. The friend (Volume 3): a series of essays to aid in the formation of fixed principles in politics, morals, and religion, with literary amusements interspersed. fpirit of detraction,muft be evident to every reflecting mind. It isindeed little lefs than impoflible, that he, who inorder to be effectively humane determines to beinflexibly juft, and who is inexorable to his ownfeelings when they would interrupt the courfe ofjuftice; who looks at each particular act by thelight of all its confequences, and as the reprefen-tative of ultimate good or evil, fhould not fome-times be charged with tyran
. The friend (Volume 3): a series of essays to aid in the formation of fixed principles in politics, morals, and religion, with literary amusements interspersed. fpirit of detraction,muft be evident to every reflecting mind. It isindeed little lefs than impoflible, that he, who inorder to be effectively humane determines to beinflexibly juft, and who is inexorable to his ownfeelings when they would interrupt the courfe ofjuftice; who looks at each particular act by thelight of all its confequences, and as the reprefen-tative of ultimate good or evil, fhould not fome-times be charged with tyranny by weak it is too certain that the calumny will bewillingly believed and eagerly propagated by allthofe, who would fhun the prefence of an eye keenin the detection of impofture, incapacity, and mif-conduct, and of a refolution as fteady in their ex-pofure. We foon hate the man whofe qualities wedread, and thus have a double intereft, an intereftof paffion as well as of policy, in decrying and de-faming him. But good men will reft fatisfied withthe promife made to them by the divine Comforter,that by her children fhall wifdom be juftified. 235. ESSAY IV. the generous fpirit, who, when brought
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