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Rh young people marry, it would, perhaps, be happy if ome circumtances checked their paion; if the recollection of ome prior attachment, or diappointed affection, made it on one ide, at leat, rather a match founded on eteem. In that cae they would look beyond the preent moment, and try to render the whole of life repectable, by forming a plan to regulate a friendhip which only death ought to diolve.

Friendhip is a erious affection; the mot ublime of all affections, becaue it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The very revere may be aid of love. In a great degree, love and friendhip cannot ubit in the ame boom; even when inpired by different objects they weaken or detroy each other, and for the ame object can only be felt in ucceion. The vain fears and fond jealouies, the winds which fan the flame of love, when judiciouly or artfully tempered, are both incompatible with the tender confidence and incere repect of friendhip.

Love, uch as the glowing pen of genius has traced, exits not on earth, or only reides in thoe exalted, fervid imaginations that have ketched uch dangerous pictures. Dangerous, becaue they not only afford a plauible excue, to the voluptuary who diguies heer enuality under a entimental veil; but as they pread affectation, and take from the dignity of virtue. Virtue, as the very word imports, hould have an appearance of eriounes, if not auterity; and to endeavour to trick her out in the garb of pleaure, becaue the epithet has been ued as another name for beauty, is to exalt her on a quickand; a mot Rh