forrow, prevented by no other paffion, will prey, unabating, on the defolate abandoned fpirit. We may alfo obferve, that none are more liable to afflictions of this fort, than those to whom nature hath given extreme fenfibility. Alive to every impreffion, their feelings are exquifite: They are eager in every purfuit: Their imaginations are vigorous, and well adapted to fire them. They live, for a time, in a ftate of anarchy, expofed to the inroads. of every paffion; and, though poffeffed of fingular abilities, their conduct will be capricious. Glowing with the warmest affections, open, generous, and candid; yet, prone to inconftancy, they are inca pable of lasting friendship. At length, by force of repeated indulgence, fome one paffion becomes habitual, occupies the heart, feizes the understanding, and, impatient of refiftance or controul, weakens or extirpates every oppofing principle: Pifappointment enfues: No paffion re

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mains to adminifter comfort: And the original fenfibility which promoted this difpofition, will render the mind more fufceptible of anguish, and yield it a prey to defpondency. We ought, therefore, to beware of limiting our felicity to the gratification of any individual paffion. Nature, ever wife and provident, hath endowed us with capacities for various pleasures, and hath opened to us many fountains of happiness: Let no tyrannous paffion, let no rigid doctrine deter thee; drink of the ftreams, be moderate, and be < grateful.'

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