sure, is to waste a valuable portion
of life in a manner which will not
please on reflection. To set rich-
es before our eyes, is to stint the
abilities of man to a mean degree:
and when by sickness we are con-
fined to solitude the recollection of
all our wealth will not drive away
the tormenting langour of a sin-
gle hour; for our minds, in such
a case, want pleasing ideas, and
our ideas are but the confused 'ap-
pals' of conscience for neglected
apportunity. Of a life thus spent
Shakespeare speaks with ininita-
ble eloquence. I do not recollect
a more beautiful comparison than
the following in any part of his

works:

pear but as • unreal mockery,
when that mist which they induce
is removed from our eyes.—
Learning then appears most valu-
able, when it is most wanted; and
most lovely, when former pursuits
appear most hateful.

-If thou art rich, thou art poor; For like an ass, whose back with ingo's bows,

Let it not be thought, however, that I wish to contradict a received and just opinion, that learning has often betrayed men into many errors which in the days of Ignor-ance they could never have fallen into. This has been the case in many late instances, but it occurred in such men as, from the vic

ious affectation of eminence and singularity, attempted to overthrow all knowledge whatever, and force us to disbelieve our senses and our judgment. If ever they possessed

Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but Learning, it vanished on their ar.

a journey,

And death unloads thee.'

If fame be our sole pursuit, it may, perhaps, quicken our speed on the road to Learning; but if that fame has for its objects ambition and power,we shall find at last that we have pursued the airy nothings' of fashionable frivolity and mistaken honor, and that when

rival at this stage of human depravity, and in wishing to know more than the rest of mankind, they soon lost the memory of what they had known. My readers can not be ignorant that I am now hinting at the common opinion, that 'too much learning leads to infidelity but in all my experience I have ever found, that they who knew most of human learning paid the most implicit obedience to Divine Precept. What, indeed, is human learning and experience but a commentary and elucidation of the will of Heaven?

adversity drives us to reflection, it
will be embittered by the assurance
that we have stored our minds
with no knowledge to sweeten re-
cess from the world, no fortitude
to bear up against its frowns, and
no experience but our own to teach
us our crior. Riches and fame,
when at the utmust height, ap-

Joined to the utility of Learning as improving the nature of man, and removing him at a farther dis

ever, that learning is but the orna-
ment, not the only duty of life.-
Without piety, it will be an useless
mass of unprofitable superfluities,
that cannot cheer us in our retire-
ment, nor withdraw the hand of
Adversity: but joined to Piety,
it approaches more nearly to per

we can possibly do. Learning will.
not only be embellished by piety,
but advanced and improved; for
piety, by restraining Man within
the bounds of regularity and tem-

tance from the brutes, & nearer to
immortality, I would beg to men-
tion the many pleasures that flow
from it. Public amusements yield
a satisfaction always temporary, &
often dangerous. Teo frequent
recourse to them indicates, and in-
duces, vacancy of thought, and
susceptibility of impression, how-fection than by any other means
ever pernicious. But the pleasures
resulting from the perusal of works
of learning leave no sting behind;
they make the most tedious mo-
ments appear short, and the most
short moments profitably employ.perance, preserves his faculties en-
ed. The pleasure resuiting from
Learning never palls, for our lives
are too short to go the great round
of science: hence nature has
wisely made difference of genius to
direct us to different pursuits: and
yet even in one pursuit we are a-
ble to feel no languor; the farther
we go the farther we wish to go,
and every present satisfaction
seems to exceed the former.
With our progrees, too, our task
becomes easy; difficulties vanish
in proportion to our inclination to
unravel them; and the little as-
peritics that are apt to frighten a
young mind, appear only as dan-
gers which we derive merit from
the conquest of. It has its difficul-
ties mixed with its pleasures. Like
the surface of the globe, on one
part you will find almost inacces-
sible mountains, and in another
pleasant paths; yet to an eye that
can comprehend the whole, these
inequalities take not from the beau-
ty of that whole.

tire, and his judgment unimpaired. The principles of Piety are fixed. as the irrevocable laws of Fate; but those of learning are in some measure uncertain, and independent on human opinion, which will always approach to certainty and inaffability in proportion as the vice and folly that bewilder the soul into a maze of perplexity, are removed. Learning is in a progressive state, but Piety was as fule ly known many hundred years ago. as it is now. If it is objected against Learning, that it is at present enveloped in many obscurities it may be justly answered, that ac cording to the endeavours of men these obscurities will disappear: but if ever from vice or inactivity. we neglect learning, the barbarity of former ages will return, and be heightened by the dissipation of refinement.

C.

HE who cannot overlook the faults and faibles of others, is not ahove dbmmity

It must be remembered, how-Wing the same himself.

chronology &c. few can ever boast
of an equal degree of perfection.

