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When recording her excursion to England, her orator gives us a sample of her patriotism. "England was a country for which she expressed a repugnance that almost amounted to horror." To her moral and political virtues, he adds the account of her religious attainments. "She had received few lessons of religion in her youth, and her religion was almost entirely of her own creation. She could not recollect the time when she had believed the doctrine of future punishments." As she advanced in philosophy, her attendance on public worship became less and less constant, and was soon wholly discontinued. Her disregard for the ordinances of piety, drew from her champion the following reflection:—"I believe it may be admitted as a maxim, that no person of a well-furnished mind, that has shaken off the implicit subjection of youth, and is not