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Other, the more will their taftes, as well as their manners be re- 

 fined. The afperitie^ of temper and character will be worn down, 

 by coUifion. They will begin to fee the beauty and value, of mor- 

 deration, and decoruip, to eftiniate and ftudy the arts of pleafing. 

 They will begin to fee, that licenfe is not always true liberty; 

 that reftraint, and a fubmiffion to rule and method are not an 

 abridgement of true happinefs,- in real life; or an impediment to 

 true genius, in the produdtions of literature. The effervefcence of 

 felf-conceit will be checked ; men will become acquainted with the 

 opinions of others, and be impreft with the neceffity of paying 

 fbme deference to thofe opinions. All this will produce an acute- 

 nefs and readinefs of the moral fenfe, an improvement, and pra6ti- 

 cal diredion of the diftinguifhing faculty, which will not fail to 

 fliew themfelves, iq a mild and placable demeanor, in a regulated and 

 decorous morality ; and in a ftyle of writing pure, corred, and noble. 



Literature cannot make a more valuable prefent to the world, 

 than views of life and manners, drawn with a faithful' and corred 

 hand, provided,. it takes care, to mark vice and folly, with contempt, 

 and the more rank and vigorous enormities, with the deteftation, 

 which they naturally excite, in the found and undepraved bofom ; 

 at the fame time, avoiding fuch pidures of grofs fcnfuality, as are 

 drawn from the haunts of vice, and are fitted to inflame the paf- 

 fions, and pollute the imaginatiop. ; and fuch black and exaggerated 

 difplays of atrocities and crimes, as can only excite pain and dif- 

 guft, and difpofe us to raifanthropy, by reprefenting human na- 



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