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250 ceremonies that with cumberous pomp upplied the place of dometic affections, I have turned to ome other cene to relieve my eye by reting it on the refrehing green every where cattered by nature. I have then viewed with pleaure a woman nuring her children, and dicharging the duties of her tation with, perhaps, merely a ervant maid to take off her hands the ervile part of the houehold buines. I have een her prepare herelf and children, with only the luxury of cleanlines, to receive her huband, who returning weary home in the evening found miling babes and a clean hearth. My heart has loitered in the midt of the group, and has even throbbed with ympathetic emotion, when the craping of the well known foot has raied a pleaing tumult.

Whilt my benevolence has been gratified by contemplating this artles picture, I have thought that a couple of this decription, equally neceary and independent of each other, becaue each fulfilled the repective duties of their tation, poeed all that life could give.—Raied ufficiently above abject poverty not to be obliged to weigh the conequence of every farthing they pend, and having ufficient to prevent their attending to a frigid ytem of economy, which narrows both heart and mind. I declare, o vulgar are my conceptions, that I know not what is wanted to render this the happiet as well as the mot repectable ituation in the world, but a tate for literature, to throw a little variety and interet into ocial convere, and ome uperfluous money to give to the needy and to buy books. For it is not&ensp;