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we are capable of feeling, we are capable of loving. 

 Honourable love fufpends pain, banilhes languor, 

 faves from proftitution, from the errors and the 

 reftlefsnefs of celibacy : it fills life with a thoufand 

 delicious perfpeftives, by difplaying, in futurity, 

 the moft defirable of unions : it augments, in the 

 heart of two youthful lovers, a relifh for ftudy, and 

 a tafte for domeflic employments. What pleafure 

 muft it afford a young man, tranfported with the 

 fcience which he has derived from his mafters, to 

 repeat the lefTons of it to the fair one whom he 

 loves ! What delight to a young and timid female, 

 to fee herfelf diftinguifhed amidft her companions, 

 and to hear the value, and the graces, of her little 

 ikill and induflry, exalted by the tongue of her 

 lover ! 



A young man, deftined one day to reprefs, on 

 the tribunal, the injuftice of men, is enchanted, 

 amidft the labyrinths of Law, to behold his mif- 

 trefs embroidering for him, the flowers which are 

 to decorate the afylum of their union, and to pre- 

 fent him with an image of the beauties of Nature, 

 of which the gloomy honours of his ftation are 

 going to deprive him for life. Another, devoted 

 to conduit the flame of war to the ends of the 

 Earth, attaches himfelf to the gentle fpirit of his 

 female friend, and flatters himfelf with the thought 

 that the mifchief which he may do to mankind, 



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