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Ever defpicable in Mr. Day's eftimation 

 were the diftindlions of birth, and the ad- 

 vantages of wealth ; and he had learnt to 

 look back with refentment to the allure- 

 ments of the Graces. He refolved, if pof- 

 fible, that his wife ihould have a tafte for 

 literature and fcience, for moral and pa- 

 triotic philofophy. So might flie be his 

 companion in that retirement, to which he 

 had deftined himfelf; and affift him in 

 forming the minds of his children to ftub- 

 born virtue and high exertion. He refolved 

 alfo, that flie ihould be fimple as a moun- 

 tain girl, in her drefs, her diet, and her 

 manners ; fearlefs and intrepid as the Spar- 

 tan wives and Roman heroines. There 

 was no finding fuch a creature ready 

 made ; philofophical romance could not 

 hope it. He muft mould fome infant into 

 the being his fancy had imaged. 



With the late Mr. Bicknel, then a bar- 



rifter, in confiderable pradice, and of 



D 2, taintlefs 



