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.«n(i rcpeotance. In z genial climate, with a warm coniHtution 

 fcd'mg heart, and an education which made iher acquairrted" with 

 di. x^emyfterioas parts of iove, even though fhe ihouid not dxufc 

 to put them in pra(!iice, it was no wonder Hie yielded to the tender 

 sTolicitations of a yojitthful and yigoroms lover^ when her own age 

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-the crime of her inconiiderate ftep, and ftill more fo, the pofllbility 

 ■€>£ obtaining a hu&and without hurting her characfler. On the 



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felt herfelf aggrieved under felf-condemnation, and was not un- 

 willing to become a fair warning to a whole croud of young perfons 

 ofherownfex. If again we confider the adtors who took tlie 

 Opportunity of expoftng immorality for the inflrudlion of the riiing 

 generations they muft be thought highly commendable for having 

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and a ftranger. She was under the protedion of a fet of foreigners,, 

 'whofe fire-arms indeed commanded reipecll ^ but thefe cenfors were 

 «iot to be brow-beaten by power, or awed to filence by wealth, as 

 is too often the cafe in Europe ^ they failed not to point the Shafts 



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