The fun fhines. The ftars twinkle. Read thou. Regardeft thou? Do ye attend? A prudent woman is respected.

He is a friend worthy to be esteemed.
The tower is thirty feet high.

The river in fome places is three fathoms deep.

The rich are esteemed; the poor are accounted miferable.

Have you an inclination to fee? are you defirous to be convinced?

You expect to be invited.

He was a man of integrity.

The friend whom you loved is no more.
He acts honourably, he is a very worthy

man.

I have repeatedly pointed out your fault. Whom do you speak to? do you speak

to me?

He hath written many epistles.

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one reads with propriety.

My brother delights in learning.

The caftle is a venerable building.

There is fomething in your conduct, which reminds me of the fimplicity of ancient times.

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CHAPTER I.

Economy is no difgrace.

The temperate man's pleasures are durable.
Superftition is the fpleen of the foul.
Wealth maketh many friends.

The juft man walketh in his integrity: his children are bleffed after him.

Wrath is cruel and anger is outrageous, but who is able to stand before envy.

There are few tasks more ungrateful, than for perfons of modefty to speak their own praises.

All fear is in itself painful, and when it conduces not to fafety, is painful without ufe.

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The misfortunes which arife from the concurrence of unhappy incidents, should never be fuffered to difturb us before they happen.

Mankind must neceffarily be diverfified by various taftes, fince life affords and requires fuch multiplicity of employments.

Any man may be guilty of an oversight; but to persist in error, is the fure characteriftic of a fool.

However fhort the duration of life, 'tis abundantly long if spent agreeably to the dictates of virtue and honour: but fhould it be fpun out longer, there is no more reafon. to be grieved on that account, than the husbandmen have, when, after the fweet feafon of the fpring is past, they fee the fummer and autumn advance.

CHAPTER II.

To defire what is wrong is of itself no fmall unhappiness; nor is it fo great a misfortune not to obtain our wishes, as to wish to obtain what is improper.

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The man to whom nature has dealt but a moderate fhare of abilities, may become eminent by application and perfeverance.

Obftinacy connected with stupidity, is an infurmountable obftruction in the path of learning and knowledge.

Young years are tender and eafily wrought upon, apt to be moulded into any fashions; they are like moift and foft clay, which is pliable to any form; but foon grows hard. and then nothing is to be made of it: it is a very difficult thing to make impreffions upon age, and to deface the evil which hath been deeply imprinted upon young and tender minds. When good inftruction hath been neglected at first, a conceited ignorance doth commonly take poffeffion and obftruct all the paffages through which knowledge and wisdom fhould enter into us

Admonish thy friend, it may be, he hath not done it; and if he have, that he do it

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