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[Page] 52 him, with his misfortunes, his bad designs, and avaricious temper. Thus he becomes the bane of society, the sport of his enemies and the tormentor of himself. No. XV. April 20, 1796. On Fame What's Fame? A fanci’d life in others breath. Pope Ambition is a very restless and troublesome \Ambit/ passion. It raises uneasy emotions, and hurries us on in the pursuit of an imaginary good
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[Page] 55 hears them praised by the author. He will also be apt to detract from others in order to rouse himself. This will pass very well with some; but with the judicious and candid will be considered as a mark of his own inferiority. But if he is so successful as to raise himself to his proposed pile of eminence, what advantage has he gained? Can he raise where he is, or must he descend to his former station? He is non exposed to the view of thousands who entice all his actions, and exaggerate all his faults. Those who were once superior to him, strive to lower him; thinking it detraction from their own merit to see one, whom they thought their inferior, rising above above them. His equals and inferiors defame him; because they cannot bear to see him so much superior to them whom they thought no better than themselves.
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[page] 54 gratifying his vanity, the will be sparing in their recommendations and seem to take no manner of notice of his most illustrious actions. They will never speak of his worth without contempt; and what they cannot undervalue, will be passed over in silence. A man who is too solicitous to gain praise of others, will commit such indecencies himself as will degrade him in the esteem of the discerning. Fearing his worth should be misrepresented or not be universally known, he will attempt to relate his actions himself; and generally with such pedantic strains and needless assentation as will render him ridiculous and contemptible. Though his actions were honorable in themselves, yet they love luster when he extols them himself; and he who once thought them worthy of praise, will pass them over, unnoticed; when he
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[Page] 79 It might be considered that business and recreation are necessarily reciprocal; or that they naturally assist each other. After a considerable part of the day employed in Labor or abstruse study, persons will find a great relief, by spending an hour or two in some entertaining and cheerful society; and what company is better adapted to this purpose than a few agreeable companions assembled and joining in a dance? Will not their dejected spirits revive, and receive new animation, and will not a fresh vigor enable them to pursue their usual employment with greater alacrity and delight? Will not the student and all whose circumstances or profession confine them to a sedentary life find their dancing contribute as much to health and cheerfulness as to amusement? I am indeed of opinion, that, if dancing were substituted in the place of the ordinary amusements of the vulgar, it would have a tendency to reform their morals as well as their manners. It would certainly prevent much of the ribaldry, scand—al,
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[page] 75 No. XXI. May 23, 1796. Resignation to Providence. Require not things to happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on we//. Epictetus. We are all apt to refine at the established course of nature, and to murmur at every thing that is contrary to over wishes, or that tends to disturb the schemes we have planned for the gratification of our desires
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[Page] 76 But if we could concern our tempers to the dispensations of providence, and endeavor to bear what cannot be avoided, with fortitude; if, instead of refining because things do not happen as we wish, we could wish them to happen as they do, a great part of the misery of human life would be avoided. If we could wish rather to be governed in our temper and actions, by infinite wisdom, then to to govern, we should certainly be more happy than we are. For in what condition would the world be, if half of our wishes could be gratified? So inconsistent are our desires, that, in gratifying one, many others are erased, and when things happen according to one man's wishes, twenty others perhaps are greatly disappointed. We ought therefore to wish things to happen as they do happen, and not as one man wishes them to happen, or as another thinks are most agreeable to have circumstances.
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[Page] 78 own, as wicked and immoral, and the most innocent relaxations of any class superior to their own, as licensiousness and vice. Yet after all, pleasure of one kind or other is pursued by every one; and what innocent amusements are prohibited, or for want of judgment to discriminate between the innocent and the criminal, we often see youth involved in all kinds of vice and profligacy. And on the contrary, when good company and innocent pleasures are recommended, those that are criminal will soon be relinquished. It therefore concerns all who regard the good of society, to point out and distinguish those amusements which may be pursued without danger to the morals, from such as have a dangerous tendency. But I shall, at this time, make only a few observations of the amusement of dancing.
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[Page] 77 No. XXII. May 24, 1796. On the Utility of Dancing. Dancing, in a degree, is an essential part of a good education. Bennet. The principal motive, by which mankind are influenced in their actions and conduct, appears to be pleasure. All the plans, proposals, and views of individuals tend only to promote and secure this point; and though some may deny the influence of this motive, yet
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[Page] 97 had a store broken open, about the same time that Mr. Clarke found the money, some of his neighbors conjectured he had stolen the money; and having mentioned their suspicions among their acquaintance, it soon began to be reported for truth that he had broken open the store. Various other occurrences of the like nature were reported abroad; which, who they had no probability of truth, were yet so well received, that none pretended to distrust their authenticity, but spread them among all their acquaintance, every time adding a little, till at last they amounted almost a known truth. Such falsehoods could not but give our neighbor much uneasiness and trouble; at which his enemies secretly rejoiced, and congratulated themselves on this success of their pernicious schemes. It must be owned, however, that Mr. Clarke deserved some mortification; for his good fortune served only to render him arrogant and supercilious. He thought himself entitled to treat them with naughtiness and contempt; and they return loaded him with calumny and dishonor. — When I have convenient opportunity, I may perhaps offer a few thoughts more on this subject. Observator.
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[Page] 96 But they soon began to take other methods to gratify their envious disposition, and to lessen their neighbor's happiness. All his past transactions were criticized with ungenerousness and severity; new interpretations were made of them; and every circumstance that tended to injure or degrade his character were called up, and industriously circulated in the neighborhood. Every extraordinary action he had performed was passed over in silence, or mentioned with contempt and what what appeared to honorable at the time they happened, were represented as proceeding scorn mean or selfish motives. Every one talked of his pride and niggardliness, who he was generally known before this, for his generosity and conduction. Nothing he did in private or public affairs was right; all the town were his enemies, except a few who had pretended friendship from selfish motives; and the only reason that could be given for their conduct was, that their neighbor was in better circumstances than themselves, or richer than they wished him to be. Another scandal was industriously spread among the neighborhood. A merchant having
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[Page] 99 assistance in proportion to the greatness of the calamity. Riches, pleasure, and even friendship afford but little consolation in adversity; for they either disappear as soon as their help is wanted, or when present are destitute of relief. But patience, as it is always near, is able to aleviate the greatest calamity. It always gains the victory of those who disgrace or hurt our character, by convincing them that we are able to bear their malignity. Envy, which delights in seeing others distressed, is sure to miss part of his aim; and no misfortune can overwhelm us, so long as we are defended by patience. To the distressed everything that can afford amusement should be indulged; otherwise the calamity will be in danger of overpowering their patience, for want of something to divert their attention from a too frequent contemplation of their misery. It is much better to forget an evil, when it can be done, and at other times to bear it with fortitude, than to keep continually uneasy from a solitary meditation of our calamities.
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[Page] 98 No. XXVII. July 18, 1796. On Patience. Patience, in a world abound with so much evil as the present, is a very necessary virtue. Human nature is subject to so many calamities and pains that life is almost insupportable without it; and if we consider the great influence of the passions in weakening and destroying its operations; we must be convinced it cannot be too often inculcated
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[Page] 100 No. XXVIII. July 23, 1796. On the difficulty of an Author's pleasing his Readers. There is nothing more difficult than for an author to please all his readers. As at a feast, tho there are a variety of dishes served up in the neatest manner, yet very few are suited; this has no appetite at all, that prefers something else; and a third is disgusted on some other account: just so

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