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where one might at leaft find .to the honour of humanity, Mi 



degeneracy joined to an amiable innocence and primitive fimpUcIty 

 my fpirits were damped by this unexpeaed fcene of immorality 

 and/elfiflmefs, in a family where I leaft expeded to hear of it. 



The principles of chaility we found however, in many families, 

 exceedingly well underflood and pra^ifed, to the great fatisfadion 

 of ail thofe Europeans in whofe hearts lewdnefs had not yet 



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effaced every notion of purity and morality. I have with tranfport 

 i^^w many fine women, who with a modefty mixed with politenefs, 

 -which would have graced the mofi: exalted charaders of our polite 



nations, refufe the greateft and moil tempting offers made them 



by our forward youths; often they 



excufed themfelves with a 



fimple tirra-tane, 

 fmiled and declined 



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obferve that a nation flill enjoying that jufi: and noble fimphcity 

 of manners, Hving in large houfes with feveral families together, 



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in the midil of their children, .cannot conceal certain aftions, 

 which none of our Europeans, who have feelings and breeding, 

 wiihed to commit in fo great companies ; this naturally .makes all 

 their children ac(juainted with tranfadlions of which fome European 

 . matrons perhaps may have no ideas, nor has love, and all its con- 



comitant. 



and mofl myilerious endearments, enjoyments, and 



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confequences, ever been ftampcd in thefe happy ifles with a notion 



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