. Early lessons .. . happeningto pass by, and hearing his cries, ran up to the pond, andsaid as well as he could, I will help you out, little boy; and then instantly plunged in, and brought him safe onshore, without hurting a hair of his head. When we see any one in trouble, we should imitate thisnoble creature, and if we can, try and help him out. INGRATITUDE. INGRATITUDE is a sin so shameful, that there never wasa man found, who would own himself guilty of it. In-gratitude perverts all the measures of religion and society,by making it dangerous to be charitable and good natured;however, it i
. Early lessons .. . happeningto pass by, and hearing his cries, ran up to the pond, andsaid as well as he could, I will help you out, little boy; and then instantly plunged in, and brought him safe onshore, without hurting a hair of his head. When we see any one in trouble, we should imitate thisnoble creature, and if we can, try and help him out. INGRATITUDE. INGRATITUDE is a sin so shameful, that there never wasa man found, who would own himself guilty of it. In-gratitude perverts all the measures of religion and society,by making it dangerous to be charitable and good natured;however, it is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude, thanto be wanting in charity W the distressed. He that promotes gratitude pleads the cause both of Godand niin, for without it, we can neither be sociable norreligious. An ungrateful man is a reproach to the creation ; anexception from all the visible world; neither the heavensabove, nor the earth beneath, affording anything like him. THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER. A IN the winter season, a commonwealth of ants wasbusily employed in the management and preservationof their corn ; which they expose to the air, in heaps,round about the avenues of their little country habita-tions. A grasshopper, who had chanced to outlivethe summer, and was ready to starve with cold andhunger, approached them with great humility, andbegged that they would relieve his necessity, withone grain of wheat or rye. One of the ants askedhim, how he had disposed of his time in summer, that14 VIRTUE. EPITAPH. he had not taken pains and laid in a stock, as they had done. «Alas! gentlemen, says he, I passed away mytime merrily and pleasantly, in drinking, singing, anddancing, and never thought of winter. If that bethe case, replied the ant, all I have to say is, thatthey who drink, sing, and dance, in the summer, muststarve in the winter. MORAL. Who pleasures loveShall beg-g-ars prove. VIRTUE INDISPENSABLE. IF good we plant not, vice will fill the mind,And w
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