace, the most valueable posessions, are obtained at small expence.

Incence signifies perfumes exhailed by fire, and made use of in religious ceremonies.

True happyness is an ennemy to pomp and

noize.

Few reflexions are more distresing, than those which we make on our own ingratitude.

There is an inseperable connection between piety and virtue.

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Many actions have a fair complection, which have not sprung from virtue.

Which way soever we turn ourselvs, we are incountered with sensable demonstrations of a Deity. If we forsake the ways of virtue, we cannot alledge any color of ignorance, or want of instruction.

SECTION 3.

THERE are more cultivaters of the earth, than of their own hearts.

Man is incompassed with dangers innumerable. War is attended with distresful and dessolating effects. It is confesedly the scorge of our angry passions.

The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof. The harvest truely is plenteous, but the laborers are few.

The greater our incitments to evil, the greater will be our victory and reward.

We should not incourage persons to do what they beleive to be wrong.

Virtue is placed between two extreams, which are both equally blameable.

We should continually have the gaol in our view, which would direct us in the race.

The goals were forced open, and the prisoners set free.

It cannot be said that we are charitible doners, when our gifts proceed from selfish motives.

Straight is the gate, and narrow the way, that lead to life eternal.

Integrity leads us strait forward, disdaining all doubleings, and crooked paths.

Licenciousness and crimes pave the way to ruin. Words are the countres of wise men, but the money of fools.

Recompence to no man evil for evil.

He was an excellent person; a mirrour of antient faith in early youth.

Meekness controuls our angry passions; candor, our severe judgements.

He is not only a descendent from pious ancesters,. but an inheriter too of their virtues.

A dispensatory is the place where medicines are dispensed: a dispensary is a book in which the composition of them is described.

Faithfulness and judgment are peculiarly requisit in testamentory executors.

To be faithfull among the faithless, argues great strength of principal.

Mountains appear to be like so many wens or unatural protuberancies on the face of the earth. In some places the sea incroaches upon the land; in others, the land upon the sea.

Philosophers agreed in despizing riches, as the incumberances of life.

Wars are regulated robberries and pyracies.

Fishes encrease more than beasts or birds, as ap pears from their numrous spaun.