24 BENEFITS Of KNOWLEDGE. Sept. 14, 



page for every flage of fortune, from 50000I. to the 

 lowell income of the Hate, calculations of expence, 

 mathematical demonftrations to fliew a man on look- 

 ing at the ftile of his houfe, and lift of his fervants, 

 that he mufh be ruined ; to foretell the precife mo- 

 ment, to prefcribe the certain remedy. Something very 

 popular, and quite new, miglit be done on this fub- 

 je£t by Genius and Induftry. A book of this fort 

 would be as much bought, and perhaps now a days 

 more read than the bible. Give us foniething of this 

 fort when you can find leifure for it in the Bee. 



A. B. T. 



Detached ObfervntioHS. 



The prefence of thcfe whom we have injured, and 

 who have generoufly pardoned us, is in almoft all cafes 

 difagreeable, even where we do not hate them ; be- 

 caufe it brings back the recolledlion of a fault commit- 

 ted, and of a benefit received ; — a fault which has be- 

 come the more humiliating for us by the benefit which 

 has fucceeded it. We fee in them our benefaftor, 

 and the witnefs of cur injulHce. We fee them 

 placed fo much above ourfelves, that the thought is 

 too humiliating for human nature not to prove ex- 

 tremely unpleafant. Wc never ought to offend any 

 perfon ; becaufe that is unjuft, and bccaufe the offence is 

 afource ofreciprocal enmities. Sometimes we break with 

 thofe whom we have offended, without their breaking 

 with us j we hate them without their ceafmg to love us. 

 There are many occafions when it would not bs very 

 unreafonable in us fay, I conjure you to forget and to par~ 

 don me for the injury you have done me. 



It is a mark of a great mind to be able cordially to 

 efteem, and have a hnccre friendfliip for the perfon 

 whom v/e have once confiderably injured. Such a 

 mind alone can comprehend the polhbiiity of fincerely 

 forgiving the offence, and of courfc be fatisfied that 

 the marks of friendfliip beflowed are not effaced. 



