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Rh unhine, conpicuous in the virtues of great men, et off each other; and though they afford envious weaknes a fairer mark to hoot at, the real character will till work its way to light, though bepattered by weak affection, or ingenious malice.

With repect to that anxiety to preerve a reputation hardly earned, which leads agacious people to analyze it, I hall not make the obvious comment; but I am afraid that morality is very inidiouly undermined, in the female world, by the attention being turned to the hew intead of the ubtance. A imple thing is thus made trangely complicated; nay, ometimes virtue and its hadow are et at variance. We hould never, perhaps, have heard of Lucretia, had he died to preerve her chatity intead of her reputation. If we really deerve our own good opinion we hall commonly be repected in the world; but if we pant after higher improvement and higher attainments, it is not ufficient to view ourelves as we uppoe that we are viewed by others, though this has been ingeniouly argued, as the foundation of our moral entiments. Becaue each by-tander may have his own prejudices, beide the prejudices of his age or country. We hould rather endeavour to view ourelves as we uppoe that Being views us who eeth each thought ripen into action, and whoe judgment never werves from the eternal rule of right. Righteous are all his judgments—jut as merciful! The&ensp;