the Lord would enable us to make a good ufe of it. "Whate'er can good or ill befall, "Faithful partner she of all,” WESLEY'S Meliffa. Here perhaps I may with great propriety quote the following lines of Gray; "Let not ambition mock their useful toil, I am Dear Friend, Yours. LETTER "A bed, board, tankard, and fix cups at beft; " Item, Wesley's Head, old books, and rotten cheft, "His bed was fcant, for his fhort wife too fhort; "His cups were earthen, all of smaller fort." OWEN'S Juvenal. "Fixt in an elbow chair at eafe, "I choose companions as I pleafe." SWIFT. "Hail, precious pages! that amufe and teach, "What heart felt blifs! What pleasure wing'd hours." DEAR FRIEND, WITH the remainder of the money we purchased houfhold goods, but as we then had not fufficient to furnish a room, we worked hard, and lived ftill harder, fo that in a fhort time we had a room furnished with our own goods; and I believe that it is not poffible for you to imagine with what pleasure and fatisfaction we looked round the T room and furveyed our property: I believe that Alexander the Great never reflected on his immenfe acquifitions with half the heartfelt enjoyment which we experienced on this capital attainment. "How happy is the man whofe early lot, After our room was furnished, as we still enjoyed a better state of health than we did at Bristol and Taunton, and had alfo more work and higher wages, we often added fomething or other to our ftock of wearing apparel. "Industrious habits in each bofom reigns, "And industry begets a love of gain. "Hence all the good from opulence that fpring." GOLDSMITH. Nor did I forget the old-book fhops: but frequently added an old book to my small collection; and I really have often purchased books with the money that should have been expended in purchafing fomething to eat; a triking inftance of which follows: At At the time we were purchafing houfhold goods, we kept ourselves very fhort of money, and on Christmas-eve we had but half-acrown left to buy a Christmas dinner. My wife defired that I would go to market, and purchase this festival dinner, and off I fet for that purpofe; but in the way I saw an oldbook shop, and I could not refift the temptation of going in; intending only to expend fixpence or ninepence out of my half-crown. But I ftumbled upon Young's Night Thoughts-forgot my dinner-down went my half-crown-and I haftened home, vaftly delighted with the acquifition. When my wife afked me where was our Chriftias dinner? I told her it was in my pocket."In your pocket (faid fhe), that is a strange place. How could you think of stuffing a joint of meat into your pocket?" I affured her that it would take no harm. But as I was in no hafte to take it out, fhe began to be more particular, and enquired what I had got, &c. On which I began to harangue on the fuperiority of intellectual pleafures over fenfual gratifications, and obferved that the brute creation creation enjoyed the latter in a much higher degree than man. And that a man, that was .not poffeffed of intellectual enjoyments, was but a two-legged brute, I was proceeding in this ftrain: "And fo, (faid fhe) instead of buying a dinner, I fuppose you have, as you have done before, been buying books with the money ??? Pray what is the value of Newton or Locke? And yet, if a man were to judge by your looks, I confeffed I had bought Young's Night Thoughts: "And I think (faid I) that I have acted wifely; for had I bought a dinner, we should have eaten it to-morrow, and the pleasure would have been foon over; but fhould we live fifty years longer, we shall have the Night Thoughts to feast upon." This was too powerful an argument to admit of any |