FOREIGN ASSOCIATION. 17 Spare yourself, then, the pain of feel- ing that, if you hear of any of these un- fortunate beings having, previously to their entering on, other sinful courses, been tempted by famine to commit a robbery - spare yourself the pain of re- flecting, that you, perhaps, by a thought- less gratification ofyour taste, first robbed her of that subsistence, the failure of which has driven her to a-crime she ab- horred. The evil which appeared little, considered by itself, considered in its possible consequences, is of no small magnitude. But to return. - It 'was from the land ofpolished arts that ancient Rome im- ported the poison of her sturdy morals, the annihilation of her masculine cha- racter. England has a palladium for her protection,which Ilium, whichRome never possessed. Yet onthat guardian genitis de- pended, as the people thought, the safety of the former; of the latter, it was consi- deredas the destiny. Ourpalladium is the CHRISTIAN, the PROTESTANT RELIGION.
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