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FRATERNAL AFFECTION.

Ye are the children of one father, provided for by his care; and the breaſt of one mother hath given you ſuck.

Let the bonds of affection, therefore, unite the with thy brothers, that peace and happineſs may dwell in thy father's houſe.

If thy brother is in adverſity, aſſiſt him; if thy ſiſter is in trouble, forſake her not.

THOUGH all mankind ſpring from the ſame head, and are bound to cultivate a mutual good-will to each other; yet this duty is not ſo obvious and ſtriking as that which is incumbent on thoſe who belong to the ſame family.

Nothing can approach nearer to ſelf-love than fraternal affection; and there is but a ſhort remove from our own concerns and happineſs to theirs who come from the ſame ſtock, and are partakers of the ſame blood. Nothing, therefore, can be more horrible than diſcord and animoſity among members ſo allied; and nothing ſo beautiful as harmony and love.

In the begining of the ſixteenth century, the Portuguese carracks ſailed from Liſbon to Goa, a very great, rich, and flouriſhing colony of that nation in the Eaſt-Indies.