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 duty bound to fhew, by the belt 

 method in his power, a thankful 

 heart to his benefactor. 



Ingratitude was by the ancient 

 Greeks held as a crime of the 

 blacked dye, as tending directly to 

 dertroy the motives of mutual be- 

 nevolence, and to difTolve the ties of 

 friendfhip, that fource of human 

 happinefs, without which life itfelf 

 is fcarcely worth enjoying. 



The ungrateful, confcious of his 

 mifDehaviour, and looking upon his 

 benefactor as upon a judge who has 

 pronounced a juft and fevere fen- 

 tence upon him, endeavours to find 

 reafon for breaking off with him ; 

 while his benefactor, looking upon 

 the ungrateful as upon a monfter 



unworthy 



