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bedient and undutiful. Their love of pleafure operates fo violently as often to deftroy the fource of filial affection.

18. A parent is ftung to the heart by the ingratitude of a child. He checks his precipitancy, and perhaps with too lit tle command of temper; for who can always hold the reins? Afperity produces afperity. But the child was the aggreffor and therefore deferves a great part of the misery which enfues.

19. It is however, certain that the parent is often imprudent, as well as the child undutiful. He should endeavor to render home agreeable, by gentleness and reasonable indulgence; for man at every age, feeks to be pleased, but more particularly at the juvenile age.

20. He should indeed maintain his authority; but it should be like the mild dominion of a limited monarch, and not the iron rule of an austere tyrant. If home is rendered pleafing, it will not be long deferted. The prodigal will foon return, when his father's houfe is always ready to receive him with joy.

21. What is faid of the confequences of domeftic difunion to fons, is equally to be applied to daughters. Indeed, as the misconduct of daughters is more fatal to family peace, though perhaps not more hainous in a moral view, particular care fhould be taken to render them attached to the comforts of the family circle.

22. When their home is difagreeable, they will be ready to make any exchange; and will often lofe their characters, virtue and happinefs, in the purfuit of it. Indeed the female character and happiness are fo eafily injured, that no folicitude can be too great in their prefervation. But prudence is neceffary in every good caufe, as well as zeal; and it is found by experience, that the gentleft method of government, if it is limited and directed by good fenfe, is the best.

23. It ought indeed to be fteady, but not rigid; and every pleafure which is innocent in itself, and in its confequences, ought to be admitted, with a view to render lefs difagreeable that unwinking vigilance, which a delicate and fenfible parent will judge neceffary to be used in the care of a daughter.

24. To what wickednefs as well as wretchednefs matrimonial difagreements lead, every day's hiftory will clearly inform When the husband is driven from his home by a termagant, he will feek enjoyment, which is denied him at home, in the haunts of vice, and in the riots of intemperance: Nor

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ean female corruption be wondered at, tho it must be greatly pitied and regretted, when, in the heart of a husband, which love and friendship fhould warm, hatred is found to rankle.

25. Conjugal infelicity not only renders life moft uncomfortable, but leads to defperate diffolutenefs and careleffness in ' manners, which terminate in the ruin of health, peace and fortune.

26. But it avails little to point out evils without recommend. ing a remedy. One of the first rules which fuggefts itself is, that families, fhould endeavor, by often and feriously reflecting on the subject, to convince themselves that not only the enjoyments but the virtues of every individual, greatly depend on. a cordial union.

27. When they are convinced of this, they will endeavor to promote it; and it fortunately happens, that the very wish and attempt of every individual must infallibly fecure fuccefs. It may, indeed, be difficult to reftrain the occafional fallies of temper; but where there is, in the more difpaffionate moments, a fettled defire to preserve domestic union, the tranfient violence of paffion will not often produce a permanent rupture.

28. It is another most excellent rule, to avoid a grofs familiarity, even where the connection is mofi intimate. The human heart is fo conftituted as to love refpect. It would indeed be unnatural in very intimate friends to behave to each other with ftiffnefs; but there is a delicacy of manner, and a flattering deference, that tend to preserve that degree of efteem which is neceffary to fupport affection, and which is loft in contempt, when it deviates into exceffive familiarity.

29. An habitual politenefs of manners will prevent even indifference from degenerating to hatred. It will refine, exalt and perpetuate affection.

30. But the best and most efficacious rule is, that we should not think our moral and religious duties are only to be practiced in public, and in the fight of thofe from whofe applaufe we expect the gratification of our vanity, ambition or ava rice; But that we should be equally attentive to our behaviour among those who can only pay us by reciprocal love.

31. We must fhew the fincerity of our principles and profeffions by acting confiftent with them, not only in the legiflature, in the field, in the pulpit, at the bar, or in any public affembly, but at the fire-fide.

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SELF-TORMENTING.

1. "DON'T meddle with that gun, Billy," faid a careful mother; "if it fhould go off, it would kill you." "It is not charged, mother," fays Will. "Well! but may be," fays the good old woman, "it will go off, even if it is n't charged." But there is no lock on it ma'am." "O dear Billy, I am afraid the hollow thing there, the barrel, I think you call it, will fhoot, if there is no lock."

2. Don't laugh at the old lady. Two thirds of our fears and apprehenfions of the evils and mifchiefs of this life, are just as well grounded, as hers were in this cafe.

3. There are many unavoidable evils in life, which it becomes us as men and as chriftians, to bear with fortitude; and there is a certain period affigned to us all, and yet dreaded by most of us, wherein we must conflict with death and finally lofe connection with all things beneath the fun. Theft things are beyond our utmost power to refift, or fegacity to evade.

4. It is our wifeft part, therefore, to prepare to encounter them in fuch a manner as fhall do honor to our profeffion, and manifeft a perfect conformity to that directory on which our profeffion ftands. But why need we anticipate unavoidable evils, and "feel a thousand deaths in fearing one?"

