Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: you have a turn for reflection, and a fteadinefs, which, aided by the beft of focial difpofitions, muft make your company much coveted, and your perfon loved.?Forgive me for prefuming to dictate, when I well know you have many friends much more able from knowledge and better fenfe?though I deny?a better will. You will of courfe make Men and Things your ftudy?their different genius, aims, and paf- fions: ?you will alfo note climes, buildings, foils, and products, which will be neither tedious nor unpleafant.?If you adopt the rule of writing every evening your remarks on the paft day, it will be a kind of friendly tete-ti-tete between you and yourfelf, wherein you may fometimes happily become your own Monitor;?and hereafter thofe little notes will afford you a rich fund, whenever you fhall be inclined to re-trace paft times and places. 1 fay nothing upon the fcore of Religion?for, I am clear, every good affection, every fweet fenfibility, every heart-felt joy?humanity, politenefs, charity?all, all, are ftreams from that facred fpring;?fo that to fay you are good-tempered, honeft, focial, andc. andc. is only in fact faying you live according to your Divine Master's rules, and are a chriftian. Your B friends are all well, excepting the good Mrs. C, who is at this time but fo, fo. Mifs C ftill as agreeable as whenyou knew her, if not more fo. Mr. Rum, a ufual, never fo happy, never fo gay, nor fo much in true pleafure, as when he is doing good?he enjoys the hope of your well-doing as much as any of your family. His brother John has been lucky?his abilities, addrefs, good nature, and good fenfe, have got him a furgeoncy in the battalion of guards, which is reckoned a very good thing. As to news, what we have is fo incumbered with falfehoods, 1 think it, as Bobadil ...