524 LETTER TO [PART III. 



" emigration of the tribe of grumblers^ people 

 " who are petulant and discontented under the 

 " every-day evils of life. Life has its petty 

 *' miseries in all situations and climates, to be 

 " mitigated or cured by the continual efforts of 

 f< an elastic spirit, or to be borne, if incurable, 

 " with cheerful patience. But the peevish emi- 

 " grant is perpetually comparing the comforts 

 4f he has quitted, but never could enjoy, with 

 " the privations of his new allotment. He over- 

 u looks the present good, and broods over the 

 " evil with habitual perverseness ; whilst in the 

 " recollection of the past, he dwells on the 

 " good only. Such people are always bad as- 

 " sociates, but they are an especial nuisance in 

 " an infant colony." 



976. Give me leave to say, my dear Sir, that 

 there is too much asperity in this language, con 

 sidering who were the objects of the censure. 

 Nor do you appear to me to afford, in this in 

 stance, a very happy illustration of the absence 

 of that peevishness, which you perceive in 

 others, and for the yielding to which you call 

 them a nuisance ; an appellation much too harsh 

 for the object and for the occasion. If you, 

 with all your elasticity of spirit, all your ardour 

 of pursuit, all your compensations of fortune in 

 prospect, and all your gratifications of fame in 

 possession, cannot with patience hear -the wail- 



