C4 reading memorandums. March 14. 



Adieu, then, good Sir, for the present. Continue 

 to promote industry, sobriety and (Economy, and to 

 •cheriih the beneficent affections of mankind ; and if 

 «ver you ftiould attain to an advanced period of life, 

 'you will then feel that the consciousuefs of this will 

 afford you a pleasure that nothing else can confer. 

 'Should the approach of good weather bring addition- 

 al strength, you may perhaps hear again from your 

 "friend and wellwiflier. Senex. 



READING MEMORANDUMS. 



Continued from vol. vii. />. 176. 



Avoid all heating, fermented, and spirituous liquors^ 



" Which unnerve the limbs, 

 " And dull the noble mind." 



It is not the hard bed, nor the homely board, that 

 give stings to poverty : The opprefsive insolence of 

 proud prosperity alone can wound the ingenuous 

 -oiind. 



The satisfaction arising from a consciousnefs of in- 

 nocence, are not of a fugitive kind : They will sup- 

 port us in the midst of the most trying calamities of 

 human life. 



Jcy is of prodigious service to the features ; it 

 makes agreeable people look still morie agreeable ; 

 and it makes even ugly beings to be endured. 



He who is not born to alter the opinions of the age 

 he lives in, ought always to respect them, so long as 

 they are consistent with virtue and morality. 

 To be continued. 



