ig6 reading tneijiordridums. April z%^ 



READING MEMORANDUMS. 

 Continued from p. 224. 

 It is an endleCs and frivolous pursuit to act by 

 any other rule than the care of satisfying our own 

 mind in what we do. There is no state of life s» 

 anxious, as that of a man who does not live accord- 

 ingto t he dictates of his own reason. 



What can be added to topics on which succefsive 

 ages have been employed ? The hope excited by a 

 work of a man of genius, being general and indefinite, 

 is rarely gratified. 



Wiaen debtors exert themselves to the utmost to d© 

 justice, humane -creditors will acccept their endea- 

 vours ; and their probity will compensate, in a great 

 measure, for what they cannot make good. 



I know not any crime so great, that a man could 

 contrive to commit, as poisoning (or confounding) 

 the sources of eternal truth. 



Infamy ought to be attached to an unchaste wo- 

 man \ We hang a thief for stealing a Iheep : But the 

 unchastity of a woman transfers flieep, and farm, and 

 all from the right owner. If a single woman is li- 

 centious, you will rarely fiad her faithful in mar- 

 riage. 



A man may write at any time, if he will set him- 



i?elf doggedly to it, 



I'd he continued. 



