employed in virtue and beneficence, it is distinguished by tranquillity-it is consecrated by the tears of filial piety, of conjugal affection, and of friendship's solicitude. But when it is the last scene of a career of vice, it is imbittered by remorse, and darkened by reflections of a mispent, unprofitable, disgraceful existenceendearment seldom attends it, affection cannot ameliorate it-the retrospect of the past is black with guilt, the prospect of futurity shadowed with fear. Conscience is armed with terror, and the appalled victim of iniquity yields the tribute of nature in the horrors of convulsive agony. The time is near, when the great and the rich must leave his land and his well-built house; and of all the trees of his orchards and plantations, nothing shall attend him to his grave, but oak for his coffin, and cypress for his funeral. The regular tenor, therefore, of a virtuous and pious life, spent in the faithful discharge of all the duties of our station, will prove the best preparation for old age, for death, and for immortality. Throughout all ranks and conditions, "one generation passeth, and another generation cometh;" and this great inn is by turns evacuated and replenished by troops of succeeding pilgrims. O vain and inconstant world! O fleeting and transient life! When will the sons of men learn to think of thee as they ought? when will they learn humanity from the afflictions of their brethren, or wisdom and moderation from the sense of their own fugitive state? How swiftly pass our years! See the fair summer now is past! The foliage late that clad the trees, Stript by the equinoctial blast, Falls like the dewdrops in the breeze! Cold winter hastens on! Fair nature feels his grasp; And sighs their glory past! So life, thy summer soon will end, But summer will return, In all her beauties dress'd! Then may we daily seek A mansion in the skies, There an eternal spring shall bloom. THE END. LONDON, PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H, FISHER, Canaries, on the breed of, 416 Cardan, his vindication of Nero, 394 Carolan, the Irish bard, his talents, 408 Character, the difficulty of appreciating, Charity and benevolence described and re- Credulity and scepticism, equally to be Cymon and Iphigenia, the story of, 73 D Davenant, Sir Wm. his theatrical represen- De Roches and De Gournai, virgins, Death, a physical and moral necessity, Death, on the preparation for, ib. Charity and benevolence, Sir Thos. Browne, Death-bed, a school of wisdom, 602 Chase, the, its pleasures, 276 Debauchee, his happiness analyzed, 512 Chesterfield, Lord, on the employment of Diligence, a powerful workman, 624 time, 215 Childhood, its pleasures the purest, 11 Children, their unsophisticated nature, 121 Children, excessive severity towards them China, Emperor of, his singular custom, 283 Christianity, an incentive to cheerfulness, Cimarosa, his method of composing, 398 Comedies, modern, bad effects of, 93 Complaining, Peter Pindar's lines on, 714 Connection, the social, a solace to the un- Conscience, peace of, a great blessing, 511 Corynas, do. ib. Cossacks, the effect of music on, 408 Country, the, its charms, 257 Country a cure for melancholy, 286 Creative wisdom, the numberless marks Diotima and Aspasia, lecturers on philo- Diseases, how few fatal, dispensary report, Diseases, the effect of general laws, 643 Divine goodness, its manifestations, 480 Dreams, Mr. Locke's and Dr. Hartley's Finery, excessive, caution against, 68 Fool, the, is an ornament to the world, 305 Flowers, the pride and glory of the crea- Franklin, Dr. his rules of conduct, 210 Friends and associations on the judicious Friendship, truly so called, 179 Friendship, advice in the formation of, 180 Gaiety, the balm of life, 723 Garden, a, first planted by the Almighty, 289 Garden, its pleasures open to every condi. Garden, Abbe de Lille's description of a, Garden, Spenser and Hughes's do., 300 Gluck, the composer, his singular whim, 398 God, his works fraught with beauty, 345 God is Love, 491 God, the little solemnity with which his God, irreverent mention of, accounted for God, Sir Isaac Newton's remarks on the Goffe, Alexander, the woman actor, 254 Good, that it preponderates over evil, 635 should do so, proved, 636 Goodness, the surest foundation of conju- H Happiness not dependent upon place, 588; Happiness illustrated by an anecdote of Happiness commented upon by Dr. John- Happiness, Paley's celebrated treatise on Happiness will flourish any where, 629 Happiness not to be ensured by wealth, splendid clothes, nor sumptuous pa- Happiness does not attend the dignified Happiness of the world, asserted and ex- Hearing, pleasures derived from the sense Hector and Andromache, the parting of, 125 Hints on the sources of Happiness," ex- tracts from, 18 Hipalia, of Alexandria, a philosopher, 40 History eradicates illiberal prejudices, 337 Holy Scripture, the test of truth, 476 Honour, who now-a-days are men of, 740 Honour, true, not the prerogative of any Hope, a continued inmate of the human |