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and ruining them by that neglect, He pays indeed faid I too much for his whiftle

8. If I knew a mifer, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the efteem of his fellow citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship for the fake of accumulating wealth, Poor man said I, you do indeed pay too much for the While.

9. When I meet with a man of pleafure, facrificing every laudable improvement of the mind, or his fortune, to mere corpo. real fenfations, and ruining his health in the purfuit; Miftaken man, fay I, you are providing pain for yourfelf inftead of plea. fure; you give too much for you. Whifile.

10. If I fee one fond of fine clothes, fine furniture, fine houses fine equipage, all above his fortune, for which he contracts debts, and ends his career in prifon; Alas! fay I, he has paid dear, very dear for his While.

11. In fhort, I conceived that great part of the miseries of mankind were brought upon them by the falfe eftimates they had made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their Whiffles.

HISTORY or POCAHONTAS.

7. PERHAPS they, who are not particularly acquainted with the history of Virginia, may be ignorant that Pocahontas was the protectrefs of the English, and often fcreened them from the cruelty of her father.

2. She was but twelve years old, when Capt. Smith, the bra veft, the most intelligent and the moft humane of the first col onists, fell into the hands of the favages. He already underftood their language, had traded with them feveral time, and often appeafed the quarrels between the Europeans and them. Often had he been obliged alfo to fight them, and punish their perfidy.

3. At length however, under the pretext of commerce, he was drawn into an ambush, and the only two companions who accompanied him fell before his eyes; but though alone, by his dexterity he extricated himself from the troop which furrounded him; until, unfortunately, imagining he fhould fave himself by croffing a morafs, he ftuck faft, fo that the favages against whom he had no means of defending himself, at last, took and bound him and conducted him to Powhatan.

4 The king was fo proud of having captain Smith in his.

power, that he fent him in triumph to all the tributary princes and ordered that he thould be fplendidly treated, till he returned to fuffer that death which was prepared for him.

5. The fatal moment at laft arrived. Captain Smith was laid upon the hearth of the favage king, and his head placed upon a large ftone to receive the ftroke of death; when Pocahontas the youngest and darling daughter of Powhatan, threw herfelf upon his body, clafpfed him in her arms, and declared, that if the cruel fentence was executed, the first blow fhould fall on her.

6. All favages (abfolute fovereigns and tyrants not excepted) are invariably more affectedy the tears of infancy, than the voice of humanity. Powhata could not refift the tears and prayers of his daughter.

7. Captain Smith obtained his life, on condition of paying for his ranfom a certain quantity of mufkets, powder and iron utenfils; but how were they to be obtained? They would nei ther permit him to return to Jamestown, nor let the English know where he was, left they fhould demand him fword in hand.

8. Captain Smith, who was as fenfible as courageous, faid, that if Powhatan would permit one of his fubjects to carry to Jamestown a leaf which he took from his pocket book, he should find under a tree at the day and hour appointed, all the articles demanded for his ranfom.

9. Powhatan confented; but without having much faith in his promifes, believing it to be only an artifice of the Captain to prolong his life. But he had written on the leaf a few lines, fufficient to give an account of his fituation. The meffenger returned. The king fent to the place fixed upon, and was greatly aftonished to find every thing which had been demanded.

10. Powhatan could not conceive this mode of tranfmitting thoughts; and Captain Smith was henceforth looked upon as a great magician, to whom they could not fhow 100 much re. fpect. He left the favages in this opinion, and haftened to re turn home.

II. Two or three years after, fome fresh differences arifing amidit them and the English, Powhatan, who no longer thought them, forcerers, but ftill feared their power, laid a horrid plan to get rid of them altogether. His project was to attack them in profound peace, and cut the throats of the whole colony. H

12. The night of this intended confpiracy, Pocahontas took advantage of the obfcurity; and in a terrible ftorm which kept the favages in their tents, efcaped from her father's houfe, advifed the English to be on their guard, but conjured them to fpare her family; to appear ignorant of the intelligence the had given, and terminate all their differences by a new treaty. 13. It would be tedious to relate all the fervices which this angel of peace rendered to both nations. I fhall only add, that the English, I know not from what motives, but certainly against all faith and equity, thought proper to carry her off." Long and bitterly did the deplore her fate; and the only con folation fhe had was Captain Smith, in whom she found a fecond

father.

14. She was treated with great refpect, and married to a plan ter by the name of Rolfe, who foon after took her to England. This was in the reign of James the first; and it is faid, that the monarch, pedantic and ridiculous, in every point, was fo infat uated with the prerogatives of royalty, that he expreffed his difpleasure that one of his fubjects should dare to marry the daughter even of a favage king.

