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lib wmmgrm * fmA * «« ; a ** , m 1 htt ] peee » i * tly shew you , it had IJM miml eenmgu + iiftw of gteat ffculta- ~ - ~ * Ta mit ' , m p «| misfortune ?' * Say , rather , a great calamity resulting from a fault , hut mis * represented by vanity as the infliction or fortune ; the maia dea whieb human vanity ha& created and set up on a lofty pedestal to bear the blame <> f * tt the results of the human hydra erf self-wiil ,
mistaken self-love , envy , hatred , foible , fault—crime !' ' But the dOMaquence , my dear ft How , the consequence ? I « n m doit about the definition if you do but condescend to ftmettf mm with the particulars . Give me as many facts as you please , but the comments upon them I prefer to provide from my
< mm he * d and from my own heart . 'A very goed preference toe , if you would be more guided by what you think than by what you feel ; more inclined to listen to the eytto f isttis of reason than to the exclamations of those energetic but deluding declaimera— -Passion and Prejudice / ? Bwt the etdvy ; your « moat exquisite reason" will keep well
esoafb until another time . - * I nave eaid that Mr . Green was wealthy ; he was also * benevo * lent , so far as a man can be who would infinitely rather do no good than do good in any other mode than that which seems best to himself * - ¦* Ay I he was what I eail a strong-minded man .
''And what I onl y call an obstinate on »; for , though he was flraaia his mirpoee , his purpose sprang not from reason , but from impulse * But you have covenanted for fact and not for common * twiee / ^ ^ flsaetly ; 3 | ul I « rave pardon for haring myself infringed my
'Among the many benevolent actions of Mr . Green , was that e # feeeiyiog into his own family an infant niece whose father had 4 fed , ^ eevered with glory / ' indeed , but as literally penniless as a mmi ca » ld be whose whole stock of money was with his baggage m the laoraing ^ and , together with the baggage itself , divided among sundry Spanish plunderers before nightfall . Glory is a tmm thittgv hut it will neither hive servants nor pay tradesmen ' s fcsNei esd Httle Anne Norton , whoee mother had died about
tm&m moMthe earlier than Captain Norton , would in all pro * bftbilky have shared the usual fate of orphans who have not praMfty ejMMigh to demand the care of Chancery , had not Mr . O * ee % wi ^ h hl » usual kindness , adopted her . The marriage of ttfejeiettr with a eaptafo im a marching regiment had giwn him mh deep offetee ^ thrt Ait years he had eeased e ve » te > oe » iie |» iHrl 9 tUs 4 er , - it we * tnse that the eaptain was a brtive muud « n lHM ^ ppile « ew" eMA ^ iesMUK * He y mofe , thotigh - he wej poejfi r 00 wwsld Hot op the * eeaouwt h » f » 4 > ee ^ efcjeeted to by Mr ' Grreen ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 666, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/38/
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