fition, and, like a river, fwells the higher for having its courfe ftopped.-JEREMY COL

LIER.

Free Trade.

LL reftrictions on Trade are naught; and no company whatever, whether they trade in a joint-stock, or under regulations, can be for public good, except it may be eafy for all or any of his Majefty's fubjects to be admitted into them at any time for a very inconfiderable fum.-SIR J. CHILD.

Free-will.

E have a power to fufpend the profecution of this or that defire; this feems to me the fource of all liberty; in this feems to confift that which is improperly called Free-will.LOCKE.

Friends and Enemies.

E that has no friend and no enemy is one of the vulgar, and without talents, power or energy.-LA

VATER.

2. A FRIENDSHIP that makes the leaft noife is very often the most useful; for which reafon I fhould prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one.--ADDISON.

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3. A MAN that is fit to make a friend of, muft have conduct to manage the engagement, and refolution to maintain it. muft ufe freedom without roughness, and oblige without defign. Cowardice will betray friendship, and covetoufnefs will starve it. Folly will be naufeous, paffion is apt to ruffle, and pride will fly out into contumely and neglect.-JEREMY COLLIER.

Friendship.

RIENDSHIP is compofed of a fingle foul inhabiting two bodies. -ARISTOTLE.

2. FRIENDSHIP improves hap

piness and abates mifery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.CICERO.

3. THERE is nothing so agreeable to nature or fo convenient to our affairs, whether in prosperity or adverfity, as Friendship. Ibid.

4. FRIENDSHIP is a ftrong and habitual inclination in two perfons to promote the good and happiness of each other. - AD

DISON.

5. FRIENDSHIP is one of those few things that are the better for wearing. Alphorifus the wife, king of Aragon, tells us that all the acquifitions and pursuits of men, excepting four, were but baubles :—namely, old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old books to read, and old friends to converfe with.-JEREMY COLLIER.

6. A TRUE FRIEND is distinguished in the crifis of hazard and neceffity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his foul and the loyalty of his heart.-EN

NIUS.

7. IT has been a difficult queftion, whe

ther new friends are ever to be preferred to old ones; as it is usual to esteem young horses above those worn with years and fervice. A doubt unworthy of a man, for we ought not to be fatiated with Friendship as with other things.—CICERO.

8. IF thou wouldeft get a Friend, prove him, and be not hafty to credit him: for fome man is a friend for his own occafion, and will not abide in the day of thy trouble., Some friend is a companion at the table, but will not continue in the day of thy affliction. A faithful friend is a strong defence, and he that hath found fuch an one hath found a treasure. Nothing doth countervail a faithful friend, and his excellency is invaluable. A faithful friend is the medicine of life; and they that fear the Lord fhall find him. Forfake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old thou fhalt drink it with pleasure.-JESUS BEN SIRACH.

God's Creatures.

ERE it not strange if God fhould have made such store of glorious creatures on earth, and leave them all to be confumed in fecular va

nity, allowing none but the baser fort to be employed in his own fervice.-HOOKER.

2. WHOEVER imagines that the wonderful order and incredible conftancy of the heavenly bodies and their motions, whereon the prefervation and welfare of all things depend, is not governed by an intelligent Being, is deftitute of understanding. For fhall we, when we fee an artificial engine, a sphere or dial for inftance, acknowledge at firft fight, that it is the work of art and understanding; and yet, when we behold the Heavens moved and whirled about with incredible velocity, conftantly finishing their annual viciffitude, make any doubt, that these are the performances not only of reafon, but of a certain excellent and Divine reafon.-CICERO.

3. I WONDER much at the boldness with which fome perfons endeavour to demon