15. It will not perhaps be difficult to decide on this occafion, whether it was the favage king who derived honor from finding himfelf placed upon a level with the European prince, or the English monarch, who by his pride and prejudices, reduced him felf to a level with the chief of the favages.

16. Be that as it will, Captain Smith, who had returned to London before the arrival of Pocahontas, was extremely happy to fee her again; but dared not treat her with the fame familiarity as at Jamestown. As foon as the faw him, fhe threw her felf into his arms, calling him her father; but finding that he neither returned her careffes with equal warmth, nor the endear ing title of daughter, fhe turned afide her head and wept bitLeily and it was a long time before they could obtain a single word from her,

17. Captain Smith enquired feveral times what could be the caufe of her affliction. What! faid fhe, did I not fave thy life in America? When I was torn from the arms of my father, and conducted amongst thy friends, didft thou not promife to be a father to me? Didit thou not affure me, that if I went into thy country thou wouldst be my father, and that I fhould be thy daughter? Thou haft deceived me, and behold me, now here, a ftranger and an orphan."

18. It was not difficult for the Captain to make his peace with this charming creature, whom he tenderly loved. He prefented her to several people of the firft quality; but never dared to take her to court, from which, however the received feveral favors.

19. After a refidence of feveral years in England, an ex ample of virtue and piety, and attachment to her husband, she died, as he was on the point of embarking for America. She left an only fon, who was married, and left none but daughters; and from thefe are defcended fome of the principal characters in Virginia.

EMILIUS, or Dometic Happiness. THE government of a family depends on fuch various and oppofite principles, that it is a matter of extreme de licacy. Perhaps their is no fituation is life in which it is fo difficult to behave with propriety, as in the contest between parental authority and parental love. This is undoubtedly the reason why we fee fo few happy families. Few parents are both loved and refpected, because moft of them are either the dupes or the tyrants of their children.

2. Some parents, either from a natural weekness of mind, or an excess of fondness, permit and even encourage their chil dren, in a thousand familiarities, which render them ridicu lous, and by diminishing the refpect which is due to their age and ftation, deftroy all their authority.

3. Others, ruled by a partial and blind affection, which can deny nothing to its object, indulge their children in all their romantic wishes, however trifling and foolish; however degrad ing to their dignity or injurious to their welfare.

4. Others, foured by misfortunes, or grown peevish and jeal ous by the lofs of youthful pleafures, and an acquaintance with the deceit and folly of the world, attempt to reftrain the ideas and enjoyments of youth by the rigid maxims of age.

5. The children of the first clafs often offend by filly man. ners and a kind of good natured difrespect. Thofe of the fecond are generally proud, whimsical and vicious. Thofe of the third, if they are fubdued, when young, by the rigor of paren tal difcipline, forever remain morofe, illiberal and unfociable; or if, as it commonly happens, they find means to elcape from reftraint, they abandon themfelves to every fpecies of licen. tioufnefs.

6. To parents of thefe defcriptions may be added another clafs, whole fondnefs blinds their eyes to the moft glaring vi ces of their children; or invent fuch palliations, as to prevent the most falutary corrections.

7. The talle for amufements in young people, is the most difficult to regulate by the maxims of prudence. In this ar ticle, parents are apt to err, either by extreme indulgence on the one hand, or immoderate rigor on the other.

8. Recollecting the feelings of their youth, they give un bounded licence to the inclinations of their children; or hav. ing loft all relifh for amufements, they refufe to gratify their moft moderate defires.

9. It is a maxim which univerfally holds true, that the best method of guarding youth from criminal pleafures, is to in dulge them freely in thofe that are innocent. A person who has free access to reputable fociety, will have little inclination to frequent that which is vicious.

10. But thofe, who are kept under conftant reftraint, who are feldom in amufements, who are perpetually awed by the frowns of a parent, or foured by a difappointment of their moft harmless wishes, will at times break over all bounds to gratify their taste for pleafure, and will not he anxious to dif criminate between the innocent and the criminal,

11. Nothing contributes more to keep youth within the limits of decorum, than to have their fuperiors mingle in their company at proper times, and participate of their amufements.

12, This condescenfion flatters their pride; at the fame time, that refpect for age, which no familiarities can wholly efface, naturally checks the extravagant fallies of mirth, and the indelicate rudeneffes which young people are apt to indulge in their jovial hours.

13. That awful diflance at which fome parents keep their children, and their abhorrance of all juvenile diverfions, which compel youth to facrifice their most innocent defires, or veil the gratification of them with the moft anxious fecrecy, have as direct a tendency to drive young perfons into a profligate life, as the force of vicious example.

14. It is as impoffible to give to the age of twenty the feelings or the knowledge of fixty, as it would be folly to with to clothe a child with grey hairs, or to flamp the fading afpect of Autumn on the bloom of May. Nature has given to every age fome peculiar paffions and appetites; to moderace and

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