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when reaſon and virtue will not give their ſanction, conſtitutes great part of the warfare of life. What ſupport, then, have they who are all ſenſes, and who are full of ſchemes, which terminate in temporal objects?
Reading is the moſt rational employment, if people ſeek food for the underſtanding, and do not read merely to remember words; or with a view to quote celebrated authors, and retail ſentiments they do not underſtand or feel. Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart, though ſome, by them, "are made coxcombs whom nature meant for fools."
Thoſe
