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Hope.

Happy or unhappy , HOPE supports and animates us ; and such is . the instability of human affairs , that even HOPE itself justifies , projects the most adventurous , since , by continual vicissitudes of good arid bad fortune , we have no more reason to fear what we hate , than to hope for what we desire . ¦ - May not we say truly , that HOPE is to us like a second life , \ yhich sweetens the bitterness of that which we enjoy from the

hands of our Creator ? But farther it is the soul of the universe , aad a spring the most powerful to maintain the harmony thereof . It is by HOPE that the whole world governs ' -itself . Would laws be enacted , if mankind did not hope a wise policy from them ? Should we see obedient subjects , if each individual did not by his submission flatter himself to contribute to the happiness of his

country ? What should become of the arts , and how useless would they be reckoned , without the hopes of the good effects the world must reap from them ? Would not the sciences'be neglected ? Would not talents be uncultivated , and the - most happy genius ' s sink to a brutal rudeness , without the flattering hopes of a surec and a more refined taste in every thing that it concerns us to

know ? ¦ If you ask the soldier , what makes him expose himself so often to the hazards of days > which he might render less perilous , or more easy ? lie will tell you , that it is , the hope of glory , which he prefers to the melancholy softness of a life spent in an obscure languor . The merchant traverses the seasbut he hopes to

in-, demnify himself by his riches for the fears which he has undergone amidst the storms and the rocks . The husbandman , bent down upon his plough , waters the ground with his sweat ; but this very ground is to feed him ; and he , would give himself no trouble to cultivate it , if he did not certainly expect the reward of his labours .

Whatever be our undertaking , HOPE is the motive to them ; it is the fore-taste of our success , and is , at least , for some time , a real blessing in default of that which escapes us . It is an anticipated joy , which is sometimes delusive ; but which , while it lasts , affords a pleasure that is-no ways inferior to the enjoyment of that which we promise ourselves , and which often effaces the memory of all the sweets we have alreadtasted in the most happy

situay tion . . , ' And how could we quietly enjoy life , if we did not live from one day to another in hopes of prolonging it ? There are none , down to sick persons , even in the most desperate cases , that are not shocked at the approach of death , and who have not hopes of recovery almost in the very moment they are iring . We even

exp carry our hopes beyond the grave ; and at the time when we are endeavouring to render ourselves immortal among mankind , full of this flattering idea , we are the more disposed to lose ourselyes irrecoverabl y in the abyss of eternity .

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LONDON: Article 1
THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE: OR, GENERAL and COMPLETE LIBRARY. Article 2
A GENERAL CHARGE TO MASONRY. Article 7
A CHARGE Article 11
ON FASHION. Article 18
ANECDOTE OF PHILIP I. KING OF SPAIN. Article 20
COMMENTS ON STERNE. Article 21
THE ANTIQUITY OF DRINKING HEALTHS. Article 28
ANECDOTES OF DR. GOLDSMITH. Article 31
CHARACTER OF SIR ANTHONY BROWN. Article 38
ANECDOTES OF DR. JOHNSON, &c. Article 39
PRIVATE ANECDOTES OF ILLUSTRIOUS FRENCH CHARACTERS. Article 46
HOPE. Article 53
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JAMES HESELTINE, ESQ. G. T. Article 56
TO THE PRINTER OF THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE, Article 58
THE HUMBLE ADDRESS OF THE MOST ANTIENT AND HONOURABLE SOCIETY OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS, RESIDENT IN THE COUNTY OF LINCOLN. In GRAND LODGE assembled. Article 58
OF MAN's HAPPINESS. Article 59
A TALE. Article 60
ON THE STUDY OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. Article 64
THE CRUELTY OF A FATHER. Article 65
A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF NAVIGATION. Article 69
THE CHOICE OF ABDALA: Article 74
STRICTURES ON PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 79
POETRY. Article 82
TO ARNO. Article 83
STANZAS Article 84
PROLOGUE TO THE WORLD IN A VILLAGE. Article 85
FOREIGN OCCURRENCES. Article 86
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 88
Untitled Article 91
Untitled Article 91
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Hope.

Happy or unhappy , HOPE supports and animates us ; and such is . the instability of human affairs , that even HOPE itself justifies , projects the most adventurous , since , by continual vicissitudes of good arid bad fortune , we have no more reason to fear what we hate , than to hope for what we desire . ¦ - May not we say truly , that HOPE is to us like a second life , \ yhich sweetens the bitterness of that which we enjoy from the

hands of our Creator ? But farther it is the soul of the universe , aad a spring the most powerful to maintain the harmony thereof . It is by HOPE that the whole world governs ' -itself . Would laws be enacted , if mankind did not hope a wise policy from them ? Should we see obedient subjects , if each individual did not by his submission flatter himself to contribute to the happiness of his

country ? What should become of the arts , and how useless would they be reckoned , without the hopes of the good effects the world must reap from them ? Would not the sciences'be neglected ? Would not talents be uncultivated , and the - most happy genius ' s sink to a brutal rudeness , without the flattering hopes of a surec and a more refined taste in every thing that it concerns us to

know ? ¦ If you ask the soldier , what makes him expose himself so often to the hazards of days > which he might render less perilous , or more easy ? lie will tell you , that it is , the hope of glory , which he prefers to the melancholy softness of a life spent in an obscure languor . The merchant traverses the seasbut he hopes to

in-, demnify himself by his riches for the fears which he has undergone amidst the storms and the rocks . The husbandman , bent down upon his plough , waters the ground with his sweat ; but this very ground is to feed him ; and he , would give himself no trouble to cultivate it , if he did not certainly expect the reward of his labours .

Whatever be our undertaking , HOPE is the motive to them ; it is the fore-taste of our success , and is , at least , for some time , a real blessing in default of that which escapes us . It is an anticipated joy , which is sometimes delusive ; but which , while it lasts , affords a pleasure that is-no ways inferior to the enjoyment of that which we promise ourselves , and which often effaces the memory of all the sweets we have alreadtasted in the most happy

situay tion . . , ' And how could we quietly enjoy life , if we did not live from one day to another in hopes of prolonging it ? There are none , down to sick persons , even in the most desperate cases , that are not shocked at the approach of death , and who have not hopes of recovery almost in the very moment they are iring . We even

exp carry our hopes beyond the grave ; and at the time when we are endeavouring to render ourselves immortal among mankind , full of this flattering idea , we are the more disposed to lose ourselyes irrecoverabl y in the abyss of eternity .

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