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Rh pirits o raied by them, that he would often be lot in delight, if he was not checked by oberving the behaviour of a clas of females who attend thoe places. What a painful train of reflections do then arie in the mind, and convictions of the vice and folly of the world are prematurely forced on it. It is no longer a paradie, for innocence is not there; the taint of vice poions every enjoyment, and affectation, though depied, is very contagious. If thee reflections do not occur, languor follows the extraordinary exertions, and weak minds fall a prey to imaginary ditres, to banih which they are obliged to take as a remedy what produced the dieae. We