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evils it muft bring on, and may live to curse pad: hours of 
thoughtlessness and folly I 
Methinks I fee the blood rife in your face ; blood that flows 
from a heart which difdains the thought of facriflcing your 
country for any earthly good. 1 beg your pardon, I did not 
mean to reproach, but to admonish : we all know how apt 
to err, is every son, as well as daughter of eve. Beware 
how you adopt opinions with a blind zeal, and take them for 
virtue : and yet more cautious you do not, under a silly pre- 
tence that politics are not your province, depreciate your 
fex, debase your dignity, and negletft the duties of the rank 
in which providence has placed you, and which common fenfe 
and virtue require at your hands. 
Whatever noise you hear on the fubjecft of patriotism, be 
afiured it belongs to women as well as men ; and that inte- 
grity of heart, is a more eflential mark of it, than great learn- 
ing, DEEP KNOWLEDGE, TEDIOUS HARANGUES, Or the moft 
flaming expreflions of the love of liberty. Education, alas, 
has taken a wrong turn, in male and female : we have loft the 
ftmplicity of our manners, and the love of our country is in a 
great degree gone with it. The expreftion love of our 
country is feldom revered, and often treated, as if it meant 
fomething mysterious, whereas nothing can be more plain and 
Ample. Private charity which proceeds from folid mo- 
tives of piety and humanity, if it is attended with an improved 
underftanding, will certainly grow into the love of our coun- 
try ; for this love is but an enlarged and extensive cha- 
rity ; 
