FOREIGN ASSOCIATION. 21 terials, that will not produce their effect without being industriously worked up. If the familiar and protracted inter- course with a neighbouring nation ; if, during this intercourse, the long-wit- nessed contempt of religion, morbid in- sensibility to morals, violated Sabbaths, an abandonment to amusements the most frivolous, to pleasures knit in one eternal dance ; - if all this should happily have left unimpaired, or have only tinctured, too slightly to make a lasting impression, the noble simplicity, the ancient recti- tude, the sound sense, and the native modesty which have long been the cha- racteristics of the British people ; if the growth at home, and within our own doors, of an intolerant and superstitious church, be not too fbndly fostered-be not promoted instead of tolerated ; if the paramount fondness in too many of the more delicate sex, for unbounded dissipation, for profane and immoral writers, should decline ; if the middle classes among us should return to their ancient sobriety and domestic habits ;
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