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Rh. The ſame feeling actuates me when I am in company with the poor; we are creatures of the ſame nature, and I may be their inferior in thoſe graces which ſhould adorn my soul, and render me truly great.

How often muſt I repeat to you, that a child is inferior to a man; becauſe reaſon is in its infancy, and it is reaſon which exalts a man above a brute; and the cultivation of it raiſes the wiſe man above the ignorant; for wiſdom is only another name for virtue.

This morning, when I entered your apartment, I heard you inſult a worthy servant. You had juſt ſaid your prayers; but they muſt have been only the gabble of the tongue; your heart was not engaged in the ſacred employment, or you could not ſo ſoon have forgotten that you were a weak, dependent being, and that you were to receive mercy and kindneſs only on the condition of your practiſing the ſame.

I adviſe you to aſk Betty to pardon your impertinence; till you do ſo, ſhe ſhall not aſſiſt you; you would find yourself very helpleſs without the aſſiſtance of men and Rh