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The merchant reckons for good times, wlien he has a good ſale for his goods, diſpoſes of them quickly; when his money doubles and trebles itſelf,‘and he is thereby ſet in a condition to ſhew his grandeur by good living and extravagance, i

Läwyers find good times, when people quarrel, ſcold, aMult, ſtrike, and wrong one another; when Wives‘and buſbands run one from another, ſo that they get rich law-ſuüits.

Pradtitioners- of Phyſic have good harveſts and good times when‘epidemical diſeaſes and the imall-po-- prevail.

Bleeders wait impatiently for the agreèable ſpring, when peo- ple get themſelves cupped and bled to prevent fickneſſzs.

Yea the heavy taxes with which the public are toaded, are good times for tax-gatherers, clerks of the commiſlioners, trea- furers, and the like.

And by taking 2 review, after this introduQion of all ranks of people, it will be found, that the good times, which each in- dividual forms after his own imagination, will always be accom- panied with a great lofs to the whole community. Where one is 4 gainer, there’ are ten loſers. Thus, on cool refle@ion, it will be found, that there is lictle appearance to warrant the ex- pedtation of good times, In general, There will be an alteration indeed—good and evi] muf{t change one with another; the worlg, and Wwhat is in it, will always be imperfe&. The wiſe M23, who 1s not an îdle ſpectator on the theatre of the creation, en-

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joys time as it comes: he Prepares himſelf duly in good times for

bad; in bad times, he hopes for better; and in this manner he enjoys a continual fatisſaction, which makes life ſweet to him. Happy is that man, who endeavours to ſtudy this wiſdom from

is early age, and learns to know the folly of thoſe who grieve themſelves with unneceflary wiſhes, flatter themſelves with vain hopes, and thereby become a burden to themſelves,

Far the Commercial and Agricultural Magazine. WHOLESOME SCRAPS,

BY DR. FRANKLIN.

HOSE who know moſt, are' moſt deſirous of knowledge. The moft virtuous are the moſt deſirous of improvement in virtue; on the contrary, the ignorant think themſelves wiſe enough.“The vicious are, in their own opinion, good enough. In our endeavours to PEOmMOte Me publie aoods we Mould re- member, that though we may not accompliſh all that we propoſe, ſill we have employed ourſelves to 800d purpoſe, and will not fail of our reward, even if we ſhould of ſucceſs., Let no man complain of the ſhortneſs of life, but he who can

lay; he has never miſpent one bour, Hear the accuſed, before you condemn. y

He who knows the world, will not be tóo baſhful; He who knows himſelf, vill not be impudent,

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