others. To make any happiness fincere it is neceffary that we believe it to be lafting; fince whatever we suppose ourselves in danger of lofing, muft be enjoyed with folicitude and uneafinefs, and the more value we fet upon it, the more muft the prefent poffeffion be imbittered. How can he then be envied for his felicity, who knows that its continuance cannot be expected, and who is confcious that a very fhort time will give him up to the gripe of poverty, which will be harder to be borne, as he has given way to more exceffes, wantoned in greater abundance, and indulged his appetites with more profufenefs?

It appears evident that frugality is neceffary even to complete the pleasure of expence; for it may be generally remarked of those who squander what they know their fortune not sufficient to allow, that in their most jovial expence, there always breaks out fome proof of discontent and impatience; they either scatter with a kind of wild desperation and affected lavishness, as criminals brave the gallows when they cannot escape it, or pay their money with a peevith anxiety, and endeavour at once to spend idly, and to fave meanly: having neither firmness to deny their paffions, nor courage to gratify them, they murmur at their own enjoyments,

and

and poifon the bowl of pleasure by reflection on the cost.

Among these men there is often the vociferation of merriment, but very feldom the tranquillity of chearfulness; they inflame their imaginations to a kind of momentary jollity, by the help of wine and riót, and confider it as the first bufinefs of the night to ftupify recollection, and lay that reafon asleep which disturbs their gaiety, and calls upon them to retreat from ruin.

But this poor broken fatisfaction is of short continuance, and must be expiated by a long series of mifery and regret. In a fhort time the creditor grows impatient, the laft acre is fold, the paffions and appetites ftill continue their tyranny, with inceffant calls for their ufual gratifications, and the remainder of life paffes away in vain repentance or impotent defire.

MAN of BUSINESS.

AN uninterrupted intercourfe with the world,

oppreffes the man of business and ambition. The ftrongeft fpirit muft at length fail and fink under it. The happieft temper must be foured by inceffant

inceffant returns of the oppofition, the inconftancy

and the treachery of men.

For he who lives al

ways in the bustle of the world, lives in a perpetual warfare: here, an enemy encounters; there The ingratitude of a friend

a rival fupplants him. ftings him at this hour, wounds him the next. to trifling amusements: These may afford a temporary opiate to cure, but they communicate no Arength to the mind. On the contrary, they leave it more foft and defenceless, when moleftation and injuries renew the attack.

and the pride of a fuperior In vain he flies for relief

W

The PRAISE of GOD.

HAT is praife? It is a part of that divine worship which we owe to the Power that made us; it is an acknowledgment of the perfections of God, afcribing all excellencies to him, and confeffing all the works of nature and grace to proceed from him. Now, when we apply ourselves to this work, and dress up our notions of a God in magnificence of language,-when we furnish them out with fhining figures, and pronounce them with founding words,-we fancy ourselves to fay great things, and are even charmed with our own forms of praife: but, alas! the highest and best of

them,

them, fet in a true light, are but the feeble voice of a creature, fpreading before the Almighty Being that made him, fome of his own low and little ideas, and telling him what he thinks of the Great God, and what God has done. When the holy Pfalmift would exprefs his honourable thoughts of his Maker, they amount only to this, "Thou art good, and thou doft good." Pfal. CXIX. How inconfiderable an offering is this for a God! and yet fo condefcending is his love, that he looks down, and is well pleased to receive it.

A True and Faithful Inventory of the
GOODS belonging to Dr. SWIFT;

A

UPON LENDING HIS HOUSE

To the BISHOP of MEATH,
'TILL HIS PALACE WAS REBUILT.

N óaken, broken elbow-chair;

A caudle-cup without an ear;

A batter'd, fhatter'd afh bedstead;
A box of deal, without a lid;

A pair of tongs, but out of joint;
A back-fword poker, without point;
pot that's crack'd across, around
With an old knotted garter bound;

A

An

An iron lock, without a key;

A wig, with hanging quite grown grey;
A curtain worn to half a stripe;

A pair of bellows, without pipe;

A difh which might good meat afford once;
An Ovid, and an old Concordance;
A bottle-bottom, wooden platter,
One is for meal, and one for water:
There likewife is a copper fkillet,

Which runs as faft out as you

fill it;

A candlestick, fnuff-difh, and fave-all:
And thus his household goods you have all.
These to your Lordship, as a friend,

Till you have built, I freely lend:
They'll ferve your Lordfhip for a shift;

Why not as well as Doctor Swift.

ANECDOTE

OF

Mr. ADDISON.

ADDISON and Mr. Temple Stanyan were very intimate. In the familiar converfation which paffed between them, they were accuftomed freely to difpute each other's opinions. Upon fome occafions, Mr. Addifon fent Stanyan five

hundred