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murm'iiring of the winds, the fetting of the Sun, 

 and the darknefs of the night. 



Labour the mofl oppreffive, and humiliation the 

 moft degrading, are incapable of extinguifhing the 

 imprefTion of this fcniiment in the breads of even 

 the moft miferable of Mankind. *' During the 

 *' fpace of two years," fays Father du T'ertre^ *^ our 

 " negro Dominick, after the death of his wife, 

 *^ never failed, for a fingle day, as foon as he re- 

 '* turned from the place of his employment, to 

 *' take the little boy and girl which he had by her, 

 " and to condu<5l them to the grave of the de- 

 ** ceafed, over which he fobbed and wept before 

 ** them, for more than half an hour together, 

 " while the poor children frequently caught the 

 ** infedion of his forrow *." What a funeral 

 oration for a wife and a mother ! This man, how- 

 ever, was nothing but a wretched flave. 



There farther refults, from the view of ruins, 

 another fentiment, indépendant of all reflexion : 

 it is that of heroifm. Great Generals have oftener 

 than once employed their fublime efTedt, in order 

 to exalt the courage of their foldiers. Alexander 

 perfuaded his army, loaded with the fpoils of Per- 

 iia, to burn their baggage ; and the moment that 



* Hiftory of the Antilles : Tr. viii. chap. i. feâ:, 4. 



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