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Rh when reaon and virtue will not give their anction, contitutes great part of the warfare of life. What upport, then, have they who are all enes, and who are full of chemes, which terminate in temporal objects?

Reading is the mot rational employment, if people eek food for the undertanding, and do not read merely to remember words; or with a view to quote celebrated authors, and retail entiments they do not undertand or feel. Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart, though ome, by them, "are made coxcombs whom nature meant for fools." Thoe