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Rh will be felt by ome of my readers. Animated by this important object, I hall didain to cull my phraes or polih my tyle;—I aim at being ueful, and incerity will render me unaffected; for, wihing rather to peruade by the force of my arguments, than dazzle by the elegance of my language, I hall not wate my time in rounding periods, nor in fabricating the turgid bombat of artificial feelings, which, coming from the head, never reach the heart.—I hall be employed about things, not words!—and, anxious to render my ex more repectable members of ociety, I hall try to avoid that flowery diction which has lided from eays into novels, and from novels into familiar letters and converation.

Thee pretty nothings—thee caricatures of the real beauty of enibility, dropping glibly from the tongue, vitiate the tate, and create a kind of ickly delicacy that turns away from imple unadorned truth; and a deluge of fale entiments and overtretched feelings, tifling the natural emotions of the heart, render the dometic pleaures inipid, that ought to weeten the exercie of thoe evere duties, which educate a rational and immortal being for a nobler field of action. Rh