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 the candidate of Patriotim endeavours to infue right opinions into the higher ranks, and by their influence to regulate the lower; if he conorts chiefly with the wie, the temperate, the regular, and the virtuous, his love of the people may be rational and honet. But if his firt or principal application be to the indigent, who are always inflammable; to the weak, who are naturally upicious; to the ignorant, who are eaily miled; and to the profligate, who have no hope but from michief and confuion; let his love of the people be no longer boated. No man can reaonably be thought a lover of his country, for roating an ox, or burning a boot, or attending the meeting at Mile-End, or regitering his name in the Lumber-Troop. He may, among the drunkards be a hearty fellow, and among ober handicraftmen, a free-poken gentleman; but he mut have ome better ditinction before he is a Patriot.