Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.

Where wealth and freedom reign contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

If we look round the world, there seem to be not above six distinct varieties in the human species, each of which is strongly marked, and speaks the kind seldom to have mixed with any other. But there is nothing in the shape, nothing in the faculties, that shows their coming from different originals; and the varieties of climate, of nourishment, and custom, are sufficient to produce every change.