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Rh other kind of beauty, the ſhadow of it, withers away before it—as the ſun obſcures a lamp.

You are certainly handſome, Caroline; I mean, have good features; but you muſt improve your mind to give them a pleaſing expreſſion, or they will only ſerve to lead your underſtanding aſtray. I have ſeen ſome fooliſh people take great pains to decorate the outſide of their houſes, to attract the notice of ſtrangers, who gazed, and paſſed on; whilſt the inſide, where they received their friends, was dark and inconvenient. Apply this obſervation to mere perſonal attractions. They may, it is true, for a few years, charm the ſuperficial part of your acquaintance, whoſe notions of beauty are not built on any principle of utility. Such perſons might look at you, as they would glance their eye over theſe tulips, and feel for a moment the ſame pleaſure that a view of the variegated rays of light would convey to an uninformed mind. The lower claſs of mankind, and children, are fond of finery; gaudy, dazzling Rh