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employed in virtue and beneficence, it is distinguished by tranquillity-it is consecrated by the tears of filial piety, of conjugal affection, and of friendship's solicitude. But when it is the last scene of a career of vice, it is imbittered by remorse, and darkened by reflections of a mispent, unprofitable, disgraceful existenceendearment seldom attends it, affection cannot ameliorate it-the retrospect of the past is black with guilt, the prospect of futurity shadowed with fear. Conscience is armed with terror, and the appalled victim of iniquity yields the tribute of nature in the horrors of convulsive agony.

The time is near, when the great and the rich must leave his land and his well-built house; and of all the trees of his orchards and plantations, nothing shall attend him to his grave, but oak for his coffin, and cypress for his funeral. The regular tenor, therefore, of a virtuous and pious life, spent in the faithful discharge of all the duties of our station, will prove the best preparation for old age, for death, and for immortality. Throughout all ranks and conditions, "one generation passeth, and another generation cometh;" and this great inn is by turns evacuated and replenished by troops of succeeding pilgrims. O vain and inconstant world! O fleeting and transient life! When will the sons of men learn to think of thee as they ought? when will they learn humanity from the afflictions of their brethren, or wisdom and moderation from the sense of their own fugitive state?

How swiftly pass our years!
How soon their night comes on!
A train of hopes and fears,
And human life is gone!

See the fair summer now is past!

The foliage late that clad the trees,

Stript by the equinoctial blast,

Falls like the dewdrops in the breeze!

Cold winter hastens on!

Fair nature feels his grasp;
Weeps o'er all her beauties gone,

And sighs their glory past!

So life, thy summer soon will end,
Thine autumn, too, will quick decay,
And winter come, when thou shalt bend
Within the tomb to mould away.

But summer will return,

In all her beauties dress'd!
Nature shall rejoice again,
And be by man caress'd!
But, oh! life's summer pass'd away,
Can never, never hope return!
Cold winter comes, with cheerless ray,
To beam upon its dreary urn!

Then may we daily seek

A mansion in the skies,
Where summers never cease,
And glory never dies!

There an eternal spring shall bloom.
With joys as vast as angels' pow'rs!
And thrice ten thousand harps in tune
Shall praise the love that made it ours.

THE END.

LONDON, PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H, FISHER,

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Canaries, on the breed of, 416
Capacity for happiness to be carefully im-
proved, 710

Cardan, his vindication of Nero, 394
Carnation, the, wonders discoverable by a
microscope in, 375

Carolan, the Irish bard, his talents, 408
Catherbeius, sultan of Egypt, quoted, 679
Castruccius Castrucanus, quoted, ib.
Character, a virtuous, the best security for
happiness, 504

Character, the difficulty of appreciating,
608

Charity and benevolence described and re-
commended, 760

Credulity and scepticism, equally to be
avoided, 461

Cymon and Iphigenia, the story of, 73
Cyrus and the Persian nobleman, anecdote
of, 608

D

Davenant, Sir Wm. his theatrical represen-
tations, 254

De

Roches and De Gournai, virgins,
quoted, 40

Death, a physical and moral necessity,
262

Death, on the preparation for, ib.
Death, St. Pierre's observations upon, 711
Death, concluding reflections on, 763

Charity and benevolence, Sir Thos. Browne, Death-bed, a school of wisdom, 602
on, 761

Chase, the, its pleasures, 276

Debauchee, his happiness analyzed, 512
Devotion, its pleasures, 485

Chesterfield, Lord, on the employment of Diligence, a powerful workman, 624

time, 215

Childhood, its pleasures the purest, 11
Children, circumstances attending the birth
of, 111

Children, their unsophisticated nature, 121
Children, necessity of giving them a good
education, 125

Children, excessive severity towards them
reprobated, 133

China, Emperor of, his singular custom, 283
Christianity, and monkish morality, essen-
tially opposite, 456

Christianity, an incentive to cheerfulness,
460

Cimarosa, his method of composing, 398
Cincinnatus, quoted, 283
Colour, the beauty of, 297

Comedies, modern, bad effects of, 93
Complaining, Montaigne on the habit of,
712

Complaining, Peter Pindar's lines on, 714
Compositions, unchaste, to be avoided, 331
Conjugal affection, instance of, 155

Connection, the social, a solace to the un-
fortunate, 697

Conscience, peace of, a great blessing, 511
Contentment, originates in the mind, 630
Cornelia, quoted, 141

Corynas, do. ib.

