WHITINGS OF DR. SMITH. LV

pofe yourfelf to tranquillity: Show yourfelf a phi-lofopher in practice as well as profeffion: Think onthe emptinefs, and rafhnefs, and futility of thecommon judgments of men : How little they areregulated by reafon in any fubjeel, much more inphilofophical fubjefts, which fo far exceed the com-prehenfion of the vulgar.

— ■— Non,Jl quid turbida Roma,

Elevet, accedas: examenve hnprobum in iliaCajliges trutina; nec te qu&fiveris extra.

A wife man’s kingdom is his own breaft; or, ifhe ever looks farther, it will only be to the judge-ment of a feleft few, who are free from prejiudces,and capab'e of examining his work. Nothing in-deed can be a fironger prefumption of fallkoodthan the approbation of the multitude; and Pho-cion, you know, always fufpecled himfelf of fomeblunder, when he was attended with the applaufesof the populace.

“ Snppofmg, therefore, that you have dulyprepared yourfelf for the worft by all thefe reflec-tions, I proceed to tell you the melancholy news,that your book has been very unfortunate; for thepublic feem difpofed to applaud it extremely. Itwas looked for by the foolilh people with fomeimpatience; and the mob of literati are beginningalready to be very loud in its praifes. Three Bifhopscalled yefterday at Millar’s flxop in order to buy