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them with the Spirit ani Politcricfs or a -Gcr:- tlcman *, (proftituted and hacknered as ’nir, word is by moderns, when I apply it tu ai.y cnc, 1 mean that He is, at leall, a inti'i of I r.or and ot Sentinaent.) It is the free will Cutr- ing ot a man whofe Heart is mu'h lets con tracted than his Purle, and by accepting this You will lay him under a particular Obliga tion--—He gave me an cxpreflSvc look, and Bow, then vanijhed.' What a Pity, faid I, fuck a noble Heart fhould ever teel Diitrefs ! Heaven lend him happier Days, He certainly deferves them ! Yet, whatever his Misfortunes are--vvhatr- ver DifHculties he may have to encounter, I would rather be that Mao, opprefled as he fccHns to be, than revel, like his falft Friend, in all the Luxury of VWalth—curled with fuch a 4cart as his. Nothing could give me Pleafure, I diflike the Sufpicious •, but I allb difiike to have either my Words or my a5tions mif- canftrued ; and, left it fliould be fufpcdled that I have fpoken too irreverently of Learn ing & knowledge, & too much otkerwife of Gold i 1 protefl: I hive the higheft Veneration for the two tirft, fo far as They improve the Head or amend the Heart •, and I look upon the Love of gold to be the meaneft Vice of a fordid mind ’*, for it excludes, or rather fwai- lotrs up, -all the generous & humane afFec!lions -—and as to gord itielf, tho* it is called the pureft of Metals *, is a Friend to the hungry & the naked *, introduces you at Levees, or pro cures you a Place at Court, and is ho bad Companion on a Journey *, yet take it *, fine and refine it ad infinitum, I fhall never think it has any nthcr Value than what it derives from the Ufe-one makes of ic; neither is this opinion an eccentric Creation of my Brain *, it is a Dodtrinc taught by the Ancients, and, in particular, by a very celebrated one, whole Works will be rtvered until Time fhall de vour them, and all fublunary Things j or un- . til Learning and Knowledge are treated like JuJtice and Honejiy, and banifhed the World. Another Authority might be produced in Favor of it, but cuftom, which changes al- moft the very Nature of many things, has rc- prefented that Authority as merely fabulous *, bcfides, the ancient Writer, jug, now alluded to, obferves, with great Propriety, that Things facredare not to be fported with * But, to get chit golden Affair off my Hands as expt- ditioufly as pofiible, /fhall make free with Ibme Verfes, which were wrote upon this ve ry fubjed by one of the Carelefs-Faaiily,whcfi he had not wherewithal to buy himlelf a Din ner. They are not very poetic, ’tis true *, yet they 'txprefs my Sentiments more explicitly than I can do in fo many words. The fplendid rich unenvied I behold. Nor racks my fcul a bafe delire of Gold. Give me a mind fereoe and chearful Health ; Unenvied let dull Mifers hoard their Wealth. Detefted be the Wretch, who crams hit Store, From Third of Gain, with ill-get, ufelefs Ore, Uy tha* lii* f;rf itefl mine to Tend H f to Want, Aflittar.cc to a Friend. Yci I vvoiiU wilh to indcpenciant live i fvly wants iupplied, I’liave (omething left to give Ksrji me. jult H*av*n ! opprels’d, defpil’d & peir, It e’er, trOBi feulid Views, I tevet more ! But all this is a DigrelSon of my Pen. The Sou of adverfity and his falfe Friend are itill in my Thoughrs, and thus / refiimc the Subject, This flagrant inflance ©f Pfeudoifm, con juring up in my Mind thoufands of others of a finiiiar Nature, (which J wifh to forget.) i was a’moft perfnaded to become a Mifan- thropyfl ; butio antiquated are my Notions of lomf* f'hings, that I never fuffer a friendly Adion, f^r even a friendly Intention, to ^row Sfa.'f in :tiv Memory....“ R will hurt Y«u’* laid Amanua, when a wild Vagary put nne upon doing fornething to my Prejudice. There was Nothing particular in the Words, but they were pronounced in aTcne fo fweedy dif- uaflve, and accompanied with a Look loexpref- fivc ot fyiupathetic TcHdernefs and Regard, that Nothing but Death can ever erafe the /ci- preffions which they made upon my Heart : And upon this Occafion, when the unfriend ly Paflions had drawn Mifanihropy in a Light much lefs detcftable than / had ever, till liiat mo.menr, feenit in; yet, beforeiTiy Heart cocld be prcv/iled upon to adopt that diabuli al Syftem, Gratitude, or lomc fuch anti-moder n Principie, prelented before Me...:How t hearlully wouldft thou have opened thy Purfe tothis UnfortiiRate and how wouldkhv eeue- rous Spirit have comforted his (as it did mine) under its Load of afflidlion ! This changed my Hatred, which was yet but in Embryo, into CcmpalTion and put Me in tolerable good Huirior with Mankind again ; And as I can never feparatc benevo lent /lieaiNlto^rpasia, ^Generous Fair ! al though the SuBljhath eight Times performed his annual Courfeiround this our Globe, fince thy Spirit, relcued from its Prifon here, re gained its native Skies *, yet, flill, ftill, art thou dear unto Me, and with heart-felt joy do /hail thefe /neidents in which / recognize Thee !) a Recollcclion of that.Pleafure, which fparklcd in her Eyes when Slie flic wed me x Vindication of a Character which we both re vered, and®which Malice had endeavored to ftain *, banillied from my Heart every illibe ral /dca, and /curfed myfcif, in the bittereft of terms, for having indulged, or thought of indulging, fuch unmanly Scutinients; and I 1 wore (an Oath which I intend to obfer\e moft ftcredly) that, rather than harbor them the ninety ninth Part of a Second, I would chearfully expole myfelf to the Deceptions d: Impofititns of all the Pleudoifti in the World. And fuch, alas ! there are t© be found, diigracing Humanity, in every corner of the Earth. "" J Nec Dtus Interftt^ The report of the Small-Pox being in this Town is without Foundation. WILMINGTON, (Capi-fzar) printed for ADAM BOYD.
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