It is more than probable, that the prince above mentioned poffeffed both thefe qualifications in a very eminent degree. Without affurance he would never have undertaken to speak before the most auguft affembly in the world; without modefty he would have pleaded the caufe he had taken upon him, though it had appeared ever fo fcandalous.

From what has been faid, it is plain, that modefty and asfurance are both amiable, and may very well meet in the fame perfon. When they are thus mixed and blended together,: they compofe what we endeavour to exprefs when we say a modeft affurance: by which we understand the just mean. between bashfulness and impudence.

I fall conclude with obferving, that as the fame man may, be both modeft and affured, so it is alfo poffible for the fame perfon to be both impudent and bafhful.

We have frequent inftances of this odd kind of mixture in people of depraved minds and mean education; who, though they are not able to meet a man's eyes, or pronounce a fentence without confufion, can voluntarily commit the greatest villanies or most indecent actions.

Such a perfon feems to have made a refolution to do ill even in fpite of himself, and in deflance of all thofe checks and restraints his temper and complexion feem to have laid in his way.

Upon the whole, I would endeavour to establish this maxim, that the practice of virtue is the moft proper method to give a man a becoming affurance in his words and actions. Guilt always feeks to fhelter itself in one of the extremes, and is fometimes attended with both.

I have, for the ease of the learner, diftributed all the words of each of the foregoing leffons, into a regular order; and prefixed to each word, or phrafe, its number, as it is numbered in the plate; by which the characters that compose it may be feen at one view.

In the first lesson is inferted every confonant belonging to each word, with the point for every vowel; which practice, as was before observed, the learner muft pursue, till he be very ready in both writing and reading all his exercises. The first ten words in this lesson have their characters formed separately from each other.

In the second lesson no more letters in a word are inferted than are abfolutely neceffary to difcover the found. The fingle confonant marks are also used for the words, prepofitions, and terminations they reprefent; and the characters for the double and treble letters.

The third leffon is written upon the most finished principles of this art, Above all the advantages which it poffeffes, in common with the second lesson, it has, moreover, all the abbreviations delivered in the foregoing rules. And which rules the writer fhould have very perfectly in his memory.