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 us; we fancy others must be more happy because they are more rich, healthy, or have fewer enemies. We should think of those below us, who are in poor-houses, or prisons, that are either in extreme poverty, or blind, lame, dumb, insane, or under public disgrace.

3dly. Because we will not be satisfied with simplicity. Let us consider how few are our real wants, if we have our liberty, and our health, we have the principal requisites of natural happiness; and if besides this, we have grace and the influences of the Spirit, we may be called happy persons.

AS Providence has made the human soul always impatient for novelty, and struggling for something yet unenjoyed, with unwearied, progression, the world seems to be eminently adapted to this disposition of the mind; it is formed to raise expectations by constant vicissitudes, and to obviate satiety by perpetual change.

2. Wherever we turn our eyes, we find something to revive our curiosity, and engage our attention. In the dusk of the morning we watch the rising of the sun, and we see the day diversify the clouds, and open new prospects to its gradual advance. After a few hours, the shades begin to lengthen and the light declines, till the sky is resigned to a multitude of shining orbs different from each other in magnitude and splendour.

3. The earth varies its appearance as we move upon it; the woods offer their shades, and the fields their harvests, the hills flatter with an