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ſubject with the noveliſt; reading, therefore, will often co-operate to make his fair admirers inſignificant.
I do not mean to recommend books of an abſtracted or grave caſt. There are in our language many, in which inſtruction and amuſement are blended; the Adventurer is of this kind; I mention this book on account of its beautiful allegories and affecting tales, and ſimilar ones may eaſily be ſelected, Reaſon ſtrikes moſt forcibly when illuſtrated by the brilliancy of fancy. The ſentiments which are ſcattered may be obſerved, and when they are reliſhed, and themind
