"periods? and when thofe principles and powers, " which at first cemented and put them toge"ther, have performed their feveral Revolu❝tions, they fall back.". "Where is Troy, and Mycene, and Thebes, and "Delos, and Perfepolis, and Agrigentum ?"What is become of Nineveh and Babylon, of "Cyzicum, and Mitylene? The fairest towns "that ever the fun rofe upon, are now no more: "the names only are left, and those [for many "of them are wrong fpelt] are falling them"felves by piece-meals to decay, and in length "of time will be forgotten, and involved with every thing in a perpetual night: the world "itfelf-muft must come to an end. "Returning out of Afia, when I failed from "Egina towards Megara, I began to view the 66 country round about. Egina was behind me, "Megara was before, Pyræus on the right hand, "Corinth on the left.What flourishing "towns now proftrate upon the earth! Alas! "alas! faid I to myself, that man should disturb "his foul for the lofs of a child, when fo much "as this lies awfully buried in his prefence.❝ Remember, "Remember, faid I to myself again-remem "ber thou art a man.". "My fon is dead!—fo much the better ;"tis a fhame in fuch a tempest to have but one "anchor." "But he is gone for ever from us!—be it fo. "He is got from under the hands of his bar"ber before he was bald-he is but rifen from 66 a feaft before he was furfeited-from a bandrunken." quet before he had got "The Thracians wept when a child was "born-and feasted and made merry when a (6 man went out of the world; and with reafon. "Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the 66 gate of envy after it,-it unlooses the chain "of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task "into another man's hands.” "Shew me the man, who knows what life is, "who dreads it, and I'll fhew thee a prifoner "who dreads his liberty." THE END. Printed by C. ETHERINGTON, No. 3, Peterborough-Court, Fleet-Street. Just Published for the Improvement of Youth of both Sexes, in two Parts, the fourth Edition, with the Head of the Author, Price 4s. 6d. fewed. THE BEAUTIES OF JOHNSON: CONSISTING OF MAXIMS AND OBSERVATIONS, MORAL, CRITICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON, And arranged in Alphabetical Order, after the Manner of the Duke de la Roche-Foucault's Maxims. "We frequently fall into error and folly, not because "the true principles of action are not known, but "because for a time they are not remembered: he 66 may therefore be justly numbered among the bene"factors of mankind, who CONTRACTS THE GREAT "RULES OF LIFE INTO SHORT SENTENCES, that may "be eafily impreffed on the memory, and taught by "frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind." RAMBLER. [Alfo |