affailable under the finile of ^m ^ /^ friencilhip, by whicli
the Generous and the Confiding are'too often betray«! into
a fituation beyond the flieker. of any protecting law a wound;
which, perhaps,, more than any other, hathtortuyed the feelings
of fenfibility!
Waiting, therefore^that kmgrexpe&ed aeraj when civilization
» fcience, and philofophy, fliall. bring us to a more confirmed
pra&ice of real virtue,, it becomes us to view with
charity thofe errors in others, which wehave not as yet.been
able to corrcdt in ourfelves.
If the enlightened fons of E u r o p e , enjoying the fuH^blaze
of advantages unknown in lefs favoured regions, have hitherto
made fo flow an advance toward moral perfeClionr
they are finely pafling the fevereft cenfure on tbemfehe^.
if they expert to find it in a happier manner approached
by the dark and unfriended children of the Southern;
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