nce on some new study, it is common
to make flattering representations of its pleasantness and facility.

19. Thus they generally attain one of the two ends almost equally
desirable; they either incite his industry by elevating his hopes, or
produce a high opinion of their own abilities, since they are supposed
to relate only what they have found, and to have proceeded with no less
ease than they have promised to their followers.

20. The student, enflamed by this encouragement, sets forward in the new
path, and proceeds a few steps with great alacrity; but he soon finds
asperities and intricacies of which he has not been forewarned, and
imagining that none ever were so entangled or fatigued before him, sinks
suddenly into despair, and desists as from an expedition in which fate
opposes him. Thus his terrors are multiplied by his hopes, and he is
defeated without resistance, because he had no expectation of an enemy.

21. Of these treacherous instructors, the one destroys industry, by
declaring that industry is vain, the other by representing it as
needless: the one cuts away the root of hope, the other raises it only
to be blasted. The one confines his pupil to the shore, by telling him
that his wreck is certain; the other sends him to sea without preparing
him for tempests.

22. False hopes and false terrors, are equally to be avoided. Every man
who proposes to grow eminent by learning, should carry in his mind, at
once, the difficulty of excellence, and the force of industry; and
remember that fame is not conferred but as the recommence of labour, and
that labour, vigorously continued, has not often failed of its reward.

_Fortitude founded upon the fear of God._

GUARDIAN, No. 167.

1. Looking over the late edition of Monsieur _Boileau's_ works, I was
very much pleased with the article which he has added to his notes on
the translation of _Longinus_. He there tells us, that the sublime in
writing rises either from the nobleness of the thought, the magnificence
of the words, or the harmonious and lively turn of the phrase, and that
the perfect sublime rises from all these three in conjunction together.
He produces an instance of this perfect sublime in four verses from the
Athalia of Monsieur _Racine_.

2. When _Abner_, one of the chief officers of the court, represents to
_Joad_ the high priest, that the queen was incensed against him, the
high priest, not in the least terrified at the news, returns