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 poibly could not, abolutely remove her, rom her Place, he found, however, the Means of making her Life very uneay. This Mrs. Wilkins, at length, o reented, that he very openly hewed all Manner of Repect and Fondnes to little Tommy, in Oppoition to Mrs. Blifil.

The Captain, therefore, finding the Story in Danger of perihing, he at lat took an Opportunity to reveal it himelf.

He was one Day engaged with Mr. Allworthy in a Difcoure on Charity: In which the Captain, with great Learning, proved to Mr. Allworthy, that the Word Charity, in Scripture, no where means Beneficence, or Generoity.

‘The Chritian Religion, he aid, was intituted for much nobler Purpoes, than to enforce a Leon which many Heathen Philoophers had taught us long before, and which, though it might, perhaps, be called a moral Virtue, avoured but little of that ublime Chritian-like Dipoition, that vat Elevation of Thought, in Purity approaching to angelic Perfection, to be attained, expreed, and felt only by Grace. Thoe (he aid) came nearer to