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236 who prayed at the corners of treets, to be een of men, verily obtain the reward they eek; for the heart of man cannot be read by man! Still the fair fame that is naturally reflected by good actions, when the man is only employed to direct his teps aright, regardles of the lookers-on, is, in general, not only more true, but more ure.

There are, it is true, trials when the good man mut appeal to God from the injutice of man; and amidt the whining candour or hiings of envy, erect a pavilion in his own mind to retire to till the rumour be overpat; nay, the darts of undeerved cenure may pierce an innocent tender boom through with many orrows; but thee are all exceptions to general rules. And it is according to thee common laws that human behaviour ought to be regulated. The eccentric orbit of the comet never influences atronomical calculations repecting the invariable order etablihed in the motion of the principal bodies of the olar ytem.

I will then venture to affirm, that after a man is arrived at maturity, the general outline of his character in the world is jut, allowing for the before-mentioned exceptions to the rule. I do not ay that a prudent, worldly-wie man, with only negative virtues and qualities, may not ometimes obtain a more mooth reputation than a wier or a better man. So far from it, that I am apt to conclude from experience, that where the virtue of two people is nearly equal, the mot negative character will be liked bet by the world at large, whilt the other may have more friends in private life. But the hills and dales, clouds and unhine,&ensp;