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in France, and that every body eats macaroni in Italy. When he returns home, he buys a seat in parliament, and studies the

constitution at Arthur's.

« Nor are your females trained to any more useful purpose: they are taught, by the very rewards which their nurses propose for good behaviour, by the first thing like a jest which they hear from every male visitor of the family, that a young woman is a creature to be married; and when they are grown somewhat older, are instructed, that it is the purpose of marriage to have the enjoyment of pin-money, and the expectation of a jointure. »

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<< In short, man is an animal equally selfish and vain. Vanity, indeed, is but a modification of selfishness. From the latter, there are some who pretend to be free: they are generally such as declaim against the lust of wealth and power, because they have never been able to attain any high degree in either: they boast of generosity and feeling. They tell us (perhaps they tell us in rhime) that the sensations of an honest heart, of a mind universally benevo

lent, make up the quiet bliss which they enjoy; but they will not, by this, be exempted from the charge of selfishness. Whence the luxurious happiness they describe in their little family-circles? Whence the pleasure which they feel, when they trim their evening fires, and listen to the howl of winter's wind? Whence, but from the secret reflection of what houseless wretches feel from it? Or do you administer comfort in affliction the motive is at hand ; I have had it preached to me in nineteen out of twenty of your consolatory discourses --the comparative littleness of our own misfortunes.

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« With vanity your best virtues are grossly tainted your benevolence, which ye deduce immediately from the natural impulse of the heart, squints to it for its reward. There are some, indeed, who tell us of the satisfaction which flows from a secret consciousness of good actions: this when secret satisfaction is truly excellent we have some friend to whom we may discover its excellence.»

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He now paused a moment to relight his pipe, when a clock, that stood at his back. struck eleven; he started up at the sound

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took his hat and his cane, and nodding good night with his head, walked out of the room. The gentleman of the house called a servant to bring the stranger's surtout. » What sort of a night is it, fellow ? » said he. « It rains, Sir, answered the servant, with an easterly wind.-Easterly for ever! » He made no other reply; but shrugging up his shoulders till they almost touched his ears, wrapped himself tight in his great coat, and disappeared.

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<< This is a strange creature,» said his friend to Harley. « I cannot say, answered he, that his remarks are of the pleasant kind it is curious to observe how the nature of truth may be changed by the garb it wears, softened to the admonition of friendship, or soured into the severity of reproof: yet this severity may be useful to some tempers, it somewhat resembles a file: disagreeable in its operation, but hard metals may be the brighter. »>

THE MAN OF FEELING.

FORTITUDE:

OR THE STORY OF A DISABLED SOLDIER.

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No observation is more common the same time more true, than That one-half of the world are ignorant how the other half lives. The misfortunes of the great are held up to engage our attention, are enlarged upon in tones of declamation; and the world is called upon to gaze at the noble sufferers: the great, under the pressure of calamity, are conscious of several others sympathizing with their distress; and have, at once, the comfort of admiration and pity.

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on: men in such circumstances will act bravely even from motives of vanity; but he who, in the vale of obscurity, can brave adversity; who without friends to encourage, acquaintances to pity, or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes can behave with tranquillity and indifference, is truly great: whether peasant or courtier,

he deserves admiration, and should be held up for our imitation and respect.

While the slightest inconveniencies of the great are magnified into calamities; while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardship one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives. It is inconceivable what difficulties the meanest of our common sailors and soldiers endure without murmuring or regret; without passionately declaming against Providence, or calling their fellows to be gazers on their intrepidity. Every day is to them a day of misery, and yet they entertain their hard fate without repining.

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With what indignation do I hear an Ovid, a Cicero, or a Rabutin, complain of their misfortunes and hardships, whose greatest calamity was that of being unable to visit a certain spot of earth to which they had foolishly attached an idea of happiness! Their distresses were pleasures, compared to what many of the adventuring poor every day endure without murmuring. They ate, drank, and slept; they had slaves toattend them, and were sure of subsistence

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