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Rh A lively principle of this kind would alo overcome indolence; for I have known people wateful and penurious at the ame time; but the watefulnes was to pare themelves trouble, and others only felt the effects of their penury, to make the balance even.

Women too often confine their love and charity to their own families. They fix not in their minds the precedency of moral obligations, or make their feelings give way to duty. Good-will to all the human race hould dwell in our booms, nor hould love to individuals induce us to violate this firt of duties, or make us acrifice the teret