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it taste the blefsing of bestowing happinefs ; and, fi- 

 nally, the sweet reward of receiving it. 



Happy that child to whom esteem descends as an 

 Inheritance ! who comes into the world the beloved 

 of many hearts ! Whose virtues are supported by 

 -example, encouraged by emulation, and who receives, 

 in the name of those from whom ftie sprung, the 

 pledge of their being respected ! Allow me to take 

 more than a nominal interest in an offspring ;:. pre- 

 <:ious ; and teach her early to think (he has fjuiid 

 -a second mother in the sincere and affectionate aunt. 



However desirable the various advantages of 

 pleasures of life may at different periods of it be it 

 is from its rational and social duties- alone we must 

 derive our truest felicity ; nor are we ever so unfor- 

 tunate as in being deprefscd beneath, or so guilty, as 

 in supposing ourselves elevated above them. 



The human mind, created for, and accustomed to 

 action, only languiihes in a gloomy inertity without 

 it.' 



Man, though-born with the vigorous and marking 

 virtues which distinguifti his career through life, 

 frequently suiFers the humbler ones that most con- 

 stitute its happinefs, to be crufhed by education and 

 custom. These, it. is the part of woman to pre- 

 serve ; and while from his example fhe acquires 

 candour, stability, and fortitude, ihe must inculcate 

 by her own, the no lefs useful qualifications of 

 gentlcnefs, and self denial. 



