fhalt look round upon all that is prefent with difguft; anticipate all that is future, with dread; and retain thy fenfibility, only for pain and anguifh. This time appears to thee, to be far diftant-but alas ! thou art deceived, it approaches with irrefiftible rapidity, and is, therefore, at hand that which draws near fo faft, can never be remote; and the prefent, for ever flying, is remote already; even while we speak it is paft, and it returns no more. Let the prefent, therefore, be light in thy estimation; tread the path of virtue, however rugged, with perfeverance, and fix thine eye up-. on futurity. The |