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and taste ; bat the modern historian, also to the phi- 

 losopher, and the statesman ; the one gives us more 

 pleasure and the other more instruction. In read- 

 ing ancient history we travel through a country rich 

 with all the elegant embellifliments of nature, but 

 modern history is a field, which, though lefs splendid 

 in its prospects, and lefs luxuriant in its growth, is 

 of more uniform and better cultivation, and encum- 

 bered with fewer weeds. 



Philo. 



THE NECESSITY OF ROGUERY EXEMPLIFIED. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 

 In the present philosophical age, when one pro- 

 found discovery succeeds another, and darknefs, is 

 as it were, converted into light ; by which the old 

 maxim, sanctimoniously revered in the cloudy age 

 of our ancestors, is now discovered to be the effect 

 of prejudice and error : The old adage, that " ho- 

 nesty is the best policy," is now become antiquated ; 

 and the present enlightened generation has discover- 

 ed, policy to be the best honesty, and the best adapted 

 to the age we live in. When we take a view of the 

 world, as it now presents itself, and consider the dif- 

 ferent profefsions, and various pursuits of mankind 5 

 that their -whole aim is to accumulate riches, then 

 we fliall be able to conceive the necefsity of roguery.. 

 We fhall soon perceive that honesty is too illiberal, 

 too scanty, too confined a system, to comprehend ^11 

 ihp grar.d transactions of tlie world. 



