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' Let such sentiments and plans prevail, and I will 
be bound to keep the peace of the country, against 
all the pains and Paznes that may be used to disturb 
it. . 
Nothing but good can happen Ya an industrious 
and enlightened country; andit is to the want of 
light and of industry, that we are to impute the 
confusions and miseries of France, and of the conti- 
nent, and not to the natural principles and desire of 
freedom. 
‘¢ He nobis erunt artes pacisque imponere morem,”” 
‘* Sic patriam amplectans viam eamus Olympo.”” 
- An Op CorRESPONDENT- 
READING MEMORANDUMS. 
For the Bee. 
Ler us neither think so highly of ourselves as to 
imagine we are above receiving light from books ; 
nor so meanly, as to think we cannot invent or dis- 
cover without their immediate afsistance ;—diligently 
examining, therefore, the observations of others, let 
us trust chiefly to our own experience. 
It is very necefsary ina polifhed age, to recom- 
mend truth by elegance, and to embellith philosophy 
with polite literature, because small is the proporti- 
on of mankind, in such a state, who will sacrifice 
their pleasure to their improvement ; and if many 
readers are to be desired, they must be attracted by 
the graces of style, and the harmony of compositi- 
on. 
VOL. xii. Zz Tt 
