laughed, and so did we the jests of the rich are ever successful. Olivia too could not avoid whispering loud enough to be heard, that he had an infinite fund of humour.i After dinner I began with my usual toast, the church; for this I was thanked by the chaplain, as he said the church was the only mistress of his affec tions, Come, tell us honestly, Frank," said the squire, with his usual archness,,,suppose the church, your present mistress,"drest in lawn sleeves, on one hand, and Miss Sophia, with no lawn about her, on the other; which would you be for ?,, For both, to be sure, cried the chaplain. Right, Frank;" cried the squire;,,for may this glass suffocate me, but a fine girl is worth all the priestcraft in the creation. For what are tythes and tricks but an 'imposition, all a confounded imposture, and I can prove it.,,I wish you would, cried my son Moses,,,and I think," continued he,,,that I should be able to answer you.",, Very well, Sir," cried the squire, who immediately smoked him, and winked on the rest of the company, to prepare us for the sport,,,if you are for a cool argument upon that subject, I am ready to accept the challenge. And first, whether are you for managing it analogically, or dialogically?,,I am for managing it rationally," cried Moses, quite happy at being permitted to dispute: Good again," cries the squire,,and firstly, of the first, I hope you'll not deny that whatever is, is: if you don't grant me that, I can go no farther.“ ,,Why," returned Moses, 5,Ethink I may grant that, and make the best of it.,,I hope too," returned the other you will grant that a part is less than the whole.",,I grant that too," cried Moses, ,,it is but just and reasonable."I hope," cried the squire, you will not deny, that the two angles of a triangle are equal to two right ones.",,Nothing! can be plainer," returned tother; and looked round, with his usual importance.,, Very well, cried thei squire, speaking very quick;,,the premises being} thus settled, I proceed to observe, that the concatenation of self-existences, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produce a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.",, Hold, hold," cried the other,,,L deny that. Do you think I can thus tamely submit to such heterodox doctrines ?",,What," replied the squire, as ifin a passion,,,not submit! Answer, me one plain question: Do you think Aristotle right, when he says, that relatives are related ?«. Undoubtedly," replied the other.-,,If so then," cried the squire,,,answer me directly to what I propose Whether do you judge the analytical investigation of the first part of my enthymen deficient secundum quoad, or quoad minus, and give me your reasons;; I say, directly."― J,I protest, cried Moses,,,I don'tɛ rightly comprehend the force of you reasoning but if it be reduced to one simple proposition, I fancy it may then have an answer.O, Sir," cried the squire,,,I am your most humble servant, J find, you want me to furnish you with argument and[ intellects too. No, sir, there I protest you are too hard for nie. This effectually raised the laugh against poor Moses, who sat the only dismal figure in a groupe of merry faces; nor did he offer a single syl-, lable more during the whole entertainment. But though all this gave me no pleasure, it had a very different effect upon Olivia, who mistook it for humour, though but a mere act of the memory. She thought him therefore, a very fine gentleman; and such as consider what powerful ingredients a e good figure, fine clothes and fortune, are in that character, will easily forgive, her. Mr. Thornhill, notwithstanding his real ignorance, talked with ease, and could expatiate upon the common topics of conversation with fluency. It is not surprising then that such talents should win the affections of 4 girl, who by education was taught to value an appearance in herself, and consequently to set a valire upon it in another la 11 gi Upon his departure, we again entered into a debate upon the merits of our young landlord, As he directed his looks and conversation to Olivia, it wast no longer doubted but that she was the object that induced him to be our visitor. Nor did she seem to be much displeased at the innocent raillery of her brother and sister upon this occasion. Even Deborah herself seemed to share the glory of the day, and exulted in her daughter's victory as if it were her own. And now, my dear," cried she to me,,,I'll fairly: /own, , that it was I that instructed my girls to en courage our landlord's addresses, I had always some, ambition, and you now see that I was right; for who knows how this may end ?,,Aye, who knowsi that indeed! answered I with a groan:,,for my part I don't much like it; and I could have been, better pleased with one that was poor and honest, than this fine gentleman with his fortune and infide-, lity for,odepend ont, if he be what I suspect him,. no free-thinker shall ever have a child of mine," f Sure, father, cried Moses,,,you are too severe in this; for Heaven will never arraign him for what he thinks, but for what he does. Every man has a thousand vicious thoughts, which arise without his power to suppress. Thinking freely of religion may be involuntary with this gentleman; so that allowingi his sentiments to be wrong, yet as he is purely passive in his assent, he is anómore to be blamed for his errors, than the governor of a city without walls for the shelter he is obliged to afford an invading enemý.46muroɔ var nequ ́əisitsqas blueo has 9257 Trues my son," cried ;,,but if the governor invites the enemy there, he is justly culpable. And such is always the case with those who embrace errors The vice does not lie in assenting to the proofs they see; but in being blind to many of the proofs that offers So that though our erroneous opinions be involuntary when formed, yet as we have been wild fully corrupt, or very negligent in forming then, we deserve punishment for our vice or conteinpu for our folly.il soft roi eir spo ed et mbi 3990žu -My wife now kept up the conversation, though not the argument she observed, that several very prudent men of our acquaintance were free thinkers, and made very good husbands; and she knew some sensible girls that had skilbenough to make converts of their spouses: And who knows my dear, continued shey, what Olivia may be able to do? The girl has a great deal to say upon every subject, and to my knowledge is very well skilled in controversy.“w Why, my dear, what controversy can she have read ?" "eried I.,,It does not occur to me that I ever put such books into her hands you certainly cver-rate her merit,,Indeed, papa,"replied Olivia, ,,she does not; I have read a great deal of contro versy.have read the disputes between Thwackum and Square; the controversy between Robinson'Ĉrusoe and Friday the savage, and I am now employed in reading the controversy in Religions Courtship. „Very well,«?cried I,,,that's a good girl; 1 find you are perfectly qualified for making converts; and so go help your mother to make the gooseberry pye An Amour w which promises little good Fortune, yet The next morning we were again visited by Mr. Burchell, though I began, for certain reasons, to be displeased with the frequency of his return;} but-I could not refuse him my company and fire-side. It is true his labour more than requited his entertainment; for he wrought among us with vigour, and either in the meadow or at the hay-rick, put himself foremosti Besides, he had always something amusing to say, that lessened our toil, and was at once so out of the way, and yet so sensible, that I loved, laughed at, and pitied him, My only dislike arose from an attachment he discovered to my daughter; he would in a jesting manner call her his little mistress sand when he bought each of the girls a set of ribbands, her's was the finest. I knew not how, but he every day seemed to become more amiable, his wit to im2 prove, and his simplicity to assume the superior airs assume of wisdom. Our family dined in the field, and we sat, or rather reelined, round a temperate repast, our cloth spread upon the hay, while Mr. Burchell gave cheerfulness -to the feast. To heighten our satisfaction, two blackbirds answered each other from opposite hedges, the familiar red-breast came and picked the crumbs from our hands, and every sound seemed but the echo of tranquillity. Inever sit thus," says Sophia,,,but I think of the two lovers, so sweetly described by Mr. Gay, who were struck dead in each other's arms. There is something so pathetic in the description, that I have read it an hundred times with new rapture. “—,,Fanty opinion, “oried my son,,,the finest strokes in that description are much below those |