OPTTNIACY.
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put the question to those who are still
strangers to ambitions wiles and infatuation
to mere spectators of the passing scenes of
worldly pomp and folly, who can contem-
plate the imposing insignia of rank and office
without being dazzlcd or blinded by their
splendour-and, ! demand, what is their
gain, even when completely successful; what
Che recompense for all their pains and tolls
and anxictes, Put into the one scale wealth,
honour, power, to whatever amount you
please; and put into the other the gray hairs
and dccrepitude of age--the evening Of
long life Of duplcty, intrigue, insincerity,
restless ambition, crafty artiiice. inconss-
tency, base compliances, cringng courtly
sycophancy, or noisy staggering professions
Of devotion to the populace--add to this obi


Gus mass of abom nation, a near view of
death, judgment, eternity, the pit OF perdi-
ton, the fire that is not quenched, and the
smoke of that torment which ascendeth up
for ever and overland, tell me, is the prize


worth the price which you must pay for it,


n Radle.-A friend and an enemy, a
blessing and a curse, serves life and takes it
away, is long and short, round and square,
smooth and uneven, strait and crooked, hard
and soft, hot and cold, most wanted when its


in the greatest plenty, accommodates itself
to all tastes, sweet and of a bad smell, stl ong
and weak, sometimes able to carry great
burdens, at others will not bear pin. For
this men make long journeys though they
have it at home, is full of reflection, has the


art to dissolve matrimony, causes famine and
plenty, has the privilege to kiss the tairest
| lady. is subservent and overbearing, death
and a medicine, fluid and solid. mountain


and valley, has a numerous offspring yet an