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PR I NCI- tiatiiig tliemfelves with me; they fhewed fuch confidence, opennefs»^ 



the Uttle trifling prefents 1 ufed to make 



PLES OF 



SOCIE- 

 ETIES. 



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and grateful returns to 



them ', they becam 



fo 



ched to me, and were fo ftudious of 



rendering me fome fmall fervices, and of warning me againft the 

 thievifli practices of fome of their, countrymen, that my heart 

 eould not refift their infmuating and innocently kind behaviour.. I 

 felt for many of them emotions^ which were not fo far diflant 



from paternal affedion and complacency, as mig 



be 



peded 



when we recoiled the great difference of our manners and our way 

 of thinking. But I found likewife on this occafion, what a great 



and venerable bleffing benevolence 



when 



no 



g 



the 



fafhionable cant, borrowed from, a favourite poet 



or a 



moral 



romance, and dwelling only on mens lips ; but when this befl gift 

 of heaven fits enthroned in the heart, fills the foul with gracious 



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fenfations, and prompts all; our faculties to exprefijons of goodr 

 nature and kindnefs : then only does it conned all mankind as it 

 were into one family; youths of diflant nations become brethren, 

 and the older people of one nation, find children in the offspring 

 of the other. All thofe diilindions which ambition, wealth, 

 and luxury, have introduced, are levelled, and the inhabitant or 

 the polar region, finds a warm and generous friend in the torrid 

 zone or in the oppofite hemifphere. Still my heart was filled with 



-tender afHidion, and my eyes overflowed with tears of genuine 



forrow 



