The reflector. A selection of essays on various subjects of common life; From original papers. Illustrated with entertaining anecdotes.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1788 Excerpt: ...did not give more, if it were but to the ostentation of charity j for surely no buildings, equipages,. dresses, or the long &c's. of gay vanity can gain them so universal an applause as this: but few, alas! have that true taste, as to display the beauty of beneficence, or the grandeur of humility. When my heart has bled for distresses F 6 a few a few pounds could have relieved, I have envied the rich man his superfluous gold; but the neceflary etiquette of their rank, their neceflary attendants, neceflary luxuries and vices, keep them generally sufficiently necessitous; and I who censure them, to what height might not my already too warm passions have risen in the hot-bed of opulence I Wealth in my hands, instead of endeavouring to.'-'t-f. Wipe off every tear from every eye." might have become a pander to vice, a seducer of innocence. If so, thanks to that all wife and all gracious Providence which has placed me in an humbler station. N U M B E R. XIV. RESIGNATION. Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well the allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past-, And neither fear or wisti the approaches of the last. Cowley, from Martial. 'HpHAT restless disposition of mankind, ever in eager expectation of new and fancied pleasures, or in dread of distant and uncertain pains, has frequently been the subject of both moral and satirical animadversion; yet this disposition disposition was certainly necessary, to give activity to sluggish nature, to make us act our parts with spirit and propriety in this world, as well as to let us fee this is not our final place of rest, but that we must fit ourselves for a more stable and lasting habitation. How far this is the cafe with regard to worldly ceconomy, we cannot miss ...