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was, that on a Sacrament Sunday, he /hut himfelf up in 

 his room, and after a long prayer, made a folemn oath 

 that he fhould never in his life fpeak a true fentence to 

 a gauger (excife officer). He ever afterwards confidered 

 this oath of greater weight than the other; and his con- 

 fcience as very free from flain, although he perjured 

 himfelf once every three months. 



" How eafy can laffes true what they defire." 

 are the words of a famous Scottiih bard, and apply to 

 men and wives as well as laffes. 



Such are the practices of men ; and while temptation 

 is in action, ever will be. — I (hall not however, be with- 

 out the hope of feeing a better fyftem of checking evil 

 praftices, and of feeing the adminidrators of govern- 

 ment, employ the fame able talents that were exerted 

 laft 3' ear in evinciag the propriety of obliging all man- 

 kind to think in the fame wayf, in. deviling methods 

 of eftablilhing virtue, honour, and liberty among the 

 people. A. A. L. 



"To the Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 

 If you think the following obfervations deferve a 

 place in your raifcellany, they are very much at your 

 fervice. yi conjlant reader. 



On Imagination, and the Ahufes of it. 

 It has been obferved of imagination, that it holds a 

 middle place betwixt the pleafures of intelleft, and 

 thofe of fenfe. Elevatsd above mere feeling, it par- 

 takes alfo much of the refinement of underftanding. It 

 retains as much feeling as to interell deeply, and at the' 

 lame time reaches to the variety of mental powers, 

 t Teft A.& . 



