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ſpirits ſo raiſed by them, that ſhe would often be loſt in delight, if ſhe was not checked by obſerving the behaviour of a claſs of females who attend thoſe places. What a painful train of reflections do then ariſe in the mind, and convictions of the vice and folly of the world are prematurely forced on it. It is no longer a paradiſe, for innocence is not there; the taint of vice poiſons every enjoyment, and affectation, though deſpiſed, is very contagious. If theſe reflections do not occur, languor follows the extraordinary exertions, and weak minds fall a prey to imaginary diſtreſs, to baniſh which they are obliged to take as a remedy what produced the diſeaſe.
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