and encrease our capacity of feeling pain.

YOU, perhaps, may think this moral too severe, but it is not meant to restrain us from the indulgence of those fond sensations, which are natural to every good heart, but to raise our gratitude, to the great Giver of all our blessings, and to remind us, that we hold them, by grant, from his bounty, and not from any right, or merit of our own.
AS my Emily gains strength every day, we purpose going into Essex, in a short time; and as soon as Sir John can settle some necessary affairs there, we shall all set out for Bristol in hopes of meeting lord and lady Woodville there.—What a joyful meeting will it be to me! my eyes run over at the delightful idea.
THOUGH lady Mount Willis took every precaution to conceal her generosity to Sir James Miller from himself, the unhappy man has discovered that he is indebted to her for his subsistence, and has written her a most affecting letter,

acknowledging his own unworthiness, and intreating her to withdraw her bounty, as he declares he could better support the most abject poverty, than the receiving of favours from one, whom he had so highly injured and offended. There is something in this sentiment that inclines me to forgive, even his former baseness, and to pity his present misery. Sure there can be nothing so truly humiliating as receiving obligations from those we have wronged.
I SINCERELY wish that your epistolary correspondence with Sir James Thornton may answer all your expectation.—But, remember, Fanny, that flattery costs men nothing; and that women are apt to over-rate it, and frequently bestow their love and esteem in exchange for what has no aintrinsic worth. I grant that in the general commerce of the world, the person whose politeness and attention are most marked to us, deservedly obtains a preference in our regard: vanity is in some degree inherent to all human kind, and the being rated above our fellows, is a species of flattery, which the most delicate creature in the world is never offended at. But in a particular intercourse between man and woman, we should take great care, that our own self-love does not impose upon us, and magnify the common forms or expressions of politeness into a particular address.—Do not be angry at this hint, Fanny, as it is only meant to save your vanity, for I hope your heart is not yet concerned, from the mortification of a disappointment.
Tell my dear lady Woodville, that I most impatiently long for a line from her