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The Benefits which ariſe
reach ſuch boſoms! They may truly be called human creatures; on every ſide they touch their fellow-mortals, and vibrate to the touch. Common humanity points out the important duties of our ſtation; but ſenſibility (a kind of inſtinct, ſtrengthened by reflection) can only teach the numberleſs minute things which give pain or pleaſure.
A benevolent mind often ſuffers more than the object it commiſerates, and will bear an inconvenience itſelf to ſhelter another from it. It makes allowance for failings though it longs to meet perfection, which it ſeems
formed
