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Rh which led to eminence, that like a quickand inks as he acends, diappointing his hopes when almot within his grap, would he not leave to others the honour of amuing them, and labour to ecure the preent moment, though from the contitution of his nature he would not find it very eay to catch the flying tream? Such laves are we to hope and fear!

But, vain as the ambitious man's puruits would be, he is often triving for omething more ubtantial than fame—that indeed would be the veriet meteor, the wildet fire that could lure a man to ruin.—What! renounce the mot trifling gratification to be applauded when he hould be no more! Wherefore this truggle, whether man is mortal or immortal, if that noble paion did not really raie the being above his fellows?—

And love! What diverting cenes would it produce—Pantaloon's tricks mut yield to more egregious folly. To ee a mortal adorn an object with imaginary charms, and then fall down and worhip the idol which he had himelf et up—how ridiculous! But what erious conequences enue to rob man of that portion of happines, which the Deity by calling him into exitence has (or, on what can his attributes ret?) indubitably promied: would not all the purpoes of life have been much better fulfilled if he had only felt what has been termed phyical love? And, would not the ight of the object, not een through the medium of the imagination, oon reduce the paion to an appetite, if reflection, the noble ditinction of man, did not give it force, and make it an intrument to raie him above this Rh