10. I will purfue, I'll overtake, Deep will I drench my Sword in Blood, 11. Then didft thou make thy Wind to blow, Thy Foes o'erwhelm'd, like pond'rous Lead, 12. What GOD of those who bear the Name, Can the loud Voice of boasting Fame To equal Honours raife? How glorious is thy Holiness! What Tongue thy Wonders can express, 13. Thy chofen Sons from Slav'ry freed, And Edom trembling food, 14. Thy Hand, O LORD, and fpecial Grace, Shall fafe conduct the fav'rite Race To Canaan's promis'd Reft: Jor Jordan fhall backward roll his Tide, 15. The Foes of Ifrael on their Shore, Well may their Hearts diffolve with Fear, 16. Thou shalt reward thy People's Toil, 17. Sing, Ifrael, fing, thou echoing Shore The LORD his Throne maintains: The BEGGAR's ITY the forrows of a poor PTY ΡΕΤΙΤΙΟΝ. old man, Whofe trembling limbs have borne him to your Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span, Thefe Thefe tatter'd cloaths my poverty bespeak, Yon house, erected on the rifing ground, Hard is the fate of the infirm and poor! Oh! take me to your hofpitable dome; Keen blows the wind, and piercing is the cold! Should I reveal the fources of my grief, Heaven fends misfortunes; why fhould we repine! A little farm was my paternal lot, Then like the lark I fprightly hail'd the morn; My My daughter, once the comfort of my age, My tender wife, sweet soother of my care! Pity the forrows of a poor old man, Whofe trembling limbs have borne him to your door, Endeavour to please, and you can scarcely fail to TH pleafe. CHESTERFIELD. HE Means of pleafing vary according to time, place, and perfon; but the general rule is the trite one. Endeavour to please, and you will infallibly please to a certain Degree: conftantly fhew a defire to please, and you will engage People's felf-love in your Interest; a moft powerful Advocate. This, as indeed almost every Thing elfe, depends on Attention. Be therefore attentive to the most trifling Thing that paffes where you are; have, as the vulgar Phrafe is, your Eyes and your Ears always about you. It is a very foolish, though a very common faying, "I really did not mind it," or, "I was **thinking of quite another thing at that time." The proper anfwer to fuch ingenious excuses, and which admits of no reply, is, Why did you not mind it? you was prefent when it was faid or done. Oh! but you may fay, you was thinking of quite another thing: if fo, why was you not in quite another place proper for that important other thing, which you say you was thinking of? But you will fay, perhaps, that the company was fo filly, that it did not deferve your attention: that, I am fure, is the saying of a filly man; for a man of sense knows that there is no company to filly, that fome ufe may not be made of it by attention. Let your addrefs, when you firft come into company, be modest, but without the least bashfulness or fheepifhnefs; fteady, without impudence; and unembarraffed, as if you were in your own room. This is a difficult point to hit, and therefore deferves great attention; nothing but a long ufage in the World, and in the beft Company, can poffibly give it. A young man, without knowledge of the world, when he first goes into a fashionable company, where most are his fuperiors, is commonly either annihilated by Bashfulness, or, if he roufes and lashes himself up to what he only thinks a modest affurance, he runs into impudence and abfurdity, and confequently offends, inftead of pleafing. Have always, as much as you can, that gentleness of manner, which never fails to make favourable impreffions, provided it be equally free from an infipid Smile, or a pert Smirk. Care |