He died calm; full of faith in
JESUS, and hope of a glorious Im-
mortality.

His earthly remains were on Tuesday the 19th inst, deposited in the middle aisle of the German Lutheran Church of St. Michaels, amidst an immense and bewailing multitude of all denominations.

Schlumm'r im Frieden! Wehmuth.
Sehnsucht, Kummer

Blickt dir unser weinend Auge nach.
Schlumm'r im Frieden! Und erwach
vom Schlummer
Wonnevoll am Auferstehungs Tag.
C. L. M.

Died at Philadelphia on the 16th inst in the 67th year of his age, the rev. Johann Friedrick Schmidt,|| president of the Lutheran Clergy in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States, and for many years Pastor of the German lutheran Congre. gation in that City. A lengthy enumeration of the many virtues this great and good man possessed, would indeed be superfluous, as all those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, especially his immediate hearers, can sufficiently testify to the real worth and inestimable Excellencies of this peaceproclaiming Apostle of Christ.-Suffice it therefore, to say, he was a genuine Christian, a faithful preacher of the word of God, unremitting in the strict discharge of the various duties of his laborious Ministry, and as far as ever practi-where it is usual for the advocates cable,true to the example of Christ the head of the Church, and of his Apostles.

In his social Intercou: se he was an affectianate father, a faithful friend, a kind adviser, with a heart full of charity and good will to all mankind.

In the knowledge of sacred history,in the ancient Languages, and in the sciences of astronomy

From the Spirit of the Press

We seem at present to be enchism, with all that we have been deavouring to unlearn our chatetaught about religion, in order to Bolingbroke's system. I went the model our faith to the fashion of other night to the Robin Hood,

against religion to assemble, and openly avow their infidelity. One of the questions for the night was Whether lord Bolingbroke had not done greater service to mankind by his writing than the apos les or evangelists? As this socicy is chiefly omposed, of lawyers, clerks, petty tradesmen, and the lowest mechanics, I was at surprised to find such amazing er. first udition among them. Tindall,

I have frequently heard many wise tradesmen setting the most important articles of our faith over A baker took oca pint of beer. casion from Canning's affair to maintain, in opposition to the scriptures, that man might live by bread alone, at least that woman might; for else said he, how could the girl be supported for a whole month by a few hard crusts? In answer to this, a barber surgeon set forth the improbability of that story, and thence inferred, that it was impossible for our saviour. have fasted forty days in the wilde

ness. 1 lately heard a Midshipre soul is the body, and the body the soul: and that after death. there is neither body nor soul.

swear that the Bible was all a lie for he had sailed round the world with Lord Anson, and if there had

that natural religion is the only religion and that all religion is

unnatural.

tinkling of a flattering tongue and though it has been repeated to her a thousand times over, that she is handsome, she must needs hear her person praised again and again, morning, noon and night, or she falls fathoms deep into the vapours. With a taste vitiated by a never-ceasing recurrence of high seasoned compliments and fulsome Lastly, I believe in all unbelief.. adulation, plain truth is as unplea

I believe not revelation: I believe in the Talmud, I believe in the Alcoran, I believe not the Bible: I believe in Sanconiatho, I believe in Confucious, I believe in Mahomet, I believe not in Christ.

FEMALE BEAUTY.

To curl her waving hairs, Assist her blushes, and inspire her airs.' WHAT a shape! What an air! What charming complexion and features! 'Tis just the thing!Thus it was LETITIA communed with her own heart, while she was viewing her attractions in the glass.

'Gentle vanity! how sweet are thy illusions to the heart of man,'

-ay, and to the heart of WOMAN too. We look in vain for the jewels which so fine a casket seems made to contain.

LETITIA is not by nature foolish; but is made so by her beauty; it has spoiled both her understanding and her temper. Her attention occupied perpetually on her person, she has found no time to cultivate her mind.-Accustomed to a constant pursuit of trifles, her understanding, instead of enlarging with her years, has shrunk to the size of the little objects on which it is wholly employed. No music charms her, like the

sant to the ear, as plain food is to the palate of an epicure.

Ye nymphs of rosy lips and radiant eyes,” give ear to a word of wholesom advice. Gifted as ye are with beauty, be thankful to the giver, but not vain of the gift-else ye had better never had it. Be it your care to add to your beauty discretion, benignity, and whatsoever things are lovely,' both in disposition and behaviour. These will make your peauty wear well, and will more than supply its place when that fading flower shall have passed away.

CHARACTER OF A MAN
OF SPIRIT.

I AM reputed by some of my acquaintance to want spirit, and it is for no other reason, but that I do not live above my income. I have splrit enough to keep out of debt, and endeavour to make all my friends welcome, when they visit me; but, when I make an entertainment, they cry,it is not done with spirit, though it is always as elegant as my circumstances will