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 when their tempers have been poiled by indicreet indulgence, they become troubleome, and are motly left with ervants; the firt notions they imbibe, therefore, are mean and vulgar. They are taught cunning, the widom of that clas of people, and a love of truth, the foundation of virtue, is oon obliterated from their minds. It is, in my opinion, a well-proved fact, that principles of truth are innate. Without reaoning we aent to many truths; we feel their force, and artful ophitry can only blunt thoe feelings which nature has implanted in us as intinctive guards to virtue. Diimulation and cunning will oon drive all other