them miftakes madness for refolution, will furnish ample matter of useful and affecting speculation in some future Address.

To wind up the prefent. Are you, my young men, poffeffed of instinctive courage? Value not yourselves on that account: the fame may be found in an affaffin, in a drayman, in a brute. Are you capable of artificial valour? It fhows as little intrinfic merit as the other, fince it may be equally acquired by those of the most vicious difpofitions. Do you perceive in yourselves the love of renown, and the foul of enterprise, congenial to the best-born youth? Prove them by your spirited and honourable exertions in the different employments you embrace, especially by your ardour to deferve well of mankind. It is true, they have been often perverted to the vileft and moft pernicious purposes: but certainly they may be made the ground-work of a worthy and useful character. Fail not, I beseech you, to build upon them an active

benevolence, an unwearied perfeverance,
the "contumacious probity" of the Athe-
Rian Sage admired by Cicero, the pious in-
trepidity of the Son of Jeffe recorded in
Scripture, the fingular uprightness of " the
"Man of Uz" applauded by God himself.
"Be this your brazen bulwark of defence,
"Still to preferve your confcious innocence.

And do not forget to join the generosity
of felf-denial, and the vigour of temper-
ance, two qualities that wonderfully in-
vigorate and ennoble the mind. Be fure
alfo to add the fuperiority that springs
from a contempt of little paffions, paltry
confpiracies, and pitiful concealments;
the holy boldness inspired by a decifive
and invariable preference of a future life
to the prefent; and, in fine, the animated
exercise of rational devotion daily ascend-
ing to its native skies, and gradually car-
rying you up thither. What will be the
iffue of all?.
-Mark it well: we pro-
claim it aloud: it is the chief ambition of

the braveft spirits: it is the faireft hope and

the firmest stay of virtue, in youth, in manhood, and in age--Immortality, immortality!-When the deserters from reafon, and the heroes of a day,—when those who had not the courage to discharge their duty, and those who fought only the praise of men, fhall be configned to everlafting fhame; when the monuments of mere human refolution fhall be no more, and the annals of fecular fame shall perish in the funeral fire of Nature, you, my respected friends, you, who faithfully adhered to truth and goodness in a luxurious, vain, and unprincipled age, fhall receive from the Infallible Judge, palms of victory, and wreaths of glory, beautiful as Paradife, and undecaying through Eternity.

ADDRESS XV.

ON

THE BEAUTY

O F

HUMILITY.