The Bee - 1792 Author:James Anderson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: If from my tender mother's side, Some wicked wretch fhould make me f Full well I know, 'twould her betide, To break her heart, to sink, to die! And sha... more »ll I, then, so cruel prove, Your little ones to force away ? No, no j together live and Jok, See! here they are; take them, I pray Teach them in yonder wood te fly; And let them your soft warbling hear, 'Till their own wings can soar as high, And their own notes may sound as cleji Go, gentle birds; go, free as airl While oft again in summer's heat, To yonder oak I will repair,. And listen to your song eo sweet ON THE ADVANTAGES OF MISCELLANEOUS READING. Lectura testis est tempcrum, iilta menoriir ,ffuacia vetustatis, et nsvum dekcttmentum. Tui.tr. Unmethodized reading is adapted to the many; regular study is confined to the few, whom leisure or opulence attend, to smooth the rugged paths of science. The knowledge acquired from pursuits thus dictated by- choice, makes perhaps more useful imprefsions, then all the learning of the schools, on persons who have had some previous formation as to taste, and whose natural dispositions are not prostituted to depravity. Periodical publications are the chief sources from whence the readers above alluded to draw their information ; and it must be allowed they have diffused more general knowledge, then any other species of writing whatfoever. Their brevity allures the indolent, locality the curious; their wit is a relief to the learned, and the most vinegar aspect, or torpid risibility, will relax into a smile, at the redundancy of genuine humour, so often found iii them; while the universality of matter becomes an irresistable inducement to all. Amongst the works of this kind, newspapers, to the immortal fame of the inventors, lead the way, ...« less