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My fons, let your unfeemly difcord ceafe, 
If not in_/r?en^z^, live at lead in peace. Dryden. 
Favour; perfonal kindnefs.—Raw captains are ufually 
fent, only preferred hy friendjfliipy and not chofen by fuf. 
ficiency. Spenfer. 
His frundjliipi, dill to few confin’d. 
Were always of the middling kind. Swift. 
Adidance; help : 
Gracious, my lord, hard-by here is a hovel : 
Some frkndjliip wiVi it lend you ’gaind the temped ; 
Repole you there. King Lear. 
Conformity; affinity; correfpondence ; aptnefs to unite. 
—We know thofe colours which have a frkndfliip with 
each other, and thofe vvhich are incompatible, in mixing 
together thofe colours of whicli we would make trial. 
Dryden. 
Many connexions are formed, and dignified with the 
name of frien'djhip, upon no other principle but the 
fordid hope which one or perhaps each of the parties 
entertains of accomplifhing fome felfifli purpofe through 
the affidance of the other : but fuch a conneXion is fo 
ba.Oe in its nature, and fo tranfitory in its duration, as to 
render it unworthy of the nam.e of frienddiip. Tlie in- 
ftinXive affeXion which a parent entertains for his child, 
as well as that wliich the child fetls for his parent, feem 
intended by nature to form an union between the perfons 
thus related to each other : but the union between pa¬ 
rents and children, when fupported by no other principle 
but indinX, is different from friendthip ; it extends no 
farther than to caufe the parent to provide for his child 
during his helplefs years, and the cliild to look up to his 
parent for proteXion and fupport. We need not mention 
that appetite which is the foundation of love, and is the 
provifion which nature has made for the continuation of 
cur fpecies. This appetite alone, unadided by fome 
nobler principle, cannot give rife to any conneXion wor¬ 
thy of an h.onourable name. 
When two perfons of virtue and abilities contemplate 
each the other’s cliaraXer and conduX, they cannot but 
view them with complacency and edeem. Habits and 
aXions difplaying prudence, fortitude, moderation, inte¬ 
grity, benevolence, and piety, naturally command the 
approbation of the impartial fpeXator, and even affeX 
him with delight. Hence the fociety of fuch a perfon is 
ever preferred to one who is difgraced by the oppofite 
qualities. Whenever men of fucir truly refpeXablecha- 
raXers enjoy opportunities of mutual intercourfe, an at- 
tachiuent naturally takes place between tliem, entirely 
difintercded, and founded lolely on the approbation with 
which the one cannot avoid regarding the conduX of the 
ether. The edeem which the one is thus induced to en¬ 
tertain for the other will lead them to feek frequent op- 
.portunities of enjoying each other’s fociety, muiually to 
afk and liden to advice, to trud their mod fecret and im¬ 
portant purpofes to each otherls confidence, and to be no 
lefs concerned eacli of them for the other’s intered and 
honour tlran for his own. This, and this alone, is ge¬ 
nuine frienddiip ; founded on virtue, and on that approba¬ 
tion which virtue never fails to command : it is a natural 
coidequence of intercourfe between virtuous men. Where 
itis once edabliffied, it cannot die, while thofe virtues to 
which it owes its origin continue to adorn the perfons be¬ 
tween whom it fublids. 
But to cherifli and preferve friendfnip. Dr. Blair incul¬ 
cates the following excellent admonitions : “ It is material 
to the prefervation of frienddiip, tliat opennefs of temper 
and manners, on both hands, be cultivated. Nothing 
more certainly diifolves frienddiip, than the jealoufy 
■which arifes from darkiiefs and^concealment. If your 
fitiiation oblige you to take a different fide from your 
triend, do it openly. Avow your conduX; avow your 
motives; as far as lionour allows, difclofe yourfelves 
frankly ; feek no cover from unnecelfury and myderious 
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fecrecy. Mutual, confidence is the foul of frienddiip. 
