and Revealed Religion, 8vo. 7s 6d. bound. Watson's Horne's Ogilvie's View of the Theological Tracts, 6 vol. 8vo. 21 2s. bound in calf. Longman. Blair's Sermons, 5 vols. 8vo. 1/ 11s bds. Cadell. Porteus's Sermons, 2 vol. 8vo. 12s. bds. Cadell. Discourses, 2 vol. 8vo 12s bds. principal Deistical Writers, 8vo. Free Thinking. A Defence of Natural and Revealed Religion, being an Abridgment of Boyle's Lectures 4 vol. 8vo. Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 3 vol. 4to. 31 79 bds. Supplement, 138. bds. Taylor. SENSUAL AFFECTIONS. Do what we will, of all the enemies which can attack a young man, the most dangerous, and that aJone from which we cannot separate him, is himself; this enemy, however, is dangerous only through our own fault, for as I have often said, it is the imagination which inflames the passions. Watch carefully, therefore, over him; he will guard himself against external danger, but it is you who must guard him against himself. If possible, constantly occupy the same bed-room; and never let him sleep with a companion. Put no confidence in instinct, when it's bounds have been exceeded. Instinct is a safe guide when it proceeds alone, but becomes suspicious when mixed with human préjudices and customs. If your pu→ pil, like the vicious in cities, should ever be taught the means of amusing his passions, and supplying the opportunities of gratifying them, he would be utterly undone. His body and mind would froin that time become enervated, carrying to the grave the deplorable effects of a most pernicious habit, the most fatal which a young man can be subject to. Till á youth arrives at the age of 20 years, his body is growing, and stands in need of all it's substance; continence during that interval is prescribed by na ��མ�ས ture; if he neglects her prescriptions herein, it is at the expense of his constitution. After this term, continence becomes a moral duty; it is of use to teach us the command of ourselves and our appetites; but moral duties have their modifications, their rules, and exceptions. When human weakness renders an alternative inevitable, of the two evils we are to prefer the least, and in every case, it is better to commit a fault, than to contract a vicious habit. The real progress of nature is gradual and slow; the motion of the blood quickens; the spirits begin to ferment, and the constitution forms by slow and certain degrees. A long inquietude precedes our first desires, a long ignorance diverts them various ways, and we desire we know not what. The blood flows quickly, the pulse beats highly, and a superabundance of life seems impatient to extend it's limits. The eye acquires vivacity, and inquisitively explores all other beings; we begin to have an interest in those by whom we are surrounded; we begin to perceive that we were not made to live alone. Thus the heart begins to open to human affections, and becomes capable of attachment. The first sentiment of which a youth, carefully educated, is susceptible, is not love, but friendship. The first act of his youthful imagination, is to inform him that there are beings similar to himself, and the species affects him before the sex. Another advantage arising from prolonging his innocence is, that it enables us, by means of his growing sensibility, to sow the first seeds of hu manity in his heart; an advantage of infinite impor tance, because it is the only time of his life when this care will be attended with equal success. It is a fact that young people, early corrupted, and ad dicted to debauchery, are inhuman and cruel; the heat of their constitution renders them impatient, vindictive, and impetuous. Their imagination engrossed by one particular object, rejects every other; they have neither tenderness nor pity, and would sacrifice all the world to the most trifling gratification. On the contrary, a youth educated in simplicity and innocence, is inclined to the tender passions by the first impulse of nature. ou When that critical age approaches, which indicates the existence of those desires which are natural to the sexes, exhibit to your pupil such scenes as may restrain rather than accelerate the growth of his passions. Be extremely circumspect in the choice of his companions, his employments, his pleasures. In proportion as he becomes more enlightened, let the ideas which you mean to excite be adapted to his understanding; and in proportion as his desires take fire, make choice of such objects as will most effectually stifle the flame. It has been told by an old military gentleman, who was as much distinguished for his morals as for his courage, that his father, who was a sensible man, seeing that he was naturally much inclined to women, spared no pains to curb this propensity; but finding, notwithstanding all his care, that his son still persisted in his vices, he carried him to a hospital established for the cure of people in the venereal disease, and, without any previous intimation of his design, led him into a gallery full of those unhappy wretches, who were severely expiating the folly which had brought them thither. At this hideous spectacle, so offensive to all his senses, the young man grew sick!" Go, thou wretched debauchee," said the father, with a significant look No. 68. 39 and emphasis, "follow thy loose inclinations; it will not be long before, thou wilt think thyself happy in being admitted into this place; or perhaps a victim to the most infamous sufferings, thou wilt compel thy father to thank God for thy death,' These few words joined to the affecting scene before him, made an impression on the young man which time never effaced. Condemned by his profession to spend his youth in garrisons, he choose rather to bear the raillery of his companions, than imitate their vices. was a man, said he, and had my foibles; but during my whole life I never could behold a public prostitute without horror, Tutors!, let me advise you to put little confidence in words; but learn to make a proper choice of time, place, and circumstances: let examples be your lectures, and rest assured of their effect. [Rousseau 9linze of an a and THE SHAPE. neithe 97q ni b.s Delicate young ladies are very liable to become awry at many boarding schools; this is occasioned principally by their being obliged too long to preserve an erect attitude, by sitting on forms for many hours together. To prevent this the school seats should, either, have backs, on which they may occasionally rest themselves, or desks before them on which they may occasionally lean. This is a thing of greater consequence than may appear to those, who have not attended to it and who wish their children to acquire a very erect attitude. When the least tendency to become awry is abserved, they should be advised to lie down on a bed or sofa for an hour in the middle of the day, for many months; which, generally prevents the increase of this deform ity by taking off for a time the pressure of the head and neck and shoulders on the spine of the back; and, at the same time, it tends to make them grow taller Young persons when nicely measured, are found to he half an inch higher in the morning than at night; as is well known to those who inlist very young men for soldiers. This is owing to the cartilages between the bones of the back becoming compressed by the weight of the head and shoulders on them during the day. It is the same pressure, which produces curvitures and distortions of the spine in growing children, where the bones are softer than usual and which may thus be relieved by an horizontal posture for an hour in the middle of the day, or by being frequently allowed to lean on a chair, or to play on a carpet on the ground. að Young ladies should also be directed, where two sleep in a bed, to change every night, or every week, their sides of the bed; which will prevent their tendency to sleep always on the same side; which is not only liable to produce crookedness, but also, to occasion diseases by the internal parts being so long kept in uniform contact as to grow together. For the same reason they should not be allowed to sit always on the same side of the fire or window; because they will then be inclined too frequently to bend towards one side; which in those constitutions, where the bones are too soft, is liable to produce crookedness of the spine, Another great cause of injury to the shape of young ladies is from the pressure of stays, or other tight bandages; which at the same time cause other diseases by changing the form or situation of the internal parts. If a hard part of the stays, even a knot of the thread, with which they are sewed together, be pressed upon one side more than |