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•6i6 the man of feeling.
THE PUPIL. A Fragment;
* * * * “ RUT as to the higher
part of education, Mr. Harley, the cul¬
ture of the mir\d ; -— let the feelings be
awakened, let the heart be but brought
forth to its objeft, placed in the light in
which nature would have it ftand, and its
decifions will ever be juft. The world
Will fraile, and fmile, and be a villain ;
and the youth, who does not fiifpett its
deceit, will be content to fmile with it.—
They will put on the moft forbidding
afpedt in nature, and tell him of the beau¬
ty of virtue.
I have not, under thefe grey hairs, for¬
gotten that I was once a young man*
warm in the purfuit of pleafure, but
meaning to be honeft as well as happy.
1 had
THE PUPIL. A Fragment;
* * * * “ RUT as to the higher
part of education, Mr. Harley, the cul¬
ture of the mir\d ; -— let the feelings be
awakened, let the heart be but brought
forth to its objeft, placed in the light in
which nature would have it ftand, and its
decifions will ever be juft. The world
Will fraile, and fmile, and be a villain ;
and the youth, who does not fiifpett its
deceit, will be content to fmile with it.—
They will put on the moft forbidding
afpedt in nature, and tell him of the beau¬
ty of virtue.
I have not, under thefe grey hairs, for¬
gotten that I was once a young man*
warm in the purfuit of pleafure, but
meaning to be honeft as well as happy.
1 had
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