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others. ConGder, that, at death, all the enjoy- 

 ments of a moral being commence ; the rewards 

 of virtue, and of the flighteft acts of juftice and 

 of humanity, undervalued, perhaps, or defpifed. 

 by the World, but which have, in fome meafure, 

 brought us nearer, while we were upon the Earth, 

 to a Being righteous and eternal. 



When thefe two inftincts unite, in the fame 

 place, they confer upon us the higheft pleafure of 

 which our nature is fufceptible ; for, in that cafe, 

 our two natures, if I may thus exprefs myfelf, en- 

 joy at once *. I am going to trace a flight fketch 

 of the combination of their harmonies ; after which 

 we mail purfue the track of the celeftial fentiment 

 which is natural to us, as manifefted in our moll 

 ordinary fenfations. 



Let me fuppofe you then, Reader, difgufled, 

 and wearied out with the diforders of Society, in 

 fearch of fome happy fpot toward the extremity of 

 Africa, on which the foot of European never 



* To thefe two inftincts may be referred all the fenfations of 

 life, which frequently feem to be contradictory. For example, 

 if habit and novelty be agreeable to us, it is that habit gives us 

 confidence refpe&ing our phyfical relations, which are always 

 the fame; and novelty promifes new points of view to our di- 

 rine inftinét, which i» ever aiming at the extenfion of it's enjoy- 

 ments. ' I 



alighted. 



