and thus the "faber quisque fortunæ suæ," of the poet, though not to be conceded as true with respect to general felicities, may be conceded in respect of reputation.

Certainly discreet followers, loving relatives, kind companions, and faithful servants of household, do help much to reputation; and like unto the progrefsive undulations of the water from the first impulse of the pebble, do gradually extend themselves unto great circles of society.

Now the winning of honour is by the spreading of and revealing of a man's vertue and worth ; and it is then most truely delectable when it accordeth with the abiding testimony of a man's own conscience, in the final judgement which is given when the court of his conscience is cleared of intruding pafsions and prejudices, and fenced about with the ministers of impartial self examination and justice.

The substratum or plattform for this grand portion of the art of life ought to be dilligently laid in youth, by teaching children to labour for a goodly reputation even in the nursery, and not to bottom their consequence and importance upon the advantages of their situation.

In early youth men ought to be taught from examples, which are ever at hand, that admiration goeth hand in hand with the display of those qualities in others which are least subject to common attainment; as wisdom, courage, magnanimity in friendship, or in suffering, and abstinence from great delights that are inconsistent with virtue.

That Diogenes in his tub was greater than Alexander at Persepolis, and that he who needeth least, from other men, approacheth nearest unto celestial

natures.

These noble foundations being well established, there will suddenly follow an aspiration after an honest function, fit to afford gain sufficient for the independance of the man, and the obtaining of this godlike station.

But when this station hath been compafsed, the masterpiece of our art consisteth in keeping it, by fhunning the rocks of too great enterprise, or the fhallows of vain glory.

Certainly it is no small device towards this purpose that we should render other men satisfied with themselves, and with their own condition, that they plot not to abate our attainments or pretensions.

Men who use this stratagem, or who thus comport themselves from the kindlynefs of their natures, are the demagogues of social intercourse; and all men wish them to be mounted, because they can ride along with them, and seem to be foremost in their own opinion.

There be also a reward that accompanyeth the exercise of this urbanity when a man praiseth that in others in which he himself doth excel. For as Pliny saith very wittily, "In commending another, thus you do yourself right; for he that you com mend must be either superior to you in that which you commend, or inferior. If he be inferior, you doe but blazon the more your own attainments, and

June 19 if he be superior, and yet not commended, your own pretensions are exceedingly degraded."

But seeing that all these modes of cefsion or dereliction of glory to others, have in their root a desire of honour, we must especially guard against the intromifsion of that vain glory which defeateth its own purposes by exciting envy and detraction in others. True it is indeed of fame in learning, that the flight will be slow without some feathers of ostentation; and that those who have decryed it the most, have nevertheless shown their subjection to its power. "Qui de contemnenda gloria libros scribunt, nomen suum inscribunt." Certainly vain glory helpeth to perpetuate a man's memory; and vertue was never so beholden to humane nature as to dispense with receiving its due at second hand; neither peradventure had the fame of Cicero, Seneca, Plinius Secundus, and other vain glorious men born her age so well, if it had not been joined with some vanity in their speeches and writings, like unto varnish that maketh cielings not only to fhine but endure.

But these are examples of a fortunate rarity, and not to be rafhly imitated with impunity.

It is best, with innocence and utility to our fellow men, and to the body politic, to study and to practise the art of a happy life in gliding gently along its stream, without using much of the oars of flattery, or setting up too much sail of vain glorious pretension.

In this however we must be oftentimes guided by occasions that fall out, wherein men of obtuser or

sharper wits will require greater or lesser dozes of legitimate praise.

If a fausse couche, or abortion of honest praise fhall fall out from peevish humours, or high delica, cy in the receiver, a super-fætation of amiable concealed praise may bring our purpose to maturity; as once happened to a courtier in my hearing, who having pushed his kind encomium on his man to dissatisfaction and disgust, immediately exclaimed, That he thought himself happy in the friendship of a sage who was above the reach and magic of legitimate fame. Whereupon his man flew into his arms, and embraced him, as one at the very top of the pyramid of sentiment, who fhould have discerned this acmè of perfection.

He that is only real had need have exceeding great parts of virtue; as the stone had need to be rich that is set without foil. But if a man mark it well, it is in praise and commendation of men as it is in getting and in gains; light gains make heavy purses; many pennies make a pound; for light gains. come thick, whereas great come but now and then : So it is true, that small matters of kindness often repeated, win the greatest commendation, whereas great ones come only upon festivals.

***When a man has virtuously and honestly gained a goodly reputation, let him not think of trading upon it as a stock; but with godly sincerity let him lay it at the foot of the altar of vertue, and

June 19. prefs forward to the mark of the high calling that is beyond the grave, where only he can receive the due reward of integrity and benevolence towards men, or of piety towards God.

HINTS FOR ESTABLISHING A SEMINARY OF EDUCATION ON A NEW PLAN.

Continued from p. 168.

In the illustration above given, it has been suppo sed that one boy acquired the whole of the languages there taught, and that they succeeded each other in a certain rotation; but that this was merely for the sake of illustration. It would be for the public benefit that any pupil might study only one or more of the languages, independent of all the rest, or might begin with such of them as he inclined*. It is only necefsary to remark, that what

* From what has been said, it will appear that the houses of the different preceptors in the gymnasium, may be considered in a great measure as boarding houses, in which pupils could be conveniently lodged and attended to, while prosecuting such branches of education as the parents of each respectively inclined; with this difference, however, from ordinary boarding houses, that the pupils would of necefsity be obliged to acquire the particular language spoken in that house, and that their health and morals wonld be more attended to than in ordinary cases. With that view it would be necessary to have the preceptors themselves subjected to certain regulations that they could not transgrefs, under the inspection and controul of a superior.

The dangers which young men who are born to high rank and af fluent fortune run, of being early led astray, were hinted at in the