An ague, palfy, and fits of gout have fometimes been banished from the like cause; and the fudden out-cry of fire in the dead of night, has been known to reftore the limbs in those lame and bed-ridden for many years. However ftrange it may appear, history informs us, that the son of Crafus, who before had been dumb, when he faw the King his Father about to be slain in battle by an uplifted fword, cried out with vehemence, Soldier, hold thy hand, thou kil'ft the King! These are the formidable effects of terror, and if there are inftances of their curing fome diseases, many more might be mentioned to fhew their fatal power, by producing apoplexy, convulfions, or death. Anger, or a fenfe of injury fuftained, produces effects fomewhat fimilar to terror, but not in fo violent a degree. When this paffion is attended with revenge, the heart palpitates, the hand trembles, the eyes flash with rage, and the countenance alternately becomes red and pale. Nothing Nothing however is more falfe and inconfiftent with the philofophy of the paffions than the general opinion that paleness always indicates revenge, for it is as frequently occafioned by fear, exceffive joy, or exquifite fenfibility, as from that diabolical feeling; and it would be easy to prove that the fame caufe which creates paleness of the face, at one time, might in the very fame person, occafion it to become florid at another, according to the degree of strength or weakness then prevailing in the body. Anger has been obferved to occafion profufion of Bile with fickness, vomitings and pain in the bowels. In those of plethoric constitutions, it has produced Apoplexy, Delirium or Madness; but on the contrary, fuch as were of a cold, phlegmatic temperament and fubject to melancholy, dropfy, de intermittent fevers, have fometimes been remarkably relieved by its effects. The paffion of Love, of all others, is moft difficult to be defined; fo various are its affections and invincible is its power, according to age, fex and temperament; or as it is attended by Hope, and Fear, Grief or Joy. Whilft one pines in filence and fits like Patience on a monument, fmiling " at Grief," another becomes frantic, and defpairing of what alone could make life defirable, is driven to fuicide and feeks refuge in the grave! Love, like the infant bloffom of the fpring foftered by the genial ray, is nurfed by indulgence; but cold indifference or neglect blaft the promised fruit, and chill it to death. Many inftances have occurred, where thofe affected by this bewitching paffion, have become epileptic and hysterical, or fell into a nervous fever, confumption, or melancholy; and I have known some cases where these diseases, thus introduced, became mortal in the conclufion. In mutual Love, when Hope prefents her nectar'd cup, 'tis replete with more than the fweets of Hybla: Blefs'd infatuation, fu preme preme transport, too exquifite for mortal fenfe-a banquet for the Gods! Bleft as th' immortal Gods, is he, 66 The youth that fondly fits by thee, "Twas this depriv'd my foul of rest, My bofom glow'd, a fudden flame My ears with hollow murmurs rung. In dewy damps my limbs were chill'd, "My blood with gentle horrors thrill'd; "My feeble pulse forgot to play, I fainted, funk, and died way." But when Despair, accompanied with his fad, and fickly train of jealoufies, doubts, and fears, adminifters his ebon chalice; beware the tafte-'tis naufeous as the dregs of gall, and fraught with Adder's poison! If fuch are the injuries brought on the conftitution by irregularity and excess of the the paffions; how much should it be the care of rational beings to guard against their infults, and oppose their malignant influence with virtuous and becoming resolution? Happiness and Mifery are the lights and fhades which fill up the outlines in the portrait of human life. Every man naturally endeavours to attain one, and avoid the other, but by very different means, and often difproportioned to that end. We frequently deceive ourselves in the purfuit and enjoyment of our wishes. Extravagance of hope ends in disappointment, and even a series of pleasurable events, at laft lofe their power. To give them true relish, and make them lafting, the mind must refer to some former, painful fenfation. Thus a perfon who always poffeffed health, is fcarcely fenfible of its value; but when loft, let it again return, and he will blefs the means which restored it. None enjoy riches fo much as thofe who have been at great pains to attain them, and have tafted the |