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a&ions are often afcribed to ftrength of paflion, which ought 
rather to be charged to the weaknefs of reafon. He remarks 
further, that our virtues often arife from our passions. 
“ See anger, zeal , and fortitude fupply ; 
“ Evn avarice , prudence ; foth , philofophy ; 
tc Eu ft, thro fome certain ftrainers well refin d, 
u Is gentle love, and charms all woman-kind : 
c< Envy, to which tU ignoble mind? s a fiave, 
<c Is emulation in the learn d or brave : 
“ Nor virtue, male or female, can we name , 
£t But what will grow on pride, or grow on fhame .” 
I apprehend this to be the Rate of the human foul. If we 
are not deaf to the voice of reafon, we fhall find the proper 
objedt of the paffion, and confequently both reafon and paflion 
will be employed together in promoting our own good, and the 
welfare of fociety. But if we leave reason difregarded, the 
paffions will arrogate the command, find themselves their ob- 
jects, fruftrate the end of life, and produce mifery. From the 
ruling paflion juft mentioned, arifes many of the differences 
we find in the difpofitions and fituations of men, their virtues 
or vices, and even their profperity and adverfity. It is a great 
point to difcover this paflion, early in life, and to cherifh or 
correcft it, as we find it beneficial or injurious to ourfelves or 
others. Many have been wreck’d without difcovering their 
danger j and fome have made war with nature, by a fierce op- 
pofition of their beft good quality, or loft their wits by attempt- 
ing a height of virtue which they were not capable oft 
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