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fineness, and the exact share which every passion has had in working upon the several designs which virtue or vice has plann'd before her.'
[The language is good, and I declare Trim reads very well, quoth my father.]
"Now,—as conscience is nothing else but the knowledge which the mind has within herself of this; and the judgment, either of approbation or censure, which it unavoidably makes upon the successive actions of our lives; 'tis plain you will say, from the very terms of the proposition,—whenever this inward testimony goes against a man, and he stands self-accused,—that he must necessarily be a guilty man.—And, on the contrary, when the report is favourable on his side, and his heart con-"demns
