Mais. CELLWANE 
civility towards the more diftant; 
let there be no marked diftinétion 
between thofe, on either fide, in 
your own breaft: natural affection 
_ may, nay, ought to prevail. 
During the education of men in 
fchools, colleges, and academies, 
friendfhips are formed, perhaps too 
early fometimes to be judicious, but 
equally hard to diflolve: if, in con- 
fequence, -you behold fuch with 
pain; do not attempt to break them 
with precipitation. - 
When a perfon fhall fee his friends 
coolly received in his own houfe, 
he will naturally feek occafions to 
meet them abroad : maintain, there- 
fore, your intereft with him, by a 
polite behaviour to thofe he fo 
prefers, although you may not. 
Jealoufy is oft ideal; it is ca- 
pricious, its dictates inconfiderate, 
its fuggeftions fata! to mutual re- 
pofe, — 
The delicate, but firm counfels of 
a friend, of religion, and, if poffible, 
a fpeedy retreat for awhile, are the 
fafeft remedies againft the artful, 
but foothing attentions of real, or 
feeming admirers, at moments when 
the mind is irritated. by reproach, 
or the feverities infli@ted by unjuft 
fufpicions. 
Sheuld your union be attended 
with greater felicity than is the 
_ufual lot of our fex, govern your 
ae 
juft affections to preferve it: by 
too much anxiety you may deftroy 
: at. 
Sufficient are the real difficulties 
we have each to encounter, in the 
courfe of our lives; create none 
therefore: wfe your reafon in com- 
bating the former; and be filent if 
_ the weaknefs of your frame prevent 
an entire fuppreffion of fictitious 
ones. 
If afflicted with bad health, ftudy 
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to avoid complaint; it is an en- 
creafing habit, affording no effential 
relief to the fufferer, and apt to 
make the lives of others as irkfome 
@s your own, 
’ You will contract indelicacy by a 
defcription of your infirmities : you 
may perhaps excite compaffion from 
a humane difpofition. but you rifque 
a diminution of-afrecion. 
_ Whatever diflentions may: arife 
(how much foever your conduct 
- and underftanding may juftify the 
part you take in them) fuffer the 
interference of no ¢hird perfon; 
but more efpecially if you fuppofe 
their partiality would lead them to 
decide in your favour. 
Thofe friendthips which are early 
produced between two very young 
wotnen, in the theatre of the great 
world, and where both are equally 
engaged in all the frivolities of fa- 
fhion, are ufually very lightly ce- 
mented, and are as briefly diflolved. 
If your fortune be moderate, ceco- 
nomy is abfolutely neceflary. 
If confiderable, methad and prue 
dence will render it doubly bene. 
ficial. 
Obferve the utmoft regularity in 
the keeping of your houfehold ac- 
counts; it is tranquillity to you, 
juftice to your dependents. . 
The luxury of this age exacts 
from the miftrefs of a great houfe, 
or indeed a fmaller, fome attention 
to a table; difdain not therefore to 
give a proper application to that 
fludy. 
With regard to drefs, do not 
afpire to be a leader in fafhions, 
nor exceflive in point of ornament, 
Follow fathions at_a moderate 
diftance, nor blindly adopt fuch as 
may expofe you to ridicule; for 
fervile imitation makes uo diftinc- 
tions, 
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