Cossacks, the effect of music on, 408
Country-house, Bergeral's description of a,
287

Country, the, its charms, 257
Country contributes to devotion, 262
Country, poetical tributes to the, 265
Country, animated view of the, by a Ger-
man divine, 281

Country a cure for melancholy, 286
Courtship, a virtuous, happiness of, 76
Creation, the uniformity and variety ob-
servable in, 361
Creation, perpetual circulations discernible
in, 363

Creative wisdom, the numberless marks
of, 660

Diotima and Aspasia, lecturers on philo-
sophy, ib.

Diseases, how few fatal, dispensary report,
636

Diseases, the effect of general laws, 643
Distinction only to be gained by superior
usefulness, 522

Divine goodness, its manifestations, 480
Dodat, M., on the medicinal powers of
music, 418

Dreams, Mr. Locke's and Dr. Hartley's
opinions on the origin of, 235
Dreams, poetical descriptions of, 235
Dreams, Owen Feltham's observations on,

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Finery, excessive, caution against, 68
Fire, its excellence as an element, 642
Food, considered as a provision of the
Creator, 641

Fool, the, is an ornament to the world, 305
Fool, the, is continually laughing, 306
Fontenelle, his unostentatious charity, 530
Fox, Charles James, his poetical tribute to a
rose, 376

Flowers, the pride and glory of the crea-
tion, 372

Franklin, Dr. his rules of conduct, 210
French revolution, female affection most
conspicuous in the, 35

Friends and associations on the judicious
choice of, 758

Friendship, truly so called, 179

Friendship, advice in the formation of, 180
Friendship, what is inimical to, 182
Friendship, Cicero, Montaigne, and Moir's
opinions respecting, 184
G

Gaiety, the balm of life, 723
Ganganelli, Pope, on the education of
females, 130

Garden, a, first planted by the Almighty, 289
Garden, opinions of different writers upon
a, 290

Garden, its pleasures open to every condi.
tion, 292

Garden, Abbe de Lille's description of a,
299

Garden, Spenser and Hughes's do., 300
Giraldus Cambrensis, quoted, 116
Globe, the, its situation adapted to human
convenience, G42

Gluck, the composer, his singular whim, 398
Gluttony, the mischief of, 197

God, his works fraught with beauty, 345
God, on the unworthy conceptions formed
of, 454

God is Love, 491

God, the little solemnity with which his
name is used, 741

God, irreverent mention of, accounted for
and reprehended, ib.

God, Sir Isaac Newton's remarks on the
name of, 742

Goffe, Alexander, the woman actor, 254
Goitre, a mark of beauty in Switzerland, 66
Golden rules for young tradesmen, 232
Gomesius, a Florentine gentleman, anecdote
of, 71

Good, that it preponderates over evil, 635
Good, the intention of Providence that it

should do so, proved, 636
Good temper, observations on, 631
Good schoolmaster, the, his character, by
Fuller, 142

Goodness, the surest foundation of conju-
gal love, 86

H

Happiness not dependent upon place, 588;
nor upon worldly advantages, 704

Happiness illustrated by an anecdote of
Cowley, 589

Happiness commented upon by Dr. John-
son, ib.

Happiness, Paley's celebrated treatise on
the meaning of the word, 610
Happiness, ease of situation necessary to,621
Happiness exists only by comparison, 622
Happiness consists in the absence of misery,
626

Happiness will flourish any where, 629
Happiness will increase as men become
enlightened, 644

Happiness not to be ensured by wealth,
crowds of dependents, fine dishes,

splendid clothes, nor sumptuous pa-
laces, 688

Happiness does not attend the dignified
voluptuary, 689

Happiness of the world, asserted and ex-
emplified, by Dr. Paley, 730
Haydn, anecdote of, 398

Hearing, pleasures derived from the sense
of, 194

Hector and Andromache, the parting of, 125
High birth, its vanity exposed, 678

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Hints on the sources of Happiness," ex-

tracts from, 18

Hipalia, of Alexandria, a philosopher, 40
History, morality, and poetry, Dr. Schom-
berg upon the reading of, 333
History, its use, 335

History eradicates illiberal prejudices, 337
Hogarth's line of beauty, 387

Holy Scripture, the test of truth, 476
Homer, his imagination, 394

Honour, who now-a-days are men of, 740
Honour, what is not the true spirit of, 753
Honour, what is, 754

Honour, true, not the prerogative of any
particular rank or station, 755

Hope, a continued inmate of the human
breast, 699

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