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Rh love that in various convolutions entangle the heart.

This ympathy extends till further, till a man well pleaed oberves force in arguments that do not carry conviction to his own boom, and he gladly places in the fairet light, to himelf, the hews of reaon that have led others atray, rejoiced to find ome reaon in all the errors of man; though before convinced that he who rules the day makes his un to hine on all. Yet, haking hands thus as it were with corruption, one foot on earth, the other with bold tride mounts to heaven, and claims kindred with uperiour natures. Virtues, unoberved by man, drop their balmy fragrance at this cool hour, and the thirty land, refrehed by the pure treams of comfort that uddenly guh out, is crowned with miling verdure; this is the living green, on which that eye may look with complacency that is too pure to behold iniquity!

But my pirits flag; and I mut ilently indulge the reverie thee reflections lead to, unable to decribe the entiments, that have calmed my oul, when watching the riing un, a oft hower drizzling through the leaves of neighbouring trees, eemed to fall on my languid, yet tranquil pirits, to cool the heart that had been heated by the paions which reaon laboured to tame.

The leading principles which run through all my diquiitions, would render it unneceary to enlarge on this ubject, if a contant attention to keep the varnih of the character freh, and in good condition, were not often inculcated as the um total of female duty; if rules to regulate the&ensp;