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the reft of the world. Let not our apparel be fplendid or fhewy, nor yet mean or fordid. Let not our plate be emboffed with gold; but let us not imagine, that the mere want of fuch expenfive plate is a fufficient proof of our frugality. Let us endeavour to live a better life, not merely a life contrary to that of the vulgar; other wife, instead of conciliating the favour of those whom we wish to reform, we shall excite their averfion, and drive them from our company; we shall alfo deter them from imitating us in any thing, when they are afraid that they are to imitate us in every thing.

The first advantages which philosophy promises are, a juft fenfe of the common rights of mankind, humanity, and a fociable difpófition; from which

advantages, fingularity and diffimilar manners will entirely feclude us. Let us beware, left thofe peculiarities by which we hope to excite the admiraton, fhould expofe us to the ridicule and averfion, of mankind.

Our object is to live according to nature; but to torture oar bodies, to abhor cleanliness in our perfons, when attended with no trouble, or to affect a cynical filthinefs in our food; this fure is living contrary to nature. As it is a mark of luxury to hunt after delicacies, to reject the common unexpenfive comforts of life is a degree of madness. Our ftoic philofophy requires us to be frugal, not to mortify ourselves; but there is fuch a thing as an elegant frugality. This moderation is what I would recommend.'

An Account of HEDSOR LODGE, in Buckinghamshire, the Seat of Lord BOSTON.

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EDSOR LODGE, the elegant feat of the right honourable Frederic Irby, lord Boston, is delightfully fituated in a village of the fame name, between Maidenhead and Beaconsfield. It is feated on a lofty eminence on the banks of the river Thames, to the north of Cliefden House and Taploe. The grounds are formed by nature into high floping hills and deep vallies, with a great variety of wood well diftributed. The declivities of the hills, toward the west, are steep; and, in the fouth, near the Thames, is a chalky precipice, whence the ground rifes boldly to the fummit, on which this noble manfion appears confpicuous. The views from this are extensive, the eye ranging over a large tract of country, enriched by villages, feats, and a variety of other fcenery. Fertile meadows, through which the river glides, occupy the fpace between; and the hills on the weft, gradually diminishing, feem to vanish into the horizon. These remind one of the poet's rural walk:

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Greatest, Leaf, and Mean State of the BAROMETER, THERMOMETER, and HYGROMETER, in the Year 1793.

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OBSERVATIONS on the DISEASES in December 1793.

HE fmallpox continued to prevail very much in the beginning of the month, but in a much milder form; the puftules were in general diftinct, and though the weather was warm for the feafon of the year, yet the putrid and malignant fymptoms had nearly disappeared: toward the latter part of the month, it became much lefs frequent. All the difcales of the laft month had a putrid tendency, which was not the cafe in this: quite at its clofe truly inflammatory difeafes began to occur, fuch as pleurifics, with acute rheumatism; rheumatic affections were indeed common in the early part of the month, but they were unaccompanied with fever, and were more generally confined to the head and face: warmth, with the application of bliters behind the ears, proved in general the best remedies. Apoplexies were rather frequent, and likewife paralytic affections, which proved in many inftances fatal to fuch as were advanced in years, or who had been fubject to former attacks. The fcarlet fever was ftill occafionally met with, as were the mealles, but both were very mild, and required hide aftance from medicine. Athmatic people began to feel the change of the feafon; and perions in general labouring under difeafes of the lungs, experienced an aggravation of all their fymptoms.

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