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THE RAMBLER.

N° 109.

lest the hours which he was obliged to spend on horseback should be tattled away without regard to literature.

An Italian philosopher expressed in his motto, that time was his estate; an estate, indeed, which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labours of industry, and satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie waste by negligence, to be over-run with noxious plants, or laid out for shew, rather than for use.

Numb. 109. Tuesday, April 2, 1751.

Gratum est, quod patriæ civem, populoque dedisti,
Si facis ut patriæ sit idoneus, utilis agis,
Utilis et beliorum pacis rebus agendis.
Plurimum enim intererit, quibus artibus, et quibus hunc tu
Moribus institutas.

Juv.

Grateful the gift! a member to the state,
If you that member useful shall create;
Train'd both to war, and when the war shall cease,
As fond, as fit t'emprove the arts of peace.
For much it boots which way you train your boy,
The hopeful object of your future joy.

Elphinston.
To the RAMBLER
SIR,

THOUGH you seem to have taken a view sufficiently extensive of the miseries of life, and have employed much of your speculation on mournful subjects, you have not yet exhausted the whole stock of human infelicity. There is still a species of wretchedness which escapes your obser-

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