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Rh the paions being employed this way, will, by degrees, come under the ubjection of reaon. I mean not to be rigid, the obtructions which arie in the way of our duty, do not trike a peculatit; I know, too, that in the moment of action, even a well-dipoed mind is often carried away by the preent impule, and that it requires ome experience to be able to ditinguih the dictates of reaon from thoe of paion. The truth is eldom found out until the tumult is over; we then wake as from a dream, and when we urvey what we have done, and feel the folly of it, we might call on reaon and ay, why leepet thou? Yet though