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'Above all, e in the pride of

fine feeling, the romantic error of aht early to be taught, that it is a dangerous

quality, which is continually extracting the excess ofcircuh this world, painful circu ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, ood, we becos, unless we can

in soree co, my

Emily) I know you will say, that you are contented soive up your refined sense of happiness, at others;

but, when yourharassed by vicissitude, you will be

content to rest, and you will then recover from your delusion You will

perceive, that the phantoed for the substance;

for happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult It is of a

temperate and uniform nature, and can no more exist in a heart, that is

continually alive toYou see, ers of sensibility, I ae

I should have said THAT is a vice more hateful than all the errors of

sensibility, and I say so still I call it a VICE, because it leads to

positive evil; in this, however, it does no overned

sensibility, which, by such a rule, ht also be called a vice; but

the evil of the foreneral consequence I have exhausted

myself,' said St Aubert, feebly, 'and have wearied you, my Emily; but,

on a subject so important to your future comfort, I am anxious to be