484 Golden Rules for Honest Men. [J"ly 1» 



love of military glory, excited to gratify anil truth ; for iiiitauglit man is the pa- 



tlie bad passions of weak princes and ticnt of the circumstances by which he 



wicked ministers, — as the ambition after is surrounded, and the mere creature of 



titles, which mean no more than the imitation, — a mahomedan Turk, if born 



syllables of which they consist, — and as in Turkey ; a Siberian polytheist, if born 



the zeal of self-devotion in any cause of in Siberia; or a protestant or popish 



the hour, the object and use of which Christian, if born in Holland or Spain; 



will be forgotten in a year, and laughed the faitii, manners, and habits, of eacii 



at by the next generation. country, constituting individual cliarac- 



11. Seek wisdom in all things, tiiat ter. 'J'o arrive at universal truth, to avoid 

 you may not be the dupe and slave of the establislicd errors of localities, and 

 the crai't and subtlety of others, that you to become free from the continuous errors 

 may be enabled to play an independent of previous ages, are therefore the pri- 

 part in society; and search deeply, that mary duties of all men who aspire to the 

 you may avoid conceit, by knowing how attributes of wisdom. 



little is known even by the wisest. 16. Practise toleration towards the 



12. Be not inconsistent in your ex- opinions and habits of I'ellow-creatures, 

 pectations; and, having chosen your each of whom is ihe passive iiistrumejit 

 walk through life, pursue it with pa- of his education and associations. Pity 

 tience, industry, and contentment: thus and teach, if your practices are unques- 

 if superiority in knowledge is your tionably belter ; but do not persecute or 

 object, do not envy the accumulations of inflict punisiiinent, either for ignorance, or 

 your thrifty neighbonr; if wealth is your for errors in tlie formation of character, 

 object, do not wonder that your c!)arac- arising from the vices of society, the 

 ter lor knowledge, justice, and liberality, prejudices imbiijcd in youth, or tlie 

 stands not so high as that of others ; and, if inattention of governments. 



the reputation of virtue isyour ambition, 

 you must govern your i)assions, practise 

 fofbearance without repining, and con- 

 sult the interest of otiiers as much as 

 your own. 



13. Let scintillations of pride be cor- 

 rected, by considering that yon ar<' inor- and very userui Magazine, p. 389, rela- 



CoMMON Sense. 

 To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



AVING observed my former let- 

 ter inserted, in your respectable 



tal; tiiat, only a few yeais ago, you 

 were not, and, in a icw years hence, will 

 not be ; and tiiat an eternity picceded 

 and will follosv you, redncing your span 

 of life to a point; that your possessions, 

 however vast, are but a speck on a little 

 globe, which is itself but a poitit in the 

 universe ; and that your bodily structure, 

 your secretions, your mechanism, and 

 your assimilations, are exactly the same 



five to Ihe heat generated in chimneys by 

 our domestic fires, wherein I iiave 

 alluded to a jiarlicular "extent of 

 o|)Cning" proper to the top of a chimney, 

 according to circumstances ; 1 beg, as 

 the matter is of very general interest, to 

 extract from Mr. Tredgold's book on 

 " Warming and Ventilating," his Kule 

 and Example, in p. 220, Sec. as to this 

 appoitioning of the proper size for a 



as those of all other men, and, it" not chiniiiey-top : it is as follows, viz. 



the same, you would be diseased, or 

 monster ; and remember that wisdom, 

 manners, and virtue, constitute the oidy 

 difference among human creatures. 



14. Respect the means adopted by 

 public social policy, to subjugate the 

 practices of the ignorant and unthinking 

 to their hopes, fears, and superstitions ; 

 for man, though a reasoning, is not a 

 rational animal, and for once that he 

 is right, he is wrong a hundrcil times; 

 consequently, his moral practicis in 

 society, which are governed by his im- 

 perfect reason, his selfish craft, and his 

 uniuly passions, generally require an 

 iniluence beyond his ordinary nature, io 

 jrcoder his association bearable. 

 .15. Promote education, free enquiry, 



Rule. — Lei 17 times the lenijiii of the 

 front grate-bars, in inches, be divided by 

 the sqaare-root of tlie lieight of the chim- 

 ney above the grate, in feet ; aud the quo- 

 tient is the proper area of tiie aperture of 

 the chimney-top, in inclies. 



Example. — Suppose the fire-grate to be 

 15 inches wide, and tlie cliimuey 36 feet 

 high, above the same; we have 17 X 15 -7- 

 v/ 36, :^ 42^ square inches: v»liicli being 

 equivalent to a circle 6\ inches diameter, 

 or to a rectansle 7 inches by 6, very 

 nearly, either of tliese may be adopted, as 

 the dimensions of the cliniiney top, and for 

 ten or twelve inches down the inside of the 

 same. Where chimney-tops or pots are at 

 present larger than these dimensions, they 

 may be conveniently reduced to the proper 

 size and siiape of opening, by a lining of 

 Roman or Parker's cement. 



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