TEMPERANCE. TEMPERANCE has been called the physic. It is certainly conducive to health, not only so, but to cheerfulness likewise. A temperance clogs the body, wastes the prop and stupifies the mind, so temperance is fru of a variety of blessings and comforts unkn to the voluptuous. It is said of Diogenes, that, meeting a yo man who was going to a feast, he took him u the street, and carried him home to his friend one who was running into imminent danger, he not prevented him. "What would that philospher have said, he been present (says Addison) at the glutton a modern meal? Would not he have thought master of a family mad, and have begged his vants to have tied down his hands, had he him devour fowl, fish, and flesh; swallow oil vinegar, wine and spices; throw down sallad twenty different herbs, sauces of an hundred gredients, confections and fruits of number sweets and flavours? What counter-ferm must such a medly of intemperance produc the body! For my part, when I behold a fash able table set out in all its magnificence, I f that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and let gies, with other innumerable distempers, lyin ambuscade among the dishes." Lewis Cornaro, a Venitian of noble extract was memorable for having lived healthful and tive to above 100 years of age, by a rigid co of temperance. In his youth he was of a w constitution, and, by irregular indulgence, re If, at about forty years of age, to the e grave, under a complication of diswhich extremity he was told, that he er chance of his life, but by becoming emperate. Being wise enough to adopt some counsel, he reduced himself to a which there are very few examples. himself no more than twelve ounces fourteen ounces of liquor each day, me so habitual to him, that, when he seventy years old, the experiment of ounces to each, by the advice of his I like to have proved fatal to him. At e he wrote a treatise, which has been to English, and often printed, intitled, certain Methods of attaining a long l Life;" in which he relates his own extols temperance to a degree of enAt length, the yolk of an egg became a meal, and sometimes for two, unwith much ease and composure. ght of my acquaintance," says Dr. her, "visiting the famous Dr. Lower ckness, asked him for the best advice e him, how to preserve his health and ife?" The doctor only answered him, t too much.' After some other disknight, not imagining that the doctor hly answered his enquiry, repeated it. thereupon only repeated his answer, I not tell you, do not eat too much?" said not." lore Mayem, on his death-bed, gave led his your diet, use much exercise, and little physi Sully, the great statesman of France, kept always, at the table of Villebon, the frugality which he had been accustomed in early life in army. His table consisted of a few dishes, dre ed in the plainest and most simple manner. T courtiers reproached him often with the simpli of his table. He used to reply, in the words an ancient, "If the guests are men of sense, th is sufficient for them; if they are not, I can v well dispense with their company." TIME. It is of the utmost consequence that we i "Never," says one, delay prove our time. to-morrow, what reason and conscience tell y ought to be performed to-day. To morrow is your's, and, though you should live to enjoy you must not overload it with a burden not own." "God (says another,) who is liberal a generous in all other gifts, teaches us, by the w economy of his Providence, how circumsp we ought to be in the right management of o time; for he never gives us two moments gether; he gives us only the second as he tak away the first, and keeps the third in his hand leaving us in an absolute uncertainty whether will give it us or not.” Grotius used to take for his motto: "Ho ruit," to put himself in continual remembrand that he should usefully employ that time whi was flying away with extreme rapidity; and y so great a sense bad he of the non-improveme , with all his learning, when he came to xclaimed, "I have wasted my life in inoil, and have done nothing. otton Mather was so careful to redeem that, to prevent the tediousness of viwrote over his study door in capital letBE SHORT." enry Jessey, a non-conformist minister, ollowing motto put over his study door: Amice quisquis huc ades Aut agito paucis, aut abi Or help me busied too." H. I. the Roman Emperor, throughout the his whole life, called himself to an acry night for the actions of the past day; often as he found he had slipped any one out doing good, he entered upon his dinemorial, "Perdidi diem;" I have lost Thus may every man say, who suffers a Dass without doing something for God, ul, or for his fellow creatures. e care of the pence, for the pounds will of themselves," was a very just and senection of old Mr. Loundes, the famous of the Treasury under William III. nd George I. "I therefore recommend says an author, "to take care of mir hours will take care of themselves. Be mething or other all day long, and not half hours and quarters of hours, which, ar's end, amount to a great sum." Italian philosopher," says Dr. Johnson, an estate, indeed, which will produce nothing wit out cultivation, but will always abundantly rep the labours of industry, and satisfy the most e tensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to wasted by negligence, to be overrun with noxio plants, or laid out for shew, rather than for use VANITY OF THE WORLD. “THERE are few people in the world," say Saurin, who do not form in their minds agreeab plans of happiness, made up of future flatterin prospects, which have no foundation except their own fancies. The disposition of mind, whic is so general among mankind, is also one of th principal causes of their immoderate desire to liv Some have questioned whether any mortal we ever so happy as to choose to live his life ov again, on condition of passing through all th events through which he had gone from his birt to his last hour. Without investigating this pro blem, I venture to affirm, that mankind woul be much less attached to the world, if they di not flatter themselves with the hope of enjoyin more pleasure than they had hitherto experienced A child fancies, that as soon as he arrives at certain stature, he shall enjoy more pleasure tha he hath enjoyed in his childhood; and this is par donable in a child. The youth persuades himse that men, who are what they call settled in th world, are incomparably more happy than youn people can be at his age. While we think our selves condemned to live single, solitude seem |