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fees inftances of, that particular pieces of fuc cefs are apt to produce prefumption, and its confequent inattention, by which the lofs may be recovered, will learn not to be too much discouraged by the present fuccefs of his adversary, nor to despair of final good fortune, upon every little check he receives in the pursuit of it.

That we may, therefore, be induced more frequently to choose this beneficial amusement, in preference to others, which are not attended with the fame advantages, every circumftance which may encrease the pleasures of it should be regarded; and every action or word that is unfair, difrespectful, or that in any way may give uneasiness, fhould be avoided, as contrary to the immediate intention of both the players, which is to pass the time agreeably.

Therefore, first, if it is agreed to play according to the strict rules; then those rules are to be exactly observed by both parties, and should not be infifted on for one fide, while deviated from by the other for this is not equitable.

Secondly, if it is agreed not to obferve the rules exactly, but one party demands indulgencies, he should then be as willing to allow them to the other.

Thirdly, no false move fhould ever be made to extricate yourself out of a difficulty, or to gain an advantage. There can be no pleasure in playing with a person once detected in such unfair practice.

Fourthly, if your adversary is long in playing, you ought not to hurry him, or exprefs any uneafinefs at his delay. You should not fing, nor whistle, nor look at your watch, nor take up a

book to read, nor make a tapping with your feet on the floor, or with your fingers on the table, nor do any thing that may disturb his attention. For all these things displease, and they do not show your skill in playing, but your craftiness or your rudeness.

Fifthly, You ought not to endeavour to amuse and deceive your adversary, by pretending to have made bad moves, and faying that you have now loft the game, in order to make him fecure and careless, and inattentive to your schemes; for this is fraud and deceit, not skill in the game.

Sixthly, You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or infulting expreffion, nor show too much pleasure; but endeavour to confole your adverfary, and make him less diffatisfied with himself, by every kind of civil expreffion that may be ufed with truth, fuch as, "You understand the game better than I,, but you are a little inattentive;" or, "You play too faft;" or, "You had the beft of the game, but fomething happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in. my favour."

Seventhly, If you are a fpectator while others play, obferve the most perfect filence. For if you give advice, you offend both parties; him against whom you give it, because it may caufe the lofs of his game; him in whose favour you give it, becauíe, though it be good and he follows it, he lofes the pleasure he might have had, if you had permitted him to think until it ad occurred to himfelf. Even after a move, or oves, you must not, by replacing the picces, now how it might have been placed better:

for that difpleafes, and may occafion difputes and doubts about their true fituation. All talking to the players leffens or diverts their attention, and is therefore unpleafing. Nor fhould you give the least hint to either party, by any kind of noise or motion.

If you do, you are

If you have a mind

unworthy to be a spectator. to exercise or shew your judgment, do it in playing your own game, when you have an opportunity, not in criticifing, or meddling with, or counselling the play of others.

Laftly, If the game is not to be played rigo roufly, according to the rules above mentioned, then moderate your defire of victory over your adversary, and be pleased with one over yourself. Snatch not eagerly at every advantage offered by his unfkilfulness or inattention; but point out to him kindly, that by such a move he places or leaves a piece in danger and unfupported; that by another he will put his King in a perilous fituation, &c. By this generous civility (fo oppofite to the unfairness above forbidden) you may, indeed, happen to lose the game to your opponent, but you will win what is better, his esteem, his refpect, and his affection together with the filent approbation and goodwill of impartial spectators.

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Being written at her request.

As a great part of our life is spent in fleep,

during which we have fome times pleafing, and fometimes painful dreams, it becomes of fome confequence to obtain the one kind, and avoid the other; for, whether real or imaginary, pain is pain, and pleasure is pleasure. If we can fleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we fleep, we can have any pleafing dreams, it is, as the French fay, tant gagné, fo much added to the pleasure of life.

To this end it is, in the first place, neceffary to be careful in preserving health by due exercise, and great temperance; for, in sickness, the imagination is disturbed ; and disagreeable, fometimes terrible, ideas are apt to prefent themselves. Exercife fhould precede meals, not immediately follow them the first promotes, the latter, unlefs moderate, obftructs digeftion. If, after exercife we feed fparingly, the digestion will be eafy and good, the body lightfome, the temper cheerful, and all the animal functions performed agreeably. Sleep, when it follows, will be atural and undisturbed. While indolence, with full feeding, occafion night-mares and horrors inexpreffible: we fall from precipices, are asfaulted by wild beafts, murderers, and demons, and experience every variety of diftrefs. Ob

serve, however, that the quantities of food and exercife, are relative things: those who move much may, and indeed ought to eat more; those who ufe little exercise, should eat little. In general, mankind, fince the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires. Suppers are not bad, if we have not dined; but reftlefs nights naturally follow hearty suppers, after full dinners. Indeed, as there is a difference in conftitutions, fome reft well after these meals; it costs them only a frightful dream, and an apoplexy, after which they fleep till doomsday. Nothing is more common in the newspapers, than inftances of people, who, after eating a hearty fupper, are found dead a-bed in the morning.

Another means of preferving health, to be attended to, is the having a conftant supply of fresh air in your bed-chamber. It has been a great mistake, the fleeping in rooms exactly clofed, and in beds furrounded by curtains. No outward air, that may come into you, is so unwholesome as the unchanged air, often breathed of a clofe chamber. As boiling water does not grow hotter by longer boiling, if the particles that receive greater heat can escape: fo living bodies do not putrify, if the particles, as faft as they become putrid, can be thrown off. Nature expels them by the pores of the fkin and lungs, and in a free open air, they are carried off; but, in a clofe room, we receive them again and again, though they become more and more corrupt. A number of perfons crowded into a fmall room, thus spoil the air in a few minutes,

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