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thofe high-fpirited people, who felt it fo ftrong in themselves, were carried to the extravagance of erecting temples, and paying divine honours to their heroes and common benefactors; it will ftill be admitted that the practice must have been marvellously animating. The Grecian Games to which St. Paul fo frequently alludes St. Paul had too large a mind, and too just a tafte, not to avail himself freely of every argument and metaphor that could enforce the precepts of the religion he preached those celebrated games, where fuperior merit in almost every kind was recompenfed with proportionate renown, and to which the concourfe was immenfe, would, you may believe, not leffen, in the breaft of wondering and ambitious youth, the love of welldeferved fame.

It must be owned, that in the Lacedemonian Republic the forms of education, and indeed the whole fpirit of the laws,

tended to suppress some of the finest, and almost all the gentleft feelings of human nature, as well as violated several moral obligations which ought never on any pretence to be infringed. But at the same time let it be confeffed, that they were well calculated to breed a temperate and hardy, a modest yet enterprising, an obedient yet determined race of warriors, citizens, and patriots. Nor was the idea of public zeal, as fwallowing up all the selfish paffions, ever elevated to fo ftupendous a height as among the Spartans. Of their young men it is recorded, that when they walked the ftreets, you might as foon have turned the eyes of a marble ftatue upon you as theirs; fuch was their fobriety of mind, and modefty of demeanour. But then observe, this was accompanied with a courage fo intenfely daring, that in battle an enemy was not able to look them in the face; neither did they know what it was to be afraid of dying for their country.-Who can forbear to contraft them with those

pert coxcombs and effeminate foplings that one meets in almost every street of London and. Weftminfter?

When you fee a girl, who has not only been flattered for the natural advantages of her appearance, but early initiated in all. the myfteries of drefs, and frequently told what additional attractions she derives from certain modifh embellishments-when you fee her looking at herself with an air. of triumph, on account of her gay attire and glittering ornaments, you cannot ap prove of fuch behaviour even in her: it. feems to betray fome want of that propriety and modesty which peculiarly become the female character. A compofed and diffident deportment would affect you. in quite another manner. Yet you are willing to make allowance on the score of her sex, as well as of her age and fituation. But when you witnefs the fantastic airs of a creature who calls himself a Man, decked out in. the extreme of the fashion,

ftrutting along with a vifible delight in his own finical perfon, and with a vacant yet confequential face feeming to challenge admiration from every spectator, you are then filled with a degree of contempt which it is not eafy to exprefs. Not but this filly vanity may be found, fometimes, where there is much good-nature, fpirit, and honour. When that is the cafe, it is only the more to be regretted, appearing particularly ungraceful in fuch company. From perfons of sense and virtue, we commonly expect a fuperiority to those follies; and where fuch qualities are eminently poffeffed, they will beget a generous difdain of this degrading foftnefs. "While

the man of body," fays the incomparable Richardfon, "takes the greatest care "to fet out and adorn the part for which "he thinks himself moft valuable, the man "of mind will beftow moft pains in im

proving that mind." I would not, my auditors, be understood to inculcate a total difregard for every thing connected with

fashionable apparel. A young gentleman, it has been justly remarked, should neither be the first, nor the laft, in the mode. To go to its utmost height, is not manly; and to remain in its lowest form, is not neceffary. Singularities of various kinds are often united with an excellent underftanding, and an excellent heart: but to affect them can never be right.

A noted writer of Advice to a Son, fays on this fubject, "Wear your clothes neat, "exceeding rather than coming fhort of "others of like fortune; a charge borne "out by acceptance wherever you come: "therefore fpare all other ways, rather

than prove deficient in this." Had he ftopped at the first part of the fentence, we fhould not have found any fault. Neatnefs must always be defirable, fo long as it is not the effect of laborious or minute attention but we can see no reason for what he has added. The laft claufe contains a wretched fentiment. If you except parti

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