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112 good dipoitions, and in ome meaure to etablih a character, which will not depend on every accidental impule. To be convinced of truths, and yet not to feel or act up to them, is a common thing. Preent pleaure drives all before it, and adverity is mercifully ent to force us to think.

In the chool of adverity we learn knowledge as well as virtue; yet we lament our hard fate, dwell on our diappointments, and never conider that our own wayward minds, and inconitent hearts, require thee needful correctives. Medicines are not ent to perons in health. It