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134 ometimes in the company of young women, to make them wonder at their uperior widom! There cannot be any thing more dangerous to a mind, not accutomed to think, than doubts delivered in a ridiculing way. They never go deep enough to olve them, of coure they tick by them; and though they might not influence their conduct, if a fear of the world prevents their being guilty of vices, yet their thoughts are not retrained, and they hould be oberved diligently, "For out of them are the iues of life." A nice ene of right and wrong ought to be acquired, and then not only great vices will be avoided, but every little meannes; truth will reign in