ftrengthened by the addition of a new member, and should continue to hold the first place in the fociety of a young married woman. If she is so happy as to approve, and be approved by, her husband's family, her love for him will incorporate them in her esteem with her own. She will naturally become the center of their mutual attachments and regard; while her amiable and endearing influence extending to each individual, fhall unite them all in one complete and happy circle.

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OECONOMY.
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HIS is a fubject which depends fo entirely upon circumstances, that, like the cameleon, it must neceffarily take its hue from the furrounding objects: but though obliged to vary its appearance from its different fituations, it has ftill fome fixed and determinate principles which conftitute its effence, and preferve its name in every condition of life. Oeconomy may be compared to an ifthmus placed between a conti

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nent and a peninfula, between profufion and parfimony, bearing equal relation to both. It is a line drawn by the hand of Reafon upon the human mind to restrain the thoughtless excess of extravagance, too often mifcalled generofity, and at the fame time to fet bounds to the meaneft of all vices, avarice.

NEITHER rank nor riches can place any person above œconomy; and perhaps those who poffefs fuch advantages in the highest degree, have the greatest occafion for the practice

practice of this humble virtue.--"Where much is given, much is required,” as well in the literal as the figurative fenfe of the expreffion; and when those who are bleffed with affluence confider themselves, as they are bound to do, but as ftewards for the poor, they muft furely reflect that diffipation and extravagance are not the use, but the abuse, of that store which has been thus entrusted to their care, and that fuch mifapplication cannot entitle them to fair acquittance from the great Giver · of all good.

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BUT were we to confine our views even to this dim fpot, we fhall find that economy is, in every fituation of life, a requifite and neceffary duty incumbent onhuman nature. They must be very young indeed, who have not heard

"Of numbers, once in Fortune's lap

high-fed,

"Who now folicit the cold hand of Charity!"

And what must then be the feelings of a generous heart, which from its indolence, or the vile indulgence of fome fond caprice, has become felf-deprived of that tranfcendant.