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fo’me meafure owing to thofe principles of
rigid honour, 'which it was his boaft to
pbfiefs, and which he early inculcated on
rhe, that he had been able to arrive at no
better flation. My mother died when !
was a child ; old enough to grieve for her
death, but incapable of remembering her
precepts of advice. Though my father
was doatingly fond of her, yet there
werefome fentiments in which they ma“
terially differed : She had been bred from
her infancy in the flridleft principles o^
religion, and took the morality of her
cbndudtfrom the motives which an adhe¬
rence to thefe principles fuggefted. My
father, who had been in the army from his
youth, affixed an idea of pufillanimity to
^hat virtue, which was formed by the doc¬
trines excited by the rewards, or guarded
by the terrors of revelation ; his darling
idol was the honour of a foldier; a term
which he held in fuch reverence, that he
commonly ufed it for his moft facred
afieveration. When my mother died, i