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the night, to the found of their tamtam^ and return 

 to their labour before day-break, contented, full 

 of vigour, and as frefh as thofe who have llept 

 foundly all night long : fuch is the power pof- 

 feffed by the moral afFedions, which combine 

 with this fentiment, over the phyfical organization. 

 The night of the lover diffufes a charm over the 

 day of the Have. 



We have, in Scripture, a very remarkable in- 

 flance to this effeâ: ; it is in the book of Genefis 5 

 ** Jacob,** it is there written, " ferved feven years 

 " for Rachel-, and they feemed unto him but a few 

 " days, for the love he had to her *.'* I am per- 

 fedly aware that our politicians, who fet no value 

 on any thing but gold and titles, have no concep- 

 tion of all this ; but I am happy in being able to 

 inform them, that no one ever better underftood 

 the Laws of Nature than the Authors of the Sa- 

 cred Books, and that on the Laws of Nature only, 

 can thofe of happily ordered Societies be efta- 

 bliHied. 



I could Vv^ifli, therefore, that our young people 

 might have it in their power to cultivate the fenti- 

 ment of love, in the midft of their labours, as 

 Jacob did. No matter at what age; as foon as 



* Genefis, chap. xxix. ver. 20. 



we 



