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GENEROSITY.

His heart and hand both open, and both free;
For what he has, he gives, what thinks, he shews.

SHAKSPEARE.

ENEROUS and liberal habits, whether in refer

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ence to the purse, or to matters of opinion, or to the construction to be put upon the actions of others, should be much encouraged in young Princes, into whose minds nothing narrow or mean should ever be allowed to creep.

THE COMTE DE BEAUJOLAIS, BROTHER OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE.

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HE Comte de Beaujolais, one of the brothers of Louis-Philippe, the present King of the French, was asked one day, when he was about four years old, why he always gave his foster-sister, when she came to see him, his prettiest playthings. "Because," replied he, "I like them best myself, and therefore I think she will like them best."

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LOUIS THE TWELFTH OF FRANCE.

T was a noble saying of Louis the Twelfth of France, when he was reminded, on coming to the throne, that he could now be revenged upon his enemies, "The King of France avenges not the injuries done to the Duke of Orleans."

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EDWARD THE SIXTH.

WHEN Prince Edward, afterwards Edward the

Sixth, was about five years old, his godfather Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, sent him as a present, a complete little table service in polished sliver, worked in a superior manner: there were

dishes, plates, drinking cups, spoons, every thing, in short, necessary for a dinner, and all in a miniature size. The attendant who took this pretty present to the Prince, said to him, "See what has been sent to your Highness! but you must not let any one touch them but yourself, or they will soon be spoiled." “What are you saying, my dear Spindbrok?” replied the royal child; "I would rather never have a plaything, than be obliged to keep it to myself."

CYRUS THE GREAT, AND CROESUS, KING
OF LYDIA.

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RESUS once suggested to Cyrus, that by the multitude of presents he made, he would be a beggar, while it was in his power to lay up mighty treasures of gold for his own use: Cyrus then asked him thus: "What sums do you think I should now have in possession, if I had been hoarding up gold as you bid me, ever since I have been in power?" And Croesus, in reply, mentioned a mighty sum. Then Cyrus said, "Well, Croesus, do you send with Hystaspes here, some person in whom you have confidence; and do you Hystaspes, go about to my friends, tell them that I am in want of money for a

certain affair, and bid them furnish me with as much as they are each of them able to do, and tell them to write down the sum they can spare me, sign it, and deliver the letter to the officer of Croesus to bring me." When they had gone round, Croesus found, upon calculation, many times the sum that he had told Cyrus, he might now have had in his treasury if he hoarded. When it appeared to be thus, Cyrus said, "You see, Croesus, that I have my treasures too; but you bid me hoard them up, to be envied and hated for them: you bid me place hired guards upon them, and in them to put my trust; but I make my friends rich, and reckon them to be treasures to me, and guards both to myself, and to all things of value that belong to us, and such as are more to be trusted, than if I set up a guard of hirelings."

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F it is the duty of the lowest and the poorest to remember with gratitude, benefits conferred, how much more is it incumbent upon Princes, who have great things in their power, to return with gratitude and attachment, the anxious cares that have been bestowed upon their early years, and to seek to reward those, to whom they owe not only their mental and personal acquirements, but their virtuous habits and inclinations.

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