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felves that they have not time to begin any thing then, and that it will do as well another time. This is a most unfortunate difpofition, and the greatest obftruction to both knowledge and bufinefs. At your age, you have no right nor claim to lazinefs. You are but just lifted in the world, and must be active, diligent, indefatigable. If ever you propofe commanding with dignity, you must ferve up to it with diligence. Never put off till to-morrow what you can

do to-day.

Difpatch is the foul of bufinefs; and nothing con tributes more to dispatch, than method. Lay down a method for every thing, and stick to it inviolably, as far as unexpected incidents may allow. Fix one certain hour and day in the week for your accompts, and keep them together in their proper order; by which means they will require very little time, and you can never be much cheated. Whatever letters and papers you keep, docket and tie them up in their respective claffes, fo that you may inftantly have recourfe to any one. Lay down a method alfo for your reading, for which you allot a certain share of your mornings; let it be in a confiftent and confecutive courfe, not in that defultory and immethodical manner, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects. Keep a useful and short common-place book of what you read, to help your memory only, and not for pe

dantic

dantic quotations. Never read history without having maps, and a chronological book, or tables lying by you, and conftantly recurred to; without which, hiftory is only a confufed heap of facts. One method more I recommend to you, by which I have found great benefit, even in the most diffipated part of my life; that is, to rife early, and at the fame hour every morning, how late foever you may have fat up the night before.

You will fay, it may be, as many young people would, that all this order and method is very troublefome, only fit for dull people, and a disagreeable reftraint upon the noble spirit and fire of youth. I deny it; and affert, on the contrary, that it will procure you, both more time and more tafte for your pleasures; and, fo far from being troublesome to you, that, after you have pursued it a month, it would be troublesome to you to lay it afide.

To

То THE S E A*.

AIL! thou inexhauftible fource of wonder

and contemplation !-Hail! thou multitudinous ocean! whofe waves chafe one another down like the generations of men, and after a momentary space are immerged for ever in oblivion :-Thy fluctuating waters wash the varied fhores of the world, and while they disjoin nations, whom a nearer connection would involve in eternal war, they circulate their arts, and their labours, and give health and plenty to mankind.

How glorious! how awful are the fcenes thou difplayeft! Whether we view thee when every wind is hushed,-when the morning fun filvers the level line of the horizon, or when its evening track is marked with flaming gold, and thy unrippled bofom reflects the radiance of the overarching Heavens !-Or whether we behold thee in thy terrors !-when the black tempeft sweeps thy fwelling billows, and the boiling furge mixes with the clouds,-when death rides the ftorm,-and humanity drops a fruitlefs tear for the toiling mariner whose heart is finking with dismay!

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And

And yet, mighty deep! 'tis thy furface alone we view-Who can penetrate the fecrets of thy wide domain? What eye can vifit thy immenfe rocks and caverns, that teem with life and vegetation? Or fearch out the myriads of objects, whofe beauties lie fcattered over thy dread abyss?

The mind ftaggers with the immenfity of her own conceptions, and when the contemplates the flux and reflux of thy tides, which from the beginning of the world were never known to err, how does she shrink at the idea of that Divine Power, which originally laid thy foundations fo fure, and whofe omnipotent voice: hath fixed the limits where thy proud waves fhall be stayed!

PLEASURES

PLEASURES OF A GARDEN*.

A

GARDEN has ever had the praise and affection of the wife. What is requifite to make a wife and happy man, but reflection and peace? and both are the natural growth of a garden. Nor is a garden only a promoter of a good man's happiness, but a picture of it; and, in fome fort fhews him to himself. Its culture, order, fruitfulness, and feclufion from the world, compared to the weeds, wildness, and expofure of a common field, is no bad emblem of a good man, compared to the multitude. A garden weeds the mind; it weeds it of worldly thoughts; and sows celestial feed in their ftead. For what fee we there, but what awakens in us our gratitude to heaven? A garden to the virtuous is a paradife ftill extant; a paradise unlost. What a rich present from heaven of fweet incense to man, was wafted in that breeze? What a delightful entertainment of fight glows on yonder bed, as if in kindly showers the watry bow had fhed all its moft celcftial colours on it? Here are no objects that fire the paffions! None that do not inftruct the understanding, and better the heart, while they delight the fense; but not the fense of these men. To them the tulip has no colours:

* Young

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