A Letter from a Father to his Daughter. reconciled to thofe, who have any ways offended you. If you have done wrong or injury to any one, be facerely forry for it, and, without delay make all the reparation in your power. envy 43 wifely, and for the best purposes denied you; but be grateful" and thankful for all the good things you enjoy, and learn to be content in the fituation of lite God has placed you in. As is the greatest enemy to your inward peace, and the most sorroding vice, that can enter into the heart of woman; never cherifli, or fuffer it to gain admision in your breaft; it will, in time, believe me, destroy every virtuous fentiment, and you will foon be convinced of its pernicious tendency. In short, the best method (lays Socrates, the Heathen philofopher, to his pupil Alcibiades) that you can make use of to draw down bleffings from heaven upon yourfelf, and to render your prayers acceptable, will be to live in a con.fal, or fteals into the heart more imftant and habitual practice of your duty towards the gods and towards Of all the weakneffes the younger part of your fex are most prone to, are pride and affectation and there are none fearce which render you more contemptible in the eyes of the thinking and fenfible part of mankind; therefore, as you value the efleem of your friends, crush them in the bud. The ingenious Mr. Additon fays, "Pride in a woman deftroys all fymmetry and grace; and affectation is a more terrible enemy to a fine face than the final pex." And yet there is no paflion to univer perceptibly than pride; at the fame time, there is not a fingie view of human nature, under its prefent condition, which is not fufficient to extinguish in us all the fecret feeds of pride. As nothing appears more odious and difgufting than pride and affre tation; to nothing is more amiable in your fex than humility, it adds a beauty to every feature, and a luftre to all your actions. I now proceed to the duties you owe to yourself: you fhould feriously conder the end for which you were created by God, in order to direct your thoughts, words, and actions to lim, and to your own eternal welfare. You fhould confider this world only as a journey to the next, where you must inevitably be happy or miferable, agrecable to the part Purfue no courfe of life, nor unyou have acted in this life; this dertake any thing, which has not world is a ftate of probation only, and virtue or religion for its object; Dever intended, by our wife Creator ler not a love of the world, or a as a constant and lafting fcene of joy habit of fashionable allurements, and happiness; therefore the fhort, hurry you into fcenes of dilipation: and uncertain duration of this life, they are, at beft but a mifapplication. fhould ftimulate you to work out of time, and too often lay a young your falvation and make your calling woman open to fuch fnares and temp and election. Amacis, in his epille tations, as her weaknels and inexto Polycartes, fays very juftly, we perience, are little able to encounter cannot expect in this world an unwith: and, take my word for it, relimixed happiness, without being fie-gion and virtue is not only the fure quently tempered with troubles and road to happiness, but the infallible difafters. fpecifics against the fears of death, as well as an ant dote against all the croffes and difappointments of human life. Never fuffer your mind to be diffatisfied from the want of thofe good things which Providence has G2 Το To conclude, devote the prime of I was the best remedy for his c : your youth, when all your faculties are in the full bloom, to heaven and your Maker's fervice: it will bring down bleflings on your head, and be a facrifice more acceptable in the fight of God, than all the burnt offerings of thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of oil for reft affured in this one divine truth, That the reward of the virtuous, is with the Lord, and the care of them is with the Most High; therefore fall they receive, a glorious kingdom, and a beautiful crown, from the Lord's hand; for with his right hand he fhall cover them, and with his arm shall he protect them. Thefe are the ardent Prayers and wishes of plaint, he talked himself to through the Park, and up C ftitution-hill, every morning be breakfast. This did not relieve h but from habit rather than hope ftill continued his perambulatio One fummer morning a handf young woman, very meanly c with a child about fix weeks old her arms, afked his charity. gave her fome pence, and asked how he came into her prefent treffed fituation. Her hiftory fhort: he had been a fervant, became partial to a footman in t fame houfe, and married him; th were both turned away; the m had no other refource but to enli he became a foldier, was fe abroad, fhe had never heard fro him fince; had been