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Rh will not ecape its lah, if deficient in this article. Ridicule has been, with ome people, the boated tet of truth—if o, our ex ought to make wonderful improvements; but I am apt to think, they often exert this talent till they loe all perception of it themelves. Affectation, and not ignorance, is the fair game for ridicule; and even affectation ome good-natured perons will pare. We hould never give pain without a deign to amend.

Exterior accomplihments are not to be depied, if the acquiring of them does not atisfy the poeors, and prevent their cultivating the more important ones.