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(23) when you will form new connections, both domeſtic and civil life. It is unneceſſary preſent to enter upon the detail of the  ſeries of duties, which will of course  as your ſphere of action ſhall be. Only in general, that you may be for the useful offices of active life, let  adviſe you to cheriſh, in the mean time,  ſentiments of benevolence, and to  every opportunity of expreſſing kind generous affections. Avoid all ſuch and indulgences as would the delicacies of your feelings, and  you for exerciſing the "dear " of the domeſtic relations. Habituate to look beyond your own and your own convenience, to thoſe of others. If you wiſh to be admired as a, or loved as a friend; if you would attach thoſe with whom you are to your intereſt; if you are ambitious to be reſpected in your neighbourhood for civility, generoſity, and public ſpirit;  you aſpire after the exalted merit of being  friend to mankind;-early accuſtom  in the daily intercourſes of life, to bend own inclinations and humours to thoſe others; intereſt yourſelf in every ſcene of, or misfortune, which offers itſelf your notice; be attentive to every in which the public proſperity, or  cauſe of virtue and religion, is. In one word, never forget that you are