As foon as that is dedroyed, or even impaired, it is only 
a thow of frienddiip that remains. What was once cor¬ 
dial intimacy, degenerates fil'd into formal civility. Con- 
draint on both fides next fiicceeds; and difgiid or hatred 
foon follows. Tlie maxim that has been laid down by 
certain crooked politicians, to behave to a friend with the 
fame guarded caution as we would do to an enemy, be. 
caufe it is poffiblethat he may one day become fuch,’ dif. 
covers a mind vvhich never was made for tiv enjoyments 
of frienddiip. It isa maxim which may indeed find place 
in mere political and party frienddiips, where perfonal 
advancement is always in view : but it is altogether incon- 
fident vviih the fpirit of thofe frienddiips, which are form¬ 
ed, and underdood to be nouridied, by the heart. 
“The mod important objeX for the prefervation of 
frienddiip is, to cultivate, in all intercourfe amonv 
friend?, gentle and obliging manners. It is a* common 
error to iuppofe, that familiar intimacy fuperfedes atten¬ 
tion to the leffer duties of behaviour; and that, under 
the notion of freedom, it may excufe a carelefs,. or even 
a rougli, demeanour. On the contrary, an intimate con¬ 
nexion can only be kept up, by a condant widi to be 
pleafing and agreeable. The nearer and clofer that men 
are brought together, the more frequent that the points 
of coiitaX between them become, there is the greater ne- 
ceffity for the furface being fniooth, and every, thino- be¬ 
ing removed that can grate or offend. Let no harth'nefs,- 
no appearance of negleX, no fupercilious affeXation of 
fuperiority, occur in the intercourfe of friends. A tart 
reply, a pronenefs to rebuke, a captious and contradic¬ 
tious fpirit, are often know n to embitter domedic life, and 
to fet friends at variance. In thofe fmaller articles of be¬ 
haviour, where men are too apt to be carelefs, and to in¬ 
dulge their humour without redraint, the real cliaraXer 
is often underdood to break forth, and dievv itfelf. It is 
by no means enough, that, in all matters of ferious iii- 
tered, we think onrfelves ready to prove the fincerity of 
our frienddiip. Thefe occur more rarely. The ordinarv 
tenor of life is compofed of fniall duties and offices, which 
men have occafion daily to perform ; and it is only by ren¬ 
dering daily behaviour agreeable, that we can lono- pre¬ 
ferve the comforts of frienddiip.” ° 
FRI'ER, yi See Friar. 
FREER, f. witli printers, a part of a fheet or page ra¬ 
ther grey than black, from a want of ink. 
FRIE'RA, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Tra-Ios-Montes : four leagues fouth-wed of Outeiro. 
FRI ER’s HEAD, a cape on the ead coad of the ifland. 
of Antigua. L-o. I'l. ii. N, Ion. 6i. 22. vV. Greenwich. 
FRI'ERY, adj. abounding in fuch grey fpots as men- 
tioned above. SeeF’RiER. 
FRIESL'AND, one of die dates of the United Nether, 
lands, or'Batavian republic, fo called from the Frifons, a 
warlike people, whofe country formerly extended from the 
Scheldt to the Wefer. The country of which we are now 
fpeaking, is bounded on th.e north by theGerman Ocean, on 
the ead by Groningen and Overiffel, on the fouth by Ove- 
riffeland the ZuyderSea, and on the wed by tlie Flie river. 
Friefland ill its air and foil refembles Holland, efpecially 
in the north-wed parts, which lie lower than the lea, and 
are particularly remarkable for fine padures, in which, 
befides excellent oxen, cows, and dieep, a great number of 
larg« liorfes are bred, for fale into Germany and other 
countries. In the more elevated parts is found good corn 
land, and the wheat is particularly edeemed for the fine- 
iiefs of the ears and whitenefsof the flour. Peat forms 
one of the principal articles of fuel, and towards the fouth 
and fouth ead there are extendve he'atlis and woods. 
The inhabitants, for warn of fandiiills along the fea-coaff, 
are under the neceffity of fecuring theinfelves by means of 
dykes ; which, though abfolutely iieced'ary, yet are at. 
tended with vad expence. Formerly, when the care of 
thefe dykes were only the private concern of the propri¬ 
etors of particular edates, they were very low, and fre¬ 
quently 
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