learnt from his ftory, till about the forty-fifth year of his age, when upon fome military fervices ill requited, and meeting at the same time with a disappointment in the tenderest of paffions, he abandoned the sword and the fex together, and took fanctuary, not so much in his convent as in himself.

I feel a damp upon my fpirits, as I am going to add, that in my last return through Calais, upon inquiring after Father Lorenzo, I heard he had been dead near three months, and was buried, not in his convent, but, according to his defire, in a little cemetery belonging to it, about two leagues off: I had a ftrong defire to fee where they had laid him-when upon pulling out his little horn- box, as I fat by his grave, and plucking up a nettle or two at the head of it, which had no bufinefs to grow there, they all ftruck together fo forcibly upon my affections, that I burst into a flood of tears-but I am as weak as a woman; and I beg the world not to fimile, but pity me.

3. JOURNEY, PAGE, 34.

FELLOW

FELLOW FEELING.

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HERE is something in our nature which engages us to take part in every accident to which man is subject, from what cause soever it may have happened; but in fuch calamities as a man has fallen into through mere misfortune, to be charged upon no fault or difcretion of himfelf, there is fomething then fo truly interefting, that at the firft fight we generally make them our own, not altogether from a reflection that they might have been or may be fo, but oftener from a certain generofity and tenderness of nature which difpofes us for compaffion, abftracted from all confideration of felf: fo that without any obfervable act of the will, we fuffer with the unfortunate, and feel a weight upon our fpirits we know not why, on feeing the most common inftances of their diftrefs. But where the spectacle is uncommonly tragical, and complicated with many circumstances of mifery, the mind is then taken captive at once, and were it inclined to it, has no power to make resistance, but furrender it felf to all the tender emotions of pity and deep concern. So that when one confiders this friendly part of our nature, without looking farther, one would think it impoffible for than to look upon mifery without finding himself in fome meafure attached to the intereft of him who fuffers it-I fay, one would think it impoffible

impoffible-for there are fome tempers-how fhall I defcribe them?-formed either of fuch impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual felfishness to fuch an utter infenfibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow creatures, as if they were not partakers of the fame nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the fpecies. SERMON III, P. 43.

THE UN MERCIFUL MAN.

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OOK into the world-how often do you behold a fordid wretch, whofe ftrait heart is open to no man's affliction, taking fhelter behind an appearance of piety, and putting on the garb of religion, which none but the merciful and compaffionate have a title to wear. Take notice with what fanctity he goes to the end of his days, in the fane felfifh track in which he at first set out-turning neither to the right-hand nor to the left-but plods on pores, all his life long upon the ground, as if afraid to look up, left peradventure he should fee aught which might turn him one moment out of that strait line where intereft is carrying him;-or if, by chance, he fumbles upon a hapless object of diftrefs, which threatens fuch a difafter to him-devoutly paffing by on the other fide, as if unwilling to truft him

felf

felf to the impreffions of nature, or hazard the inconveniences which pity might lead him into upon the occafion,

'N benevolent natures, the impulfe to pity is fo fudden, that, like inftruments of mufic, which obey the touch-the objects which are fitted to excite fuch impreffions, work fo inftantaneous an effect, that you would think the will was fcarce concerned, and that the mind was altogether paffive in the fympathy which her own goodness has excited. The truth is the foul is generally in fuch cafes fo bufily taken up, and wholly engroffed by the object of pity, that she does not attend to her own operations, or take leifure to examine the principles upon which the aas. SERMON III. P. 51.

COMPASSION.

N generous fpirits, compaffion is fometimes more than a balance for felf-preservation.

God

God certainly interwove that friendly foftnefs in our nature to be a check upon too great a propensity towards self-love.

SERMON V. P. 89.

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SLAN DER.

Fthe many revengful, covetous, false, and ill-natured perfons which we complain of in the world, though we all join in the cry against them, what man amongst us fingles out himself as a criminal, or ever once takes it into his head that he adds to the number?-or where is there a man fo bad, who would not think it the hardest and most unfair imputation, to have. any of thofe particular vices laid to his charge?

If he has the fymptoms never fo ftrong upon him, which he would pronounce infallible in another, they are indications of no fuch malady in himfelf-he fees what no one elfe fees, fome fecret and flattering circumstances in his favour, which no doubt make a wide difference betwixt his cafe, and the parties which he condemns.

What other man fpeaks fo often and vehemently against the vice of pride, fets the weaknefs of it in a more odious light, or is more hurt