delivered of t child now at her biçaft, for who fupport and her own fhe would be W. H. till her infant was a few months olde Your affectionate father, ANECDOT E OF AN ARTIST. HEN Zink was in the when the fhould try to get fom W greatest practice he was ink, at the pillaging a village in a very bad ftate of health, and being well respected by a number of the most celebrated phyficians, had their affiftance and advice. All of them pronounced that he was in a decline, but about the method of cure they were not unanimous. Some prefcribed one drug and fome another, and one of them recommended breaft-milk. The drugs he swallowed, but the breaft-milk he did not much relish the thoughts of. Finding himself gr..w rather worfe than better, and being told that air and exercise Germany. I married her and a better wife no man ever had." With this woman he lived near he educated for the army, and twenty years. The foldier's child promised to get him a commiffion when he was twenty-one, but the boy died at fourteen. By Monfieur Zink he had two children, each of whom were well provided for, and one of them and well fituated in a Northern was a very few years fince alive, Province. PO Teaching each drear wood's pathless fcene The glories of their Virgin Queen.Nor fuch her later chiefs who try, Impell'd by foft humanity, The boift'rous wave, the rugged coaft, The burning zone, the polar frost, That climes remote, and regions yet unknown, May fhare a GEORGE's fway, and blefs his patriot throne. IV. Warm fancy, kindling with delight, O'er time's yet undiscover'd page, Vaft continents now dark with shade, She fees in verdure's robe array'd, Sees o'er each ifland's fertile steep That frequent ftuds the fouthern deep, His fleecy charge the fhepherd lead, Sees commerce Springs of guiltle's wealth The harveft wave, the vintage bleed: explore, Where frowns the weftern world on Afia's neighbouring shore. But, lo! across the blackening skies, At once the tranfient landscape flies, Awful, as when her angry tide Awful, as when th' avenging blow Sufpending o'er a proftrate foe, She fnatch'd, in vict'ry's moment Iberia's finking fons from Calpe's glowprompt to fave, ing wave. VI. Ere yet the tempeft's mingled found Burfi dreadful o'er the nations round, What The only prop of thy declining life, Since Heaven depriv'd thee of thy faith ful wife; Alas! who now fhall footh thy last fac years, And fmooth thy paffage through this vale of tears. A tender mother lies beneath this ftone, Three helpless orphans now her loss bemoan; O facred forrow not to be effaced, 'Tis he alone that can thy wants fupply; But oh my heart, your thoughts now inward turn, Thou too a friend rever'd and lov'd doft mourn; O facred fpot, where now I turn my fail; If you marry for riches you'll certainly fmart, [heart. And find, at the laft, a diffatisfy'd Let the youth of your choice with good fenfe be endu❜d, To behave with decorum, and fhun what is rude; Let native good-humour enliven his foul, And a fenfe of religion all evils controul. Let his drefs be quite decent, inclin'd to the mode, For things that are odd I wou'd have him explode; Pray carefully fhun all the frenchified beaux, With bats that will scarcely reach over their nofe. 47 I fcorn from my foul ev'ry finical fop, Bedizen'd with trinkets from bottom to top; No blifs you'll receive from fuch whimfical elves, Their time is employ'd in admiring themiclves! Be fure you the gamefler and drunkard avoid, [cloy'd; Such fots of your company foon will be And leave you at home, your hard lot to bewail, For fhuffling of cards, and for drinking of ale. The flatt'rer deteft, he is not to be borne, Keep out of the way, and his perfidy fcorn; For fhou'd you attend, he perhaps may allure, [fure And then, O Myrtilla, deftruction is Let the man of your choice be confift ent and clear, Induftrious and healthy-a lover fincere. A friend unto learning, intrepid and bold, Quite generous and free, and no flave Whene'er fuch a youth, as I've menunto gold. tion'd, you find, So graceful in perfon, accomplished in mind; Look down with an eye of regard on the fwain, [pain, Afford him a mile, and difpel all his With him if to live it fhould e'er be [cot; your lot, You're fure to be blefs'd in a palace or O take the dear man, without fear, to your arms, And make him unspeakably bleft with your charms. But parents, perhaps, with their maxims and rules, May rafhly pronounce you a couple of fools! If he is not poffefs'd of a splendid eftate, To mimic the empty parade of the great. I counsel you not to contemn their advice, But do not be forc'd from the man of your choice; What tho' he be poor, yet it must be confefs'd, [be blefs'd! That you with affection and health may It furely is beft, for avoiding all ftrife, That children fhou'd chufe their own partners for life; For |