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unless through his own fault. VirCue, diligence, and industry, 6 join- 6 Industry,. ed with good temper and prudence, deavor assidu diligence, enhave ever been found the sarest ity. Toad to prosperity; and where men fail of attaining it, their want of success is far oftener owing to their having deviated from that road, than to their having encoun*fered insuperable7 bars in it.

11. Some, by being too artful, forfeit the reputation of probity.8 Some by being too open are accounted to fail in prudence. Others, by being fickle9 and changeable, are distrusted by all. The case commonly is, that men seek to asscribe their disappointments to any cause, rather than to their own misconduct and when they can devise no other cause, they lay them to the charge of Providence.

7 Insuperable, a not to be sur mounted. & Probity, s honesty, sincerity; veracity. 9 Fickle a changeable; un. steady.

& Misconduct. s bad manage. ment, ill behaviour.

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12. Their folly leads them into vices; their vices into misfortunes; and in their misfortunes they "murmure against Providence.". They 2 Murmur, v are doubly unjust towards their to grumble, to Creator. In their prosperity they are apt to ascribed their success to their own dilligence, rather than to his blessing; and in their adversity, they impute their distresses to his providence, not to their own misbehaviour. Whereas, the fruta assiduity, readl is the very reverse of this ress

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mutter, complain. § Ascribe, v to attribute, to as a cause; to attribute to asa

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Diligence;

ery good and every perfect gift cometh from above," and of evil & misery man is the author to himself.

13. When, from the condition of individuals, we look abroad to the public state of the world, we meet with more proofs of the truth of this assertion. We see great socioties of men torn in pieces by intestine4 dissention, 5 tumults, and civil commotions. We see mighty armies going forth, in formidable array against each other, to cover the earth with blood, and to fill the air with the cries of widows and orphans.6

14. Sad evils these are, to which this miserable world is exposed. But are these evils I beseech you, to be imputed to God? Was it he who sent forth slaughtering7 armics into the field, or who filled the peaceful cities with massacres and blood! Are these miseries any other than the bitter fruit of men's violent and disorderly passions? Are they not clearly to be traced to the ambition and vices of princes, to the quarrels of the great, and to the turbulence of the people? Let us lay them entirely out of the account, in thinking of Providence; and let us think only of the foolishness of man."

4 Intestine, a domestic; internal; inward.

5 Dissentions; s contention; strife; disagreement

6 Orphan; s a child who has lost its father or mother or both.

7 Slaughtering part slaying by the sword.

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8 Massacres; s butchery; indiscriminate destruction..

9 Turbulence,.... a tumultuous; violent.

15% Did man controul his passions, and form his conduct according to the dietates of wisdom, humanity, and virtue, the earth would no longer be desolated2 by cruelty; and human societies

would live in order, harmony, 3 and peace. In those scenes of mischief and violence which fill the world, det man behold with shame, the picture of his vices, his ignorance, and folly. Let him be humbled by the mortifying4 view of his own perverseness ;5 but let not his heart fret against the Lord."

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2 Desolated;

part laid waste

made desolate 3 Harmony; s just proportion of sounds, a.

reement.

part destroying, 4 Mortifying, vital qualities. 5 Perverseness spiteful;cross

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Columbia.

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COLUMBIA, Columbia, to glory arise; The queen of the world and the child of the skies; Thy genius commands thee; with rapture behold; While ages on ages thy splendor unfold. Thy reign is the last and the noblest of time, Most fruitful thy soil, most inviting thy clime; Let the crimes of the east ne'er encrimson thy

name,

Be freedom, and science, and virtue, thy fame.

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To conquest and slaughter let Europe aspire; Whelm nations in blood and wrap cities in fire;

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Thy heroes the rights of mankind shall defend,
And triumph pursue them and glory attend,
A world is thy realm; for a world be thy laws,
Enlarg'd as the empire, and just as thy cause;
On freedom's broad basis thy empire shall rise,
Extend with the main, and dissolve with the skies.

III

Fair science her gates to thy sons shall unbar, And the east see thy morn hide the beams of her

star;

New bards and new sages, unrivalled shall soar
To fame unextinguished when time is no moré;
To thee the last refuge of virtue resigned,
Shall fly fromall nations the best of mankind;
Here grateful to heaven, with transports shall bring
Their incense, more fragrant than odors of spring.

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Nor less shall thy fair ones to glory ascend, And gonius and beauty in harmony blend! The graces of form shall awake pure desire, And the charms of the soul ever cherish the fire; Their sweetness unmingled, their manners refined, And virtue's bright Anage instamp'd on the mind, With peace and soft rapture, shall teach life to glow And light up a smile in the aspect of woe.

Thy fleets to all regions thy power shall display, The nations admire, and the ocean obey; Each shore to thy glory its tribute unfold, And the east and the south yield their spices and

gold.

As the day-spring unbounded, thy splendor shall

flow,

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And earth's little kingdoms before thee shall bow, While the ensigns of union, in triumph unfurl'd, Hush the tumult of war and give peace to the world,

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Thus, as down a lone valley, with cedars o'er

spread,

From war's dread confusion I pensively strayed;
The gloom from the face of fair heaven retired;
The winds ceas'd to murmur; the thunders expir'd;
Perfumes, as of Eden, flow'd sweetly along,
And a voice, as of angels, enchantingly sung,
Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise,

The queen of the world and the child of the skies."

On the Immortality of the Soul.

† Walking part the act of stepping for

1. I Was yesterday walkingtalone, in one of my friends' woods and lost myself in it very agreeably, as I was running over in my mind the several arguments that establish this great point; which is the basis of morality, and the source of all the pleasing hopes and secret dation, bottom, joys, that can arise in the heart of a reasonable creature.3 I consider. ed those several proofs drawn,

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2. First, from the nature of the soul itself, and particularly its im-.. materiality; which though not ab

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3 Creature, 8 a thing created

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