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On Hunting , Shooting , &c. 353 
which are at once the ornament and the blefftngs 
of fociety. 
T he Patriot, or the Citizen, who, anxious for 
the good of his country, and of mankind, bends 
all his thoughts and all his faculties to the pro¬ 
motion of the public weal; who facrifices the 
comforts of eafe and of repofe, foregoes the fweets 
of domeftic blifs, nor is with-held by the charms 
of focial conmfe, when his exertions can tend 
to relieve the unfortunate from the burden 
of afflidion, and to enliven the face of forrow 
with fmiles of joy ; will yet, when leifure, from 
thefe more noble occupations permits, join in 
the pleafures of the chafe—arreft the pheafant 
in his aerial flight—or enfnare the inhabitants 
of the dimpled lake. And furely the heart, 
that makes “ all human weal and woe its own,” 
cannot rejoice in acts of inhumanity—Surely 
the generous pafllons of philanthrophy and?bene¬ 
volence, can never infpire or accompany a cruel 
deed! 
It would exceed the limits of this Eflay, to 
take a comprehenfive view of the human mind, 
which yet is not unneceffaiy in the inveftigation 
of this fubjed. It might then, perhaps, appear, 
that amidft all the variety and eccentricity, which 
the contemplation of a given charader prefents, 
the primary difpofltions, the original motives, 
and fprings of adion, are extremely few. If 
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