fhrinks not on the first attack ; it will bear many fhoeks before it be entirely vanquifhed. As it contends not for victory, but for the prize, it will not display itself in the vain arts of elocution, but in the more powerful eloquence of action; it will leave nothing undone that can prove its fincerity, but it will not boaft, even to its object, of what it has done; much lefs will it vaunt its merits to any other confidant, or complain to the world of the unkind return it has met with. THERE THERE are fuch a variety of circumftances which may difturb the happiness of the marriage. ftate, that it is impoffible to fpecify them all; but as a virtuous woman will confider the lofs of her hufband's affection as the greateft calamity that can befal her, her duty and prudence will, before the evil happens, upon every occafion fupply rules of conduct to herself; and the reliance fhe will neceffarily have upon the tendernefs of his attachment to her, joined to the fincerity of her's to him, will fupport her through every difficulty which accident, misfortune, or even im prudence, may have brought upon them. She will fay, with Prior's Emma, Thy rife of fortune did I only wed, :And Fortune's favour fills the fwelling fails, But would forfake the bark and make the fhore, When the winds whiftle, and the tempefts roar ? No, No, Henry, no! one facred oath has tyed Our loves, one deftiny our lives fhall A guide, Nor wild, nor deep, our common way divide. THIS is the natural language of conjugal affection, this the fulfilling of the marriage vow, where felf is loft in a ftill dearer object, where tenderness is heightened by diftrefs, and attachment cemented even by the tears of forrow. Such an union of fouls may brave the น power of Time; and I truft, that Death itfelf fhall not be able to destroy it. D 2 TEM TEMPER. T has been already remarked, I that a parity of temper is IT one of the principal requifites in matrimonial happiness; and yet it is poffible that too great a finilarity of difpofition may, in fome cafes, render both parties wretched. For inftance, if two perfons of a gay and careless turn of mind should happen to be united, both will think themfelves entitled to purfue their joint or feparate amufements, without being encumbered with any attention to domestic economy, till even |