upon, that no one unadorned with this virtue can go into company without giving a manifest offence. The different nations of the world are as much distinguished by their cleanliness, as by their arts and sciences. The more advanced in civilization, the more they consult this part of politeness. Secondly. Cleanliness may be said to be the foster-mother of affection. Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean, and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel that is cankered with rest. I might further observe, that as cleanliness renders us agreeable to others, so it makes us easy to ourselves; that it is an excellent preservative of health; and that several vices destructive both to body and mind, are inconsistent with the habit of it. In the third place, it bears a great analogy with purity of mind, and naturally inspires refined sentiments and passions. We find from experience, that through the prevalence of custom the most vicious actions lose their horror, by being made familiar to us. On the contrary, those who live in the neighborhood of good examples, fly from the first appearance of what is shocking; and thus pure and unsullied thoughts are naturally suggested to the mind by those objects that perpetually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their kind. In the East, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is a part of religion; the Jewish law (as well as the Mahometan, which in some things copies after it) is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature; and we read several injunctions of this kind in the book of Deuteronomy.Addison. Courtship of a Bashful Clergyman............ 362 Dying for his Master........ Cunning Device.......... Converting the Scolds...... 366 Discarded Lover.......... 359 475 481 482 Cicero's Retort...... Captain's Request. 378 Deity, Goodness of, Displayed in Creation... 519 537 t Seen in the Discoveries of the Age.... 558 | Intellectual, Temptations of the............. 573 564 World............. Humorous Selections............................... 359 Journey, The, through the World................................... 492 Lives and Incidents of Eminent Men......... 150 Mouth, The, and the Goggles.............................. 412 394 Men, Vilest of.......... 415 Monsieur de Sallo, and The Robber........... 477 Merchant, He will never make a.......... 448 253 271 .... 278 280 366 374 Lord Lenderden's Retort..... .... 377 Never Stationary............... 560 Lander, General, and the Bible................. 394 Effects of Love and Happiness, on The 545 N 156 |