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whom they are addrefled. She probably 

 accepted Mr. Day's addrefles in refent- 

 ment, and afterwards found ihe had not 

 a heart to give him. This is no un- 

 common cafe ; and it is furely better to 

 recede, even at the church-porch, than to 

 plight at it's altar the vow of unexifting 

 love, which no effort of the will can im- 

 plant in the bofom. It has been obferved, 

 that marriage is often the grave of love, 

 but fcarcely ever it's cradle ; and what hope 

 of happinefs, what hope of a bleffing on 

 nuptials, which commence with perjury! 



Even at that period, " when youth, elate 

 and gay, fteps into life," Mr. Day was a 

 rigid moralift, who proudly impofed on 

 himfelf cold abftinence, even from the 

 moft innocent pleafures ; nor would he 

 allow an aftion to be virtuous, which was 

 performed upon any hope of reward, here, 

 or hereafter. This feverity of principle, 

 more abftrat and Ipecious, than natural 

 D or 



