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THE MAN OF FEELING. 433
luntarily on my heart, and make me al*
moft wifh to live. I have been blefled
with a few friends, which redeem my
opinion of mankind. I recoiled the Icenes
of pleafure I have pafled amongft them
with the tenderefl emotion ; but we fhall
meet again, my friend, never to be fepa-
rated. There are fome feelings which
perhaps are too tender to be fuffered by
the world. The world, is in general
felfifh, interefted, and unthinking, and
throws the imputation of romance or me¬
lancholy on every temper more fufcep_
tible than its own. I Cannot think but
in thefe regions which I contemplate, if
there is any thing of mortality left about
us that thefe feelings will fubftft ;— they
are called,—perhaps they are—weaknelTes
here ;—but there may be fome better mo-
dificationsof them in heaven, which may
deferve the name of virtues.” He fighed
as he fpoke thefe lafl words. He had
fcarcely finifhed them, when the door
opened, and hia aunt appeared leading in
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