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those who had not the courage to discharge their duty, and those who fought only the praise of men, fhall be configned to everlafting fhame; when the monuments of mere human refolution fhall be no more, and the annals of fecular fame fhall perish in the funeral fire of Nature, you, my refpected friends, you, who faithfully adhered to truth and goodness in a luxurious, vain, and unprincipled age, fhall receive from the Infallible Judge, palms of victory, and wreaths of glory, beautiful as Paradife, and undecaying through Eternity.

ADDRESS XV.

ON

THE BEAUTY

OF

HUMILIT Y.

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THE BEAUTY

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WE who difcourfes to Young Men on ambition and enterprise, on valour in the field, or fortitude out of it, and other points connected with a Manly Spirit, may expect in general to be heard with attention and favour: but he who undertakes to inculcate on the fame perfons that precept of our holy religion,

Be cloathed with Humility," must not be furprised, if they should liften with some reluctance, and afterwards remark, that however fuch a garb may fuit well enough particular profeffions, fituations, and ages, it is too grave for youth, of too dark a hue,

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and too homely a texture, for those who are entering on the public theatre, and naturally defirous of ftriking the spectators by the vivacity and luftre of their firft appearance; in plain terms, that there is danger left they fhould be disheartened and degraded by learning to be humble. Nevertheless they may discover, in procefs ત of time, that they were under a mistake; that the difpofition here recommended is not only the moft decent, but in truth the moft engaging, of all others; that it is no way incompatible with an elevated character; that, on the contrary, the nobleft minds have been moft eminently adorned with it. Sooner or later, too, they may be convinced by experience, that Pride, whatever show she may make, or whatever deception the may practise, for a while, is fecretly confcious of as much imbecillity as infolence, and feldom fails at laft to incur a mixture of contempt, diflike, and indignation. But this kind of conviction we have seen attended with fo many mor

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