tending to improve the morals, reform the loose and vicious habits in young and tender minds, and set vice and virtue in their proper colours. No kind of writing can be better calculated to form the minds of youth, and give them a more just conception of things, than what is contained in the following pages; and if carefully perused and treasured in the heart, may make them wiser and better for such instructions.

Such is the hope and desire of

THE EDITOR.

ATHER instruction from thy youth up, so shalt thou find wisdom till thine old age.

A wise son heareth his father's instruction, but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pluck out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Whoso loveth instruction, loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind; discretion

the key to it; and it illustrates all other learning, as the lapidary doth unpolished diamonds.

The whole universe is your library; conversation, living studies; and remarks upon them are your best tutors.

An illiterate person is the world in darkness, and like to Polyphemus's statue with the eye out.

I envy none that know more than myself, but pity them that know less.

The conversation of wise men is the best academy of breeding and learning. It was not the school, but the company of Epicurus, that made Metrodorus, Hermachus, and Polyænus so famous.

To hear the discourse of wise men delights us, and their company inspires us with noble and generous contemplations.

Courteous behaviour and prudent communication are the most becoming ornaments to a young man; with which he may best be furnished by timely education, and the virtuous example of his parents and governors.

Jeer not others upon any occasion. If they be foolish, God hath denied them understanding; if they be vicious, you ought to pity, not revile them; if deformed, God framed their bodies, and will you

scorn His workmanship? Are you wiser than your Creator? If poor, poverty was designed for a motive to charity, not to contempt: you cannot see what riches they have within. Especially despise not your aged parents, if they be come to their second childhood, and be not so wise as formerly; they are yet your parents-your duty is not diminished.

If you desire to be wiser, think not yourself wise enough. He that instructs one that thinks himself wise enough, hath a fool to his scholar; he that thinks himself wise enough to instruct himself, hath a fool to his master.

It is a most noble and commendable design of children descended of mean parents, by their industry to become men of virtue and excelling parts, which render them equal, in the opinion of the prudent, to those of honourable descent.

Learning is the temperance of youth, the comfort of old age, and the only sure guide to honour and preferment.

One of eminent learning said that such as would excel in arts, must excel in industry.

Quintilian recommends to all parents the timely education of their children, advising them to train them up in learning, good manners, and virtuous

exercises, since we commonly retain those things in age which we entertained in our youth.

Speusippus caused the pictures of Joy and Gladness to be set round about his school, to signify that the business of education ought to be rendered as pleasant as may be.

Those are the best instructors that teach in their lives, and prove their words by their actions.

Unless there be a strict hand over us, in the instruction of our youth, we are in danger of being lost for ever. He that spares the rod, hates the child; and the severity of an early discipline is one of the greatest obligations that a son can have to a tender parent.

Wicked dispositions should be checked betimes, for when they once come to habits they grow incurable. More people go to the gibbet for want of early instruction, discipline, and correction, than from any incurable depravity of nature.

Young years make their accounts only of the glistening show of beauty; but grey heirs respect only the perfect substance of virtue.

The great business of a man is to improve his mind, govern his manners, and lead a holy life.

An industrious, religious, and virtuous education of