proud more properly. The one has greater depth; the other a more lively imagination. The one is more frequently respected; the other more generally beloved. The one a Cato: the other a Cæsar. Vide Sallust.

WHAT Cæsar said, “Rubicundos amo; pallidos timeo;" may be applied to familiarity, and to reserve.

A RESERVED man often makes it a rule to leave company with a good speech: And I believe sometimes proceeds so far as to leave company because he has made one. Yet it is his fate often, like the mole, to imagine himself deep, when he is near the surface.

WERE it prudent to decline this reserve, and this horror of disclosing foibles; to give up a part of character to secure the rest? The world will certainly insist upon having some part to pull to pieces. Let us throw out some follies to the envious; as we give up counters to a highwayman, or a barrel to a whale, in order to save one's money and one's ship: To let it make exceptions to one's head of hair, if one can escape being stabbed in the heart.

THE

THE reserved man should drink double glasses.

PRUDENT men lock up their motives; letting familiars have a key to their heart, as to their garden.

A RESERVED man is in continual conflict with the social part of his nature; and even grudges himself the laugh into which he sometimes is betrayed.

-Seldom he smiles

And smiles in such a sort as he disdained

Himself that could be moved to smile at anything.

“A FOOL and his words are soon parted;" for so should the proverb run.

COMMON understandings, like cits in gardening, allow no shades to their picture.

MODESTY often passes for errant haughtiness; as what is deemed spirit in a horse proceeds from fear.

THE higher character a person supports, the more he should regard his minutest actions.

THE

THE reserved man should bring a certificate of his honesty, before he be admitted into company.

RESERVE is no more essentially connected with understanding, than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.*

These were no other than a collection of hints, when I proposed to write a poetical essay on Reserve.

ON

ON EXTERNAL FIGURE.

HERE is a young gentleman in my parish who, on account of his superior equipage, is esteemed universally more proud and more haughty than his neighbours. 'Tis frequently hinted, that he is by no means entitled to so splendid an appearance, either by his birth, his station, or his fortune; and that it is, of consequence, mere pride that urges him to live beyond his rank, or renders him blind to the knowledge of it. With all this fondness for external splendour, he is a most affable and ingenious man ; and for this reason I am inclined to vindicate him, when these things are mentioned to his disadvantage.

IN the first place, it is by no means clear, that dress and equipage are sure signs of pride. Where it is joined with a supercilious behaviour, it becomes then a corroborative testimony. But this is not always the

case:

case: The refinements of luxury in equipage, or a table, are perhaps as often the gratifications of fancy, as the consequence of an ambition to surpass and eclipse our equals. Whoever thinks that taste has nothing to do here, must confine the expression to improper limits; assuredly imagination may find its account in them, wholly independent of worldly homage and considerations more invidious.

IN the warmth of friendship for this gentleman, I am sometimes prompted to go further. I insist, it is not birth or fortune only that gives a person claim to a splendid appearance; that it may be conferred by other qualifications, in which my friend is acknowledged to have a share.

I HAVE Sometimes urged that remarkable ingenuity, any great degree of merit in learning, arts or sciences, are a more reasonable authority for a splendid appearance than those which are commonly presumed to be That there is something more personal in this kind of advantages than in rank or fortune, will not be denied and surely there ought to be some proportion observed betwixt the case and the thing enclosed. The

So.

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