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46 HUnlOJl Iloppi'lcis.
cnce of advantage in the choice and constitution of
dle two habits \viII shew it~eJf. Solitude conles to
the one clothed with melancllol)r; to the other it
hring .. liberty and quiet. You will see the one fretful
JU~d restless, at a ioss how to dispose of l1is time,
till the h'Jur COlne round that he can for~et hilnself
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in bed; the other easy and sati~fied, taking up his
book, or his pjpe~ a5; ~oon as he finds hinlseU· "toIle;
ready to adniit any little amU4\enlent that casts up~ or
to turn his hands and attention to the first business
that presents itself; or content without either to sit
~tin, and let hi~ trains of thought glide indolently
through I.-is brain, \\-ithout nluch use, perhaps, or
pleasure, but without hOiZkeriJlg after any tIling better~
and \virhollt irritation. ~-\ reader, ,vho has inured
him~elf to books of science and arguDlenta­
{ion, it" a novel, a ,\~eil writtea pamphlet, all article
ut- lle,v~, a narrati\:-e of a cl1rious ,~o)Tagc, or tIle
journal of a traveller, fall i~l his wa)-, ~its 40Wl1 to
the repast ,vith rcli,h; enjo)~s his entertainment
~:hi!e it Ia~ts, alld can retur~ when it is over, to his
gra\lcr reading, \\:ithout distaste. Another, with
\\yhom nothing \viII go do\\~n but \\·orks of hunlculalld
ple2.SfL'ltry, or ,,-hose curio~i[)' 111u~t be intel·ested
by perpetual novdty, will consume a booksell~r's
'.,V'llldo\v in half a forenoon; dUrillg \\;hich tilDe he
is l-ather in search of diver~ioJl thall diverted; and
as oO{Jks to his taste are few, alld short, and rapid})·
read o\~er, the ~tock i~ soon exl13usted, \\'hen he is
left \\1ithout resource from this prillcipal supply of
11arnliess anlUSClncl1t.
So far as cirCUlllstallces of fortune conduce to hap­
P!JICSS, it is 110t the incolllc \\"h.i{~h allY nlan posse~ses,
l)ut lf1e illcrease of inCOJ11e that aff\jrf..l~ tile pleasure.
Two per:-ons, of whom one begin ... "ith and huudred
~JIJ .1Jvallces his incollle to a t}lou~al1J pOUJ1JS a
'·(,~1r; alld tIle othel- sets ()JT \\,ith a till)U~and, CiD(1
jwinules dowu to an hundred, may, in the cour!-t;
c.>f their time, ha,'c the receipt ,md ~peI!Jing cA" the