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ing thofe plans to his acquaintance, and to 

 determine to make it his future refidence; 

 and all this without feeming to recoiled: 

 to how fad an event he owed their pof- 

 feffion ! 



The folly of fuffering our imagination to 

 dwell on paft and irretrievable misfortunes, 

 and of indulging fruitlefs grief, he often 

 pointed out, and always cenfured. He re- 

 lied much on felf-difcipline in that refpect, 

 and difdained, from deference to what he 

 termed the prejudices of mankind, to dif- 

 play the outward femblance of unavailing 

 forrow, fmce he thought it wifdom to 

 combat it's reality. On occafions and fub- 

 jecls which he coniidered trivial, he profiled 

 to indulge human prejudice ; but whenever 

 by mock affent, he extended that indulgence, 

 a flight fatiric laugh and a gay difdain lurk-r 

 ing in his eye, counteracted the aflumed 

 Coincidence. OR circumftanees which 



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