358 IIEXRT KTRKE WHITE'S REMAIlfS. 



of wliicli will be in correspondence to your past life, un- 

 utterably happy, or inconceivably miserable. Your fate 

 will probably depend on your early pursuits — it will be 

 these which will give the turn to your character and to 

 your pleasures. I beseech you, therefore, Avith a meek 

 and lowly spirit, to read the pages of that book which 

 the wisest and best of men have acknowledged to be the 

 Word of God. You will there find a rule of moral con- 

 duct, such as the world never had any idea of before its 

 divulgation. If you covet earthly happiness, it is only 

 to be found in the path you will find there laid down, and 

 I can confidently promise you, in a life of simplicity and 

 purity, a life passed in accordance with the divine word, 

 such substantial bliss, such unrufi[ied peace, as is nowhere 

 else to be found. All other schemes of earthly pleasure 

 are fleeting and unsatisfactory. They all entail upon 

 them repentance and bitterness of thought. This alone 

 endureth for ever — this alone embraces equally the pre- 

 sent and the future— this alone can arm a man against 

 every calamity — can alone shed the balm of peace over 

 that scene of life when pleasures have lost their zest, and 

 the mind can no longer look forward to the dark and 

 mysterious future. Above all, beware of the ignis fatuus 

 of false philosophy : that must be a very defective system 

 of ethics which will not bear a man through the most 

 trying stage of his existence, and I know of none that 

 will do it but the Christian. 



W. 



MELANCHOLY HOURS,— No. Till. 



"Ogtic "hoyov; yxp 'TruQoi.KOirx^'^KYiy a; T^aQav 

 'Els? -TTS!/, xdiKo; STTiu, J? dfc^ccTVi; ciyccy. 

 ' 'Igou; Be y ktah ocf/.(porsQoi kukoi. 



Anaxandrides apud Suidam. 



Much has been said of late on the subject of inscriptive 

 writing, and that, in my opinion, to very little purpose. 



