moment to overwhelm the person who dwells in them, and which while they stand, though they may save him from some small|er inconveniencies, can protect him from none of the severer inclemencies of the sea|son. They keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm, but leave him always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death.
But tho' this splenetic philosophy, which in time of sickness or low spirits is familiar to every man, thus entirely depreciates those great objects of human desire, when in bet|ter health and in better humour, we never fail to regard them under a more agreeable aspect. Our imagination, which in pain and sorrow seems to be confined and cooped up within our own persons, in times of ease and prosperity expands itself to every thing around us. We are then charmed with the beauty of that accomodation which reigns in the palaces and oeconomy of the great; and admire how every ••hing is adapted to promote their ease, to prevent their wants, to gratify their wishes, and to amuse and entertain their most frivo|••ous desires. If we consider the real satis|faction which all these things are capable of
