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favour therefore which he begged of His Majesty was, that he would esteem him as dutiful a subject as any he had, and acting more truly in his proper interest while he thus refused his offers, than he possibly could do should he accept them."

When the Patriot has discharged his public duties, he retires to the charities of private life. -The hour now approached in which it became necessary for General Washington to take leave of his army, who had been endeared to him by a long series of common sufferings and dangers. The officers having previously assembled, General Washington, calling for a glass of wine, thus addressed them :-" With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you: I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honourable." The officers came up successively, and he took an affectionate leave of each of them. The general then left the room and passed through the corps of light infantry to the place of embarkation; the officers all following him. On his entering the barge to cross the North river, he turned towards the companions of his glory, and by waving his hat, bid them farewell. Some answered this last signal of respect and affection with tears, and all hung upon the barge which conveyed him from their sight till they could no longer distinguish in it the person of their beloved commander.

Such is the true patriot: such the imagined disinterestedness of demagogues. Such are some of the marks by which false patriotism may be discovered :

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Pompous and full of sound and stupid rage:
Of faith neglectful: heaping wrong on wrong :
Ambitious, selfish :-while the true is calm,
Firm, persevering, more in act than show.

LIBERTY AND EQUALITY.

LIBERTY AND EQUALITY.

THERE are scarcely any words more frequently used, and less understood, than the words "Liberty and Equality."-If by the word Equality it is meant that we are all equally able to do all things; that, for instance, we are all equally good makers of watches or clocks; or equally able to steer a ship in a dangerous channel in a storm, the position is too monstrous to call for refutation. The advocates for such Equality may easily discover their error, by supposing that all men are equally good pugilists, and by trying their theory by a few practical lessons with some of our celebrated professors who are not converts to their doctrines.

If by the word Equality, it is meant that we are all born equal, it must surely be forgotten that some men are born with beautiful and healthy bodies, and some with frames distorted and filled with the most deplorable diseases ;that some minds are fraught with the seeds of wisdom and genius, and some with those of idiotism and madness: and that some men by the industry of their parents, are born to the inheritance of property; and some, by their idleness and vices, to poverty and disgrace.

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