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 comprehenion is enlarged. We not only ee events in their caues, but before their caues; we hear the thunder while the ky is clear, and ee the mine prung before it is dug. Political widom has, by the force of Englih genius, been improved at lat not only to political intuition, but to political precience.

it cannot, I am afraid, be aid, that as we are grown wie, we are made happy. It is aid of thoe who have the wonderful power called econd ight, that they eldom ee any thing but evil: political econd ight has the ame effect; we hear of nothing but of an alarming criis, of violated rights, and expiring liberties. The morning ries upon new wrongs, and the dreamer paes the night in imaginary hackles.

phere of anxiety is now enlarged; he that hitherto cared only for himelf, now