Letters On the Improvement of the Mind Addressed to a Young Lady
Letters On the Improvement of the Mind Addressed to a Young Lady
Mrs Hester Chapone
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I would there!' . D to have always foine objects in purfuic \vorthy of it, that it may not be er. GroiTed by fuch as are in theinfelves u. I . Vortli a moment's anxiety. It is chiefly in the do- . Line of life, when amufemer. Ts fail, and when the more importunate paffions fubfide, that this infir ty is oblerved to grow upon us and perhaps will feldom fail to do fo, unlefs carefully watched and counteracted by reafon. We mull then en- deavour to fubititute fome purfuits in the place of rhofe, w...hich caa ody engage us in the beginning of our courfe. The purfuic of glory and happinefs i. I another life, by every means of improwng and exr:k- ing our own minds, becomes more and more inte- . Efting to us, the nearer we draw to the end of ail uiblunary enjoyments. Reading, relleclion, ratio - ; }nverTiition, and, above all, convening God, by prayer and meditation, may prefcrve us '. Oin Uiklog that anxious interell in r J}Q little com- H 2 forts 32 O:i the Government of the Temper. forts and conveniences of our remaining days, which ufualiy gives birth to fo 41111 ch fretfulnefs in old people.
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