262 \ k  gndes indicatorius, Cet. 16, 
Inpex InpicaTortovs. 
Continued from p. 192. 
W. M. favoured the Editor long ago with some imitations of the stile 
and manner of writing adopted by the translators of the Englith Bible, 
which he did not think would prove acceptable to many of his tea- 
ders. Along with this came some detached remarks, of which the 
following is a specimen. , 
* Inorder to understand the beauties of an author, it is necefsary 
_ to be in a situation somewhat like to that in which he was, and ime 
prefsed with ideas somewhat similar to those which he had when he 
wrote. If this be admitted, there is not a proof more demonstrative 
of the depravity ef those men’s minds who slight the bible, 
“ Happinefs and misery are pretty equally blended together in 
human life : there is as much of the former as may reconcile us te 
life, and as much of the latter as may preserve us from too much ate 
tachment to it, 
' © Those men who are somewhat callous in their feelings, enjoy life 
with an equanimity of mind which renders it perhaps as agreeable to 
them as it is to uthers of more acute sensibility ; for though they may 
not be susceptible of so much pleasure from many smail incidents that 
daily occur, they are equally invulnerable by those of an a 
tye 
“ Perhaps the pleasures of manhood and youth are in like manner 
nearly equally balanced. In youth, while the pafsions are all alive, 
the imagination lively, and the sensations acute, the happinefs that 
is sometimes experienced is exquisite; but the miseries that are suf- 
fered before it has learnt to combat, far lefs to conquer the ills of life, 
are equally acute. In manhood the happinefs is of a more temperate 
and rational kind, arising from the succels of plans digested with care, 
the fidelityof persons whose characters have been investigated with a 
cautious circumspection, and the consciousnefs of obtaining the good 
will of those who merit esteem; but the very caution that guards 
against the exquisite miseries of youth, allays in like.manner the raps 
trous sensations of pleasure of which it was so extremely susceptible.” 
Aristides complains of the partiality that some masters {how to one 
apprentice in comparison of another, with regard to the instructing 
them ia their-calling. ‘f It is well known, he ‘says, that it isin oe 
