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REx^DING MEMORANDUr^S. 

 For the Bee. 

 No pleasure is comparable to the standing upei 

 the vantage ground of truth, (an hill not to be com- 

 manded, and where the air is always clear and se- 

 rene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and 

 n;ists, and tempests in the valley below: So always, 

 however, that this prospect be with pity, and not 

 with swelling of jjride. Certainly it is heaven up- 

 on earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest 

 m providence, and turn upon the poles of truth." 



Lord Bacon s efsays. 



"' It is as nalurail to die as to be born ; and to a little 

 infant, who anticipates no evil, perhaps the one is as 

 little painful as the other. 



" He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that 

 i-s wounded in hot blood, who, for the time, sca,rce 

 feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind, fixed and bent 

 upon somewhat that is good and praise worth}', does 

 t'liertby avert the terrors of death." Bacon. 



he wifties to see in this miscelhiny, and hopes no one will. so f.\r presurr.e 

 upon this ;ndu'g"nce as to expect a s milar mc.tle ot vvritlng will b; er- 

 c airaged by him. Should this be permitted we might expect rejoinde-.s 

 and replies w't! out end, where every one <o; tended cnly for victory, or 

 to display the stretch of his own talents. To avoid such useltfs discufi; — 

 WIS, tl-e Editor begs leave to inform this writer and orhers, that he will 

 carefully nject such p:ecfs as appear to him to be. calculated for that pu*"- 

 pr'se chiefly, by whoms jever they be wiitien, or on whatever subject. 

 Wliere .men differ in opinion from. each other, and calmly adduce agi- 

 ments in favour of that opinion, without any peisonal allusions, they IhaH 

 be artenJed to with all pofsib'e tenriernef,, if they do not run out to tr^r 

 great a length. This conduct he thiirf^s ihjjUi give ,".o j".3!: c«'Jie .■f , 

 o/Jence to sny ca:idid person. 



