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208 render the dependent creature an intereting object, in ome points of view; but human love mut have groer ingredients; and the peron very naturally will come in for its hare—and, an ample hare it motly has!

Love is, in a great degree, an arbitrary paion, and will reign, like ome other talking michiefs, by its own authority, without deigning to reaon; and it may alo be eaily ditinguihed from eteem, the foundation of friendhip, becaue it is often excited by evanecent beauties and graces, though to give an energy to the entiment, omething more olid mut deepen their impreion and et the imagination to work, to make the mot fair—the firt good.

Common paions are excited by common qualities.—Men look for beauty and the imper of good-humoured docility: women are captivated by eay manners; a gentleman-like man eldom fails to pleae them, and their thirty ears eagerly drink the ininuating nothings of politenes, whilt they turn from the unintelligible ounds of the charmer—reaon, charm he never o wiely. With repect to uperficial accomplihments, the rake certainly has the advantage; and of thee females can form an opinion, for it is their own ground. Rendered gay and giddy by the whole tenor of their lives, the very apect of widom, or the evere graces of virtue, mut have a lugubrious appearance to them; and produce a kind of retraint from which they and love, portive child, naturally revolt. Without tate, excepting of the lighter kind, for tate is the offspring of judgment, how can they dicover that&ensp;