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available under the fmile of diffembled friendfhip, by which 
the Generous and the Confiding are too often betrayed inter 
a fituation beyond the fhelter of any prote&ing law; a wound 
which, perhaps, more than any other, hath tortured the feel¬ 
ings of fenfibility I 
Waiting, therefore, that long-expected aera, when civiliza¬ 
tion, fcience, and philofophy, fhall bring us to a more con¬ 
firmed practice of real virtue, it becomes us to view with 
charity thofe errors in others, which we have not as yet been 
able to corredf in ourfelves. 
If the enlightened fons of Europe, enjoying the full blaze 
of advantages unknown in lefs favoured regions, have hi- 
therto made fo flow an advance toward moral perfection^ 
they are furely palling the fevered: cenfure on themfelves , 
if they expe£t to find it in a happier manner approached 
by the dark and unfriended children of the Southern* 
World ! 
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