however, was more gentle; because both habit and reason, and, if I mistake not, my letters rendered you more mild and patient. Now your third year ought to admit of such amendment, as that no person may be able to utter the slightest reproach. And on this subject I address you in the terms neither of exhortation nor precept, but of brotherly entreaty, that you employ your whole abilities, care, and concern, in accumulating praise from all quarters.* If our situation were one of mediocrity as to public conversation and discourse, nothing pre-eminent would be required of you, nothing beyond the ordinary conduct of others. But by reason of the splendour and magnitude of the concerns in which we are engaged, unless we derive the highest glory from these functions, we seem scarcely capable of avoiding the deepest condemnation. We are so situated, that while all good men are our friends, they also require and expect from us, all application and virtue; in the meanwhile, all the reprobate part of mankind, because with them we have declared eternal war, seem to be satisfied with the slightest ground for condemning us. Wherefore, since such a theatre as Asia has been assigned you for the display of your virtues, a theatre most celebrated by fame, most ample in extent, most distinguished by discernment, but naturally so noisy that its expressions and intimations reach even to Rome, I pray you to strive and labour to appear, not only adequate to these conditions, but by your merits to have surpassed them all; and as fortune has fixed my share of the public administration in Rome, and yours in Asia, while I yield to none in my conduct, do you excel all in yours. At the same time reflect, that we are not now labouring for a glory that is in expectation and reversion; but we are "Make not the consequence of virtue the ends thereof. Be not beneficent for a name or cymbal of applause, nor exact and just in commerce for the advantages of trust and credit, which attend the reputation of true and punctual dealing. For these rewards, though unsought for, plain virtue will bring with her. To have other objects in good actions sours laudable performances, which must have deeper roots, motives and instigations to give them the stamp of virtues."-Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals, Book i. chap. 10. struggling for what has been attained, a glory that we are not so much to covet as to preserve. Indeed, had I any interest that is distinct from yours, I could desire nothing more than that situation of life which has actually been assigned to me; but as the case is, that unless all your words and actions are answerable to my conduct here, I shall think that I have gained nothing by all those mighty toils and dangers in all which you have been a sharer. Now if you were my chief fellow labourer in working my way to this splendid reputation, you ought to labour beyond others that I may maintain it. You are not to regard the opinion and the judgment of those who are now living, but also of those who shall hereafter exist, whose verdict will be the more just as it will be free from detraction and malevolence. In the next place, you are to reflect, that you are not seeking glory for yourself alone; and, if you were, you would not be indifferent about it, especially as you have thought proper to consecrate the memory of your name by the noblest memorials, but you are to share it with me, and it is to descend to our posterity. You are therefore to beware, lest if you should be careless you should seem not only to have neglected your own interests, but to have acted grudgingly even to your descendants. And these things are said, not that my words may seem to have aroused you when slumbering, but that they may encourage you in your career; for you will continually act as you have acted, so that all may praise your equity, your moderation, your inflexibility, and your integrity. But through my excessive affection for you, I am possessed with an insatiable passion for your glory. In the meanwhile I am of opinion, that as you must be now as well acquainted with Asia as any man is with his own house ;* and as so great experience has been added to your great wisdom, there is nothing that pertains to glory of which you are not fully sensible, and which does not daily occur to your mind, without the exhortation of any. But I who, when I read This would seem to have been a proverbial simile. Juvenal has the same: "Nota magis nulli domus est sua, quam mihi lucus Martis," se. Sat. 1. v. 7. your letters, think I hear you, and when I write to you think I converse with you, am more delighted with your letters the longer they are, and for the same reason I myself also am more prolix in writing. In conclusion I exhort and entreat you, that just as good poets and skilful actors are wont to do, so you will redouble your attention at this the latter part and conclusion of your business and office; that this last year of your government, like the last act of a play, may appear the most elaborate and perfect. This you will most easily do, if you think that I, whom individually you have endeavoured to please more than all the world besides, am ever present with you, and take an interest in all that you do or say. Lastly, I entreat you, as you value my welfare, and that of all your friends, that you will most carefully attend to your health. ACADEMICS little differing from the Actors choose the parts fittest for Addison, Joseph, quoted, 142, 254, 91. Advantages tempt men to be rogues, 131. Advice of friends to be asked in pro- Ediles, who, and their magnificence, Affability wins people's love, 95. Africanus, his saying that men grown &c., 115; Afric. the younger razes 156. Agreement between the several orders rious pleasures described, 240, &c. Alexander Pheræus the Tyrant, 86. Anger against adversaries to be avoid- Antoninus quoted, 13. Aquillius's Formulæ, 138. Aristotle, neglected eloquence, 2; his Armies of little use abroad, without Athens, a famous university, 1, 116. Avarice, one great cause of injustice, BACON, LORD, quoted, 113, 174, 188, Buyers should not use arts to bate CASAR, brother of Catulus, a facetious Cæsar broke through the most sacred Callicratidas, too careful of his own Bardy is the Illyrian, 91. Beauty of two sorts, 63; how to be Bentham, Jeremy, quoted, 5. Bounty; see Liberality. Boys not allowed all sorts of plays, 53. Bragging very unbecoming, 67. Brutus deposed Collatinus, 131; Callipho and Dinomachus join pleu- Cato, father to Uticensis, his deter- Cato Uticensis's genius, 56; too head- 65. Chiding sometimes necessary, 66; writing, 1; assumes to himself the |