loose all presence of mind, and make the evil greater than it really is, you, more prudent and reflecting, will endeavour to lessen a misfortune which you can not wholly avoid. You will also be more attentive to the future, that you may secure to yourself happiness in the evening of your days. If you have children, remember that their treatment of you in your old age, will correspond with the instructions you have given them in their youth. If you are unjust and cruel with them, the less obedience and reverence you must expect in return. Treat your friends with kindness, and if you should be in need of their assistance, they will the more cheerfully grant it to you. Conduct yourself towards your neighbors and fellow-citizens generally, as will be most likely to insure their friendship and good will. If you should expect from them in your old age something more than cold civility, then exercise benevolence and complaisancy. Do not quarrel about trifles, nor make yourself ridiculous by sneers, reproaches, or vain-boasting-nor hateful by indelicacy, obstinacy or malicious remarks. Ungrateful men may forget the kindness which you have shown them, particularly if their memory be not enlivened by frequent repetitions; but they are cer tain not to overlook any injury you may have done them. Wrongs of every kind are written in the memory, as upon tablets of stone, never to be effaced.

The aged man may survive many or all of his friends and acquaintances. A new generation will spring up around him. Without obtaining their friendship, he remains lonely and forsaken. This he can only accomplish

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If you have collected great wealth, do not think that that alone will purchase you contentment. Perhaps your heirs, in consequence of your riches, are impatient for your death, in order that they may share your property.

When you have leisure, neglect not the treasures of your mind, which will make your life the more valuable. Be industrious, and give yourself often to reflection. Increase your knowledge by intercourse with intelligent people, or by the perusal of rational and instructive books. An enlightened. mind is never unoccupied-it is never without fellowship-it holds communion with the whole universe. What is gathered in youth, will be in old age a banquet. Do not complain that your business or profession gave you no time for improvement. You have had You have wasted many evenings in gay assemblies or foolish recreations. You should learn, therefore, to be a miser of your time, and devote it more espe cially to intellectual pursuits.

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Religion, to every one, is the surest and safest guide. It gives us courage to encounter and overcome the haan.

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THE FARMER.

It has been often repeated that few men are satisfied with their situation in life. They long after that of another, because they think it is preferable to their own. The soldier in his warlike profession, envies the merchant or mechanic who quietly pursue their peaceful occupations. The latter, also, think that there is no happiness so complete as that of the rich, who live in abundance and receive the homage and praise of the multitude. But even kings groan beneath the burthens which their situation imposes; they are scarcely ever relieved from the misery occasioned by the enmity, and sometimes perfidy of their subjects and advisers-misery of which the lower classes can know nothing about. The deference which is paid to them, is often a cold and heartless ceremony. The beggar, to them, wears an aspect of contentment, which they in vain seek to possess. Thus it is with nearly all men. We must learn therefore, that it is not the peculiar business we follow ; nor the extent or limitation of our possessions; nor the palace or cottage in which we reside; nor the importance with which we invest ourselves in the presence of others, that can bring to us peace or contentedness; but the proper discipline of the heart that is to influence our temporal happiness.

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occasional rambles of the latter into the country with a romantic idea of its enjoyments. ground, though laborious, is to him evidently or greatest pleasures. In some respects he is not n We find indeed, but very few who are not fond of ting a garden, or small parcel of ground-to scatt and flowers, and to watch them in their growth. bour is more conducive to health. It counteracts effects which accrue to those who are confined by tary life. The farmer, when he has finished his bour, rests cheerful and happy. The bread which earned by the sweat of his brow, is to him far than the greatest delicacy is to the palate of th His manner of life is simple-he has but few cares tract his attention. A thousand things that may the tranquility of others, he knows nothing about.

The life of the husbandman, notwithstanding, anxieties and troubles. Disease may kill his flocks favorable weather may destroy his industry for a year. His profits are comparatively small, and a lo would be trifling to many, is very serious to him. this arises many domestic sorrows. An accumula debts and taxes, which his moderate income will no ble him to discharge, become at length, almost insup ble. In short, the farmer, whose lot oftentimes a so enviable, suffers the same uneasiness, the same tions, as the prince and philosopher, or the mercha mechanic. The advantages which he may be allov possess, are not in consequence of his pursuing the ori