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To illustrate the advantages of dealing in
the good things which we, may see in others,
if we will only seek for them, let me tell you
a matter of fact. I have the pleasure to
know a lady, whois one of the most agree-
able, the most gifted, and the most famous
in America, and though I have known her
intimately for years, I never heard her say
an unkind word of any living being!

This lady has written many books—some
of prose and some of poetry, and her name
is honoured as well in the Old World as the
New; yet you cannot find in them a page ot
satire, or a sentence of misanthropy. All is
charity—all is a display of the beautiful in
nature and the lovely in character; she is
enamoured of beauty and virtue wherever
they dwell, and her books as well as her
conversation are but exhibitions of that holy
affections What a glorious thing it is to *
have a heart to admire and a genius to dis-
play the loveliness which God has scattered
over the landscape, and made to flourish
and bleom in the human bosom!

Though I have said a good deal more
than I intended on charity, stili there is