5. Why need a woman be everlaftingly burying her chil dren, in her imagination, and fpend her whole tinie in a fancied course of bereavment, because they are mortal, and muft die fometine or other? A divine teacher fays, "fufficient for the day is the evil thereof;" but we put new and unnecef. fary gall in all the bitter cups we have to drink in life, by artfully mixing, fipping, and fmelling beforehand; Pe the fqueamish patient, who, by viewing and thinking of his phyf ic, brings a great r distress and burden on his ftomach, before he takes it, than the phyfic itself could ever have done.

6. I would have people be more careful of fire arms tha they are: But I do't take a gun barrel, unconnected with powder and lock, to be more dangerous than a broom stick.

7. Sergeant Tremble and his wife, during the time of general health, feel as eafy and secure as if their children were immortal. Now and then a neighbor drops off with a confumption, or an apoplexy; but that makes no impreffion, as all their children are plump and hearty.

8. If there are no cancers, dyfenteries, fmall pox, bladders In the throat, and fuch like things to be heard of, they almost bid defiance to death; but the moment information was given that a child fix miles off, had the throat diftemper, all comfort bade adieu to the house; and the mifery then endured from dreadful apprehenfions, left the disease fhould enter the family, is unfpeakable.

9. The old fergeant thought that when the wind blew from that quarter, he could fmell the infection, and therefore ordered the children to keep houfe, and drink wormwood and rum, as a prefervative against contagion. As for Mrs. Tremble, her mind was in a state of never ceafing agitation at that time: A fpecimen of the common fituation of the family is as follows:

10. Sufy, your eyes look heavy, you don't feel a fore throat, do you? Hufband, I heard Tommy cough in the bed room juft now. I'm afraid the diftemper is beginning in his vitals, let us get up and light a candle. You don't begin to feel any fore on your tongue or your mouth, do you, my dear little chicken! It feems to me Molly did not eat her breakfast with fo good a stomach this morning as the ufed to do. I'm in diftrefs for fear fhe has got the distemper coming on.

11. The house was one day a perfect Bedlam; for having heard that rue and rum was an excellent guard in their present danger, the good lady difpenfed the catholicon fo liberally among her children one morning, that not a foul of them could eat all day; Tom vomited heartily; Sue looked as red as fire, and Molly as pale as death.

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12. O! what terrors, and heart akings, till the force of the medicine was over! To be fhort, the child that had the distemper died ; and no other child was heard of, in thofe parts, to have it; fo that tranquility and fecurity we ed to Mr. Tremble's family, and their children re merly, proof against mortality. 13. Mrs. Forefight keeps her min diftrefs and uneafinefs, from a pr The is forewarned of by dream the way, is affronting behr a greater reflection upo fome well meaning r 14. The gor

u in a continual state of lpect of awful disasters that ,figns and omens. This, by avior to common fenfe, and implies fome of the divine perfections, than People are aware of. d woman look'd exceedingly melancholy at

breakfast, one day last week, and appeared to have lost her appetite. After fome inquiry into the caufe of fo mournful a vifage, we were given to understand that the forefaw the death of fome one in the family; having had warning in the night by a certain noife that he never knew fail; and then the went on to tell how fuch a thing happened, before the death of her father, and mother, and filter, &c.

15. I endeavored to argue her out of this whimfical, gloomy ftate of mind, but in vain; She infifted upon it, that though the noise lasted scarce a minute, it began like the dying thrick of an infant, and went on like the tumbling clods upon a coffin, and ended in the ringing of the bell.

16. The poor woman wept bitterly for the lofs of the child that was to die; however, the found afterwards occafion for uneafinefs on another account. The cat unluckily shut up in the buttery, and diffatisfied with fo long confinement, gave forth that dying fhriek, which first produced the good woman's confternation; and then by fome fudden effort to get out at a grate at the upper part of the room, overfet a large pewter platter; the platter in its way overfet a large wooden bowl full of milk; and both together in their way knook'd down a white itone dish of falmon, which came with them into a great brass kettle that food upon the floor.

17. The noise of the cat might easily be taken for that of a child, and the found of a falmon upon a board, for that of a clod; and any mortal may be excused for thinking that a pewter platter and a great earthen difh broken in fifty pieces, both tumbling into a brafs kettle, found like a bell.

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HISTORY OF COLUMBUS.

EVERY circumftance relating to the difcovery and fet tlement of America, is an interefting object of enquiry. Yet it is prefumed, from the present state of literature in this coun try, that many perfons are but flightly acquainted with the character of that man, whofe extraordinary genius led him to the difcovery of the continent, and whofe fingular fufferings ought to excite the indignation of the world.

2. Chriftopher Columbus was born in the Republic of Ge noa, about the year 1447; at a time when the navigation of Europe was scarcely extended beyond the limits of the Medi

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