Mrs Lee

with the affectionate

regant of her frond Smokean

MDCCCXIV.

Joseph McKean

"As bees mixed nectar draw from fragrant flowers,
"So men from Friendship, wisdom and delight.
"Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene;
"Resumes them, to prepare us for the next."

......

YOUNG, Night II. 471. and IX. 387.

"When was public virtue to be found
"Where private was not? Can he love the whole
"Who loves no part? He be a nation's friend
"Who is in truth the friend of no man there?
"Can he be strenuous in his country's cause
"Who slights the charities, for whose dear sake
"That country if at all must be beloved."

COWPER, Task, V. 502.

[NOT PUBLISHED.]

MUNROE & FRANCIS, PRINTERS, BOSTON.

1814.

THESE SKETCHES ARE DEDICATED

TO THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETY

WORSHIPPING IN CHAUNCY PLACE, BOSTON,

WITH MUCH RESPECT AND AFFECTION;

IN ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF

THEIR OFTEN EXPERIENCED CANDID ATTENTION

AND KIND COURTESIES.

Joseph McKean.