Thou as a gallant | bark, from Albion's coast 17791

(The storms all | weather'd and the ocean cross'd) |

Shoots into port at some well | haven'd | isle, ˇ| Where spices | breathe, | and | brighter | seasons smile, 771

There sits qui- | escent on the | floods, | that | show 1

Her beauteous | form re- | flected | clear be-low, 191

While airs im- pregnated with incense play

A-round her | fanning | light her | streamers gay ;)

So thou, (with sails

hast reach'd the | shore,

how swift!)

|

Where tempests | never beat nor billows |

roar, ។ | ។ ។ |

And thy loved | consort on the dangerous | tide 1

Of life, long since has anchor'd by thy | side. 177771

But me, scarce | hoping to at- | tain that rest, Always from port with- | held,

19771

always dis- tress'd

Me howling | blasts | drive devious, tempest |

toss'd,

Sails ripp'd

seams opening wide and

compass lost,

11 |
And day by day some current's |
thwarting force |

Sets me more distant from a prosperous |

That thought is | joy, ar- | rive what | may to | me, 1791

My boast is not, that I de- | duce my | birth || From | loins en- | throned and rulers of the | | earth;

1 But | higher | far | my | proud pre- | tensions | rise, The | son of skies. ។ | ។ ។ | ។។ |

parents | pass'd into the |

And now | fare- | well. || Time | unrevoked and has | run |

His wonted course, yet | what I | wish'd | is done. |

By contem- | plation's | help, not sought in vain,

I seem to have lived my | childhood | o'er a- |

gain;

To have re-newed the joys that once were |

mine,

With-out the | sin of | violating | thine; 11 And while the | wings of fancy | still are | free,

And I can | view this | mimic | show of | thee,

Time has but half

succeeded in his | theft || Thyself re- | moved thy | power to soothe me left. 191991

491919 If the show of any thing | be good I am sure the re- | ality

ter:

for | why does | any man

ble, or seem to be ❘ that which he is not,

be- | cause

is | betdis-sem

but

to have the quali

he thinks it | good ties he pre-tends to? || Now the | best | for a man to seem to be any thing, | is to what he would | seem to be:

re-ality,

be- | sides,

way |

be in

it is | often as | troublesome | to sup- |

port the pre-tence of a good quality,
it; and if a ❘ man | have it not, it is
he will be dis- covered to | want it ; ||
all his labor to seem to have it, is lost.

as to have most likely | and | then,|

painting, |

There is something | un- | natural in which a skilful | eye | will | easily dis- | cern |

from native | beauty and com- | plexion.

Therefore if | any man | think it con- | venient to

seem | good, let him | be so in- | deed

and

then his goodness will ap- | pear to every one's | satisfaction. |11| Par- | ticularly, | 11 as to the affairs of | this world, in- tegrity many advantages | over | all the arti- ficial

of dissimulation and de- ceit.

It is much the plainer and easier, I

hath |

modes

much

the safer, and | more se- | cure | way of dealing in the world; it has less of trouble and

difficulty, of en- | tanglement

of danger and | hazard

The arts of de- | ceit and cunning con- tinually | grow | weaker, | and | less | serviceable

in it.

and per- | plexity, | 1717

to |

by con

firming his repu- | tation,

and en- |

couraging

to re

which

more and longer | any man | practiseth it, the

greater service it does him;

pose the greatest | confidence | in him:

is an un- | speakable ad- | vantage in business, and the af- | fairs of | life. 1991

But insincerity is very | troublesome to manage. A hypocrite hath so | many things to attend to, as | make his | life a very per- | plexed and | intricate | thing. | 11/1911A | liar | hath | need of a | good | memory, lest he | contra- dictat one time what he | said at an- | other: || but | truth | is always con- | sistent, |

help it out it is

lie

and | needs | nothing to

always | near at | hand, | | | and sits upon our lips; where- | as a | is troublesome, and | needs a | great | many more to | make it | good. |17|11| In a word, whatso- | ever con- | venience | may to | be in | falsehood

be thought lation, it is

venience of it

soon | over:

is perpetual;

it brings a man | under an | ever- | lasting | jealousy and suspicion; so that he is not be- | lieved when he speaks the

truth; || nor

trusted

when perhaps, he means honestly. |19|19| When a man hath | once | forfeited the repu- | tation of his in- | tegrity, |11

nothing will then | serve his | turn : || neither | truth | nor | falsehood.

Indeed, if a man were | only to | deal in

the world

have occasion

ventured it
he be to con-

and should never

for a day,

to con

verse more with man

kind, it were then |no| great | matter | ▼ (as | far as respects the af- | fairs of | this | world,) | ˇ if he spent his repu- | tation | all at once; or at | one | throw. |11|1 1| But if tinue in the world, and would have the ad- | vantage of | repu- | tation | whilst he is in it, | let him | make | use of | truth and sin- | cerity in all his words and actions;

for nothing but this will hold out

19

to the

end. 1997 | All | other | arts may | fail;| and in- | tegrity

but | truth

through, and | bear him out

will | carry a | man

to the last. | 1

91771

HYDER ALI.

Extract from a speech of Mr. Burke.

When at length | Hyder | Ali | found,

that he

had to do with men who | either would | sign |no

no signature

could | bind; | and | who were the

de-termined enemies of human | intercourse