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On RESENTMENT. 
But as thefe affedions are regulated by a greater or leffer pro- 
portion of rcafon or virtue, they bid faired to be mod happjf 
and lading. In the mean while let us be cautious to whom we 
O 
arc .much obliged, that we may not be ungrateful, nor violate 
truth by profefling edeem where we have none. 
But where vice or folly, paffions or intereds, feparate thofe 
who were once united, dill there is fomething facred in thole 
profedlons of regard, that were did made on virtuous prin- 
ciples, which ought to engage our care and folicitude, even 
for thofe who are carelefs and negligent of themfelves ; for if 
our compaffion and humanity ought to extend to all mankind, 
the duty becomes dronger in proportion to our knowledge of 
the wants of individuals ; and, as our faviour tells us he came 
to heal the sick, not the sound, we mud never lofe fight of 
fuch perfons, whild there is any hope of recovery ; efpecially, 
if perchance the fault is, in fome meafure, chargeable to our- 
felves. I am yours, &c. 
LETTER XXXVIII. 
To the fame . 
M A D A M, 
T H O’ I have thus taken the liberty to moralize, in confe- 
quence of the condud of our hodefs, we mud not for- 
get that die was fo true to her own intered, as to provide us 
lodgings at a private houfe. My apartment had the mod marks 
of poverty of any I have feen for many a long day; but as 
deep vidts the eyes of peafants, when kings mud often fub- 
mit to count the tedious hours, my red was a perfed image 
of 
