3.

It is more cumber than courtesy, to strive with a man who is leave-taking.

4.

A mild countenance doth encourage the looker-on to hope for a gentle answer.

5.

It is no good manners to be squeamish of our cunning.

Remark.

Whatever be our learning, we ought to communicate it freely. Imparting knowledge, is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.— Some people are backward in dispensing the fruits of their minds, from a churlish disposition, that hates communion of any thing; and others refuse the exhibition of their accomplishments, from a poor affectation and love of entreaty; but they are not aware that a liberal manner adorns a favour with charms, for the want of which no excellence in itself can compensate. When reluctance to oblige

arises from diffidence of power, the blush that accompanies denial, pleads so sweetly for pardon, that we hardly regret the privation of amusement, in the admiration of a modesty which gives Shakespeare's proof of excellence; The putting a strange face on its own perfection!

6.

It is better with willingness to purchase thanks, than with a discontented doing, to have the pain and not the reward.

7.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

8.

There is great difference between rudeness and plainness.

Remark.

Harsh tempers are fond of cloaking ill-natured censures, under the names of plainness and sincerity. They put themselves in the place of a man's conscience, and, without

mercy, accuse him to his face, of every error which falls within their cognizance; but, should they see a virtue, there they drop the character; and for fear of creating vanity, (considerate creatures!) pass over the discovery in silence. Such troublers of mankind ought to be hunted out of society, as a brood of porcupines, who have a quill for every object, and who are never so happy as when they find that it draws blood.

9.

Be courteous of gesture, and affable to all men, with diversity of reverence, according to the dignity of the person. There is nothing that winneth so much, with so little cost.He who endeavours to please, must appear pleased: and he who would not provoke rudeness, must not practice it.

Remark.

As the obeisance of ceremony gradually decreases by the approximation of degrees in rank, what is taken from homage may be

compensated for by suavity, the graceful politeness of the soul; and when love, that sweet leveller, equalises man with man in the bonds of friendship, each look, from either party, is honour, each smile, distinction.To persons in subordinate stations, condescension must bow, and not stoop: the dignity of human nature resents the pride that affects humility, and the hypocrisy that would impose on its understanding. There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible, as a noble mind in a low estate.

REVELLING.

GIVE yourself to be merry, but not boisterous. Let your mirth be ever void of scurrility and biting words, which many deem wit; for a wound, given by a word, is often harder to be cured than that which is given by the sword. Use moderate diet; so that after

your meat you may find your intellects fresher, and not duller; and your body more lively, and not more heavy. Seldom indulge in wine; and yet sometimes do, (but always temperately,) lest, being forced to drink on some sudden occasion, you should become inflamed: all that comes of more than this, is bad.

Remark.

Drunkenness is one of the most degrading, and, at the same time, is the most mischievous, of the sensual vices. In point of deformity, it is on a par with gluttony, which seeks enjoyment in gorging a vile appetite, and doing its utmost to extinguish that ethereal part, which alone gives man pre-eminence over brutes.

Drunkenness can have no positive pleasure; at best, its feelings are all dormant; if active, they must produce pain. How can any one of the senses find gratification, when the eyesight is rendered indistinct, the hearing confused, the very motion feeble and undetermin