1C4 reading Tncmoi-andum!. J^fy i^. 



from the luudable pursuit of legitimate fame. How 

 many familiei. have been blefscd and restored by the 

 prudence and economy of mothers and wives who 

 Jiave survived their hufbands I 



What a bounty they have to improve their minds, 

 and to elevate their thoughts, that they may be able 

 to imbue the tender minds of their children with 

 useful knowledge, and with the principle's of moral 

 sentiment, without which nothing excellent can be H 

 expected when they rise to maturity. 



By degrees 



The human blolsotn blows, and every day, 



t'.oft aa it rnl!s along, /hews some levv cliarm, \ 



Ti.e farhc's Sustre and the mother's bloom. 



T.htn infant reason grows ap.)ce, and calls 



For the kind hand of an jfsiduous carej 



Dcl'ghttul talk! to rear the" tender thought, 



To teach thj young i.iea how to (hoot, 



To pour the frefti instruction o'ei the ijiind, 



To breathe th' ihij-iiing spirit, and to plant 



The g-neroiis purpose in the glowing breast. - £_ 



The dear and tender attachments that bind paren::s 

 to their children, serve also as a subsequent and more 

 affecting nuptial hznA. for uniting those parents more 

 intimately to each other, and draw about them a 

 new circle of interest and of love. 



Foreknowlege of evil, would but double the mi- 

 sery ; and foreknowledge of good, would but de- 

 prive us of hope, by certainty ; and hope is a blefsiri£ 

 perhaps preferable to pofsefsion. 



liappinefs is not the gift of riches alone, but de- 

 pendent on a right way of thinking, and a proper re- 

 gulation of our pafsions and appetites. , 



