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 reason, and your enmities mitigated by candour; let not the eye of the mind be blinded by prejudice, deceived by a gilded surface, or dazzled by the tinsel and trappings of time; but resolutely bear testimony in favour of virtue, how ever neglected, and of goodness, however despised, till eventually the admiration of virtue in others, may awaken you to practise it yourselves, and the love of goodness here, lead you to its perfect reward hereafter.

 

BY those who have made critical observations on the powers and pursuits of man, it has been pronounced his most uncommon acquirement, to become acquainted with himself. We may penetrate into the characters of those who surround us; we may learn the habits, dispositions, and language of foreign nations; we may become acquainted with all the peculiarities of the globe that we inhabit; the course of its 