MCEILANEous THOUGHTS.
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The elegant biographer Of Collins, in his
affecting apology for thar unfortunate genius,
remarks, That the gifts OF imagination
bring the heaviest task on tho vigilance OF
reason; and to bear those faculties with un-
crring rectitud or invariablc propriety, re-
ouires a degree OF frnness, and OF cool at
tcmion, which does not always attend the
highest gifts OF the mind: yet dllAcult as
nature herself seems to have rendered the
task of regularity to genius, itSls the su-
preme consolation of duiness and of folly, to
point with gothic triumph to those eXcesses
which are the Overlooking o! faculties they
never enjoyed.


| What the greater part Of the world mean
| bv common sense, will be generally found
Oh closer inquiry, to be art, fraud, or sell
fishness tlIat sort of saving prudence which
makes men extremely attentive to their own
safety or protit-dligcnt i'll the pursuit OF
their own pleasures or Mtcrcsts-and per-
| fcctly at their ease as to what becomes OF
the rest of mankind. Furious where their
own property is concerned, philosophers
when nothing but the good OF others is at
stake, and perfectly resigned undcr all ca
lamities but their own.


| When we are more disposed to listen than
to complain, reconciliation is easy.
| NOtnlnp CdH ttluttt thN i'o"Ni - a.
in heart of scnsibiity; it often comedies
with the inclinations, and sometimes, pos
sesses ali the charms, without the fic',leness
of love.


The weight of an obligation is not painful,
when it is laid upon US by the hand OF the
yirtuous


TO use expressions, which pierce the
heart. or puts to the blush the person with
whom thou conyersest, is putting him to tor
ture. So, thou canst not bear to be rallied,
said one.-"With all my heart was the
reply, " provided the raillcry be not pushed
beyond its bounds"


Nothing renders reconciliation more doubt
full, than the modification one sometimes
feels at being reconciled to him who has
laid one under M obligation.


"His cens,lrc OF the work." observes a
French author respecting a certain charac-
ter, "was so ingcniously turned, that the
author, although displcascd, could have