Morality. What God has fo united, therefore, let no man put afunder; for it is virtue to maintain RELIGION facred in a great community, and 'tis a moral obligation each to other that good example be set of attending public wORSHIP. Myftic piety is not unfrequent in England, which has of late been too much divided between infidelity and fanaticifm; 'tis orthodox writing, true Christian preaching, and devoutly attentive hearing, that is wanted in our ifland, where the church has no power but of well doing, and ought to fee for that reafon obedient fubmiffion follow each ecclefiaftical precept-where the court and miniftry afford examples of goodness unthought of in other nations-where the bishops and clergy really do poffefs a degree of learning which our neighbours have no chance to come in fight of-where decency marks the clerical character even in the loweft ranks, and every house-I hope I may add every cottage of ten pounds annual value through Great Britain, contains a Bible, a Testament, and a Gramwith one person at leaft capable of reading them to the reft. mar, Great and ineftimable privilege! denied by the Romish church, that now runs to ruin in confequence of fuch worldly caution; and will perhaps learn from her prefent diftrefs, how the knowledge of true RELIGION is neceffary to its veneration, and how that ignorance fhe long encouraged will at length loofe its blind rage against against that very WORSHIP it was intended to fhield-whilft Our church, fecure on Truth's firm rock, Proof even against ELECTRIC fhock, POPULAR BALLAD. REPLY, REJOINDER, ANSWER AND RESPONSE. OF thefe fynonymes the firft feems the political term. Caius fpoke well in the house this morning; but Marcus, who rifes like a giant on the REPLY, obtained moft attention and ap-. plaufe. REJOINDER is almoft wholly a law term, and RESPONSE feems dedicated to the fchools. Converfation finds ANSWER fufficient, and delights in recording thofe happy ones which contain a pungent falt in them. There are, however, fome fhades of difference.When Queen Elizabeth asked her neglected courtier on what he was employing his thoughts, one day, and received this unexpected return to her enquiry" Madam, I was thinking on a woman's promife;" we call it a fharp and biting ANSWER. But when the Conqueror's favourite advifed his mafter to make an early peace, faying, I would accept these terms if I were Alexander; and the king gave him the well-known retort of So would 1 accept them too, were I Parmenio it feems rather a fcoffing REPLY, pro provoked by the pertnefs of a fellow who prefumed on the prince's tame endurance.-"Tis obfervable enough too, that this bitter taunt was a Greek one; for their ANSWERS and epigrams are generally, fo far as I can find, more elegantly fimple than piercingly keen, and have little of that effect which penetrates one's head, when darted by Martial's pen, like a ray of light, and drives at one's heart like a dagger, when urged by the hands of Boileau, Young, or Swift. When Mademoiselle de Gournay, one of the best Greek and Latin fcholars in France, when learning there ftood on its pinnacle, had been teafing Racan the poet with explaining to him, who knew no more on't than myself, fome epigrams in the Anthologia for which he had no tafte; tormenting him with extolling their fuperior merit, and preferring their fimplicity. to all modern excellence, he grew tired; and telling her 'twas time to go to dinner, fhe ordered it up; and helping her friend to fome foup, which was, it feems, particularly infipid and flat: Mademoiselle, faid he, c'eft icy une foupe digne de vous, une foupe vrayment à la Grecque. This was a witty remark, to which the lady made no REPLY. RESENTMENT, DISPLEASURE, INDIGNATION. PAINFUL affections of a feeling heart, and too nearly fynonymous; though the first word is is moft expreffive of that deep fense of injury fo likely to pervade a generous mind-even in fpite of true Chriftian humility, which 'tis our duty fteadily to maintain: for though ingratitude, or unmerited infult, juftly incurs our very ferious DISPLEASURE, they ought not to excite lafting RESENTMENT towards the guilty individual, but only fuch honeft INDIGNATION against the vice, as may guard us from all feduction to fimilar offences. A wife man, however, will make hafte to forgive, becaufe RESENTMENT is a painful fenfation, and he defires to feel himself at ease; a great man pardons readily, because he finds few things worthy of his ferious and deep RESENTMENT; and a pious MAN will never refent at all, reflecting how much he has himself to be forgiven. REVENGEFUL AND VINDICTIVE, THE first of these words expreffes the diabolical quality oftener as an adjective, I think; the fecond is commonly used adverbially, which difference alone hinders their exact fynonymy. Catiline is a fad REVENGEFUL fellow, fays one, and of a temper fo cruelly VINDICTIVE, he lets no offence pafs by him unrequited-thinking perhaps to put himfelf in the place of Heaven, and difpenfe punishments at his own pleasure;, not reflecting that he who made man can alone distinguish guilt from error in many cases; that to to him is juftly referved the privilege of chaftifing; and that from his happiness and his perfection no creature can be more diftantly removed, than he who is difpofed to be VINDICTIVE towards a companion in frailty, and of a REVENGEFUL temper while ranging through the walks of common life. 'Tis charged on foreigners that they seek REVENGE; and thofe philofophers who are willing to confider Virtue and Vice as ambulatory, lay the fault upon a warm climate. In Italy, however, 'tis merely the mildness of their criminal law, fo flow to punish, so eafy to elude, that leaves every man to be judge and executioner in his own caufe; and how an Englishman would endure to hear of his only fon's murder by the hand of a worthless rival, will I hope and truft never be known in Great Britain, where, confcious that his country will make a dreadful example of his injurer, he has only to lament a loss so heavy and grievous. Were the murderer fuffered filently to escape, or be openly protected at the door of a church, or in the palace of a rich nobleman, we fhould fee if John Bull were lefs VINDICTIVE than Pietro the Italian: I fear he would, like the last named, watch the rogue out of his lurking-hole, and ftab him when he could. It does indeed appear that one fet of people are little better or worse than another fet-by nature as we call it. "Tis the influence or neglect of religion and the laws that operates upon |