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 of action. The rules that are friendly to the government of one may apply with trifling variation to all; and the following remarks shall be confined simply to the passion of anger. This is a mingled emotion, and is said to combine a "sense of injury with a purpose of revenge," yet is secondary to none in the suddenness of its growth, the firmness of its root, and the violence of its operations. It has been known to rouse all the powers of the soul to sudden combat; to rend the firmest bands of amity and affection; to destroy in a moment what the labour of years had scarcely effected, and the united efforts of ages could never reinstate. To conquer this passion requires a vigorous and habitual exertion; for if some are less constitutionally inclined to it, or less exposed to the causes that excite it than others; yet none ever obtained a habit of constant sweetness and self command, without many internal conflicts, because none are exempt from vexations, or insensible to the risings of resentment. It is not blameable to feel quickly or deeply; but it is both blameable and weak, to suffer such feelings to disarm our reason, and raise a mutiny in the soul.

To meet, not only the peculiar vexations of our lot, but those more trifling provocations which are often the greatest trials of the temper, to meet these not with insensibility, but with