OF PIOUS LADIES. 207 sertion of another class, not of home only, but of country ! Upon the whole, . though we would carefully guard against both, yet we must confess, in the present state of things, it is not so much a little. excess of zeal in one quarter, as the - visible growth of dissipation in another, which " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" and truly_ happy should we be, if the pen of the ready writers, so frequently employed against the minor, would occasionally be exerted against the greater excess:. * * * The opening of the nineteenth century has been a period for the display of ex- traordinary energies, exerted in every sort of direction, They had been power- fully exerted in bringing on the late revolution. -All the energies of France, whether in science, talent, wit, or wealth, were combined in one huge engine for the establishment of atheism on the proposed ruins of Christ and his
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