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behind me , Dobbin is sure-footed ; you shall be set down where you 

 will, if not far off, or much out of my way." " Mistress ! (exclaimed 

 she) how dare you presume ?" " No offence," said the young man, 

 and rode away, humming the song I love Sue. It was night: the 

 clouds gathered, the leaves of the trees rustled, and the young 

 woman was terrified with what she took for strange sounds. There 

 came an old man driving an ( mpty dung-cart. " Friend, (said she, 

 with an humble accent,) will you let me'go with you?" 



Pride is the most galling burthen a person can walk under. Pru- 

 dence saves from many a misfortune : pride is the cause of many. 



Self-Love. 



WHEN Appelles was about to execute a picture of Venus, the 

 goddess of love and of beauty, his object was to concentrate every 

 delicacy of expression, and every grace of contour, of which the 

 human form is susceptible ; but whom should he choose for a model? 

 He had called a thousand beauteous females each a Venus in her 

 turn : but that was the language of love now he must examine the 

 fulness of their form, and the accuracy of their proportions, with the 

 rigor of a critic, and the eye of an artist. In each was discovered 

 some partial imperfection ; from assembling the beauties of them all, 

 at last he completed his Venus. The damsels, to whom the painter 

 had been indebted, flocked with overflowing impatience to behold 

 themselves in the picture, which had spread the renown of Appelles 

 through every city of Greece. " Yes," said Galatea, casting a care- 

 less glance at the canvass, " he has really hit my complexion," and 

 went away satisfied that she was Venus. Sapphira came and 

 blushed and smiled. "Poor creatures!" said Aspasia; "they 

 will burst with envy, for he has copied me to the very shape of my 

 fingers." Appelles had indeed copied the fingers of Aspasia, but 

 that was all. 



The moral is, that many persons possessing a single feature, or 

 limb, or talent, or disposition, worthy of praise or attention, in an 

 evil hour, conscious of their endowment, shall extend it to the whole 

 of their figure and character, and so believe themselves very perfect. 



