VIRTUE AND VICE.

A Novel.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

William-Matthew Thiselton, Printer, 37, Goodge Street, London.

A NOVEL.

IN

TWO VOLUMES.

BY

W. H. RAYNER.

What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy,
The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy,
Is virtue's prize.

The good or bad, the gifts of fortune gain,
But these less taste them, as they worse obtain.

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

AND SOLD BY W. THISELTON, CIRCULATING LIBRARY,

37

GOODGE STREET

1806.

249. S. 439.

PREFACE.

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As I am led to suppose that it is unbecoming in an author to allude to his own work, I am so much at a loss to know of what a preface should consist, that I had determined not to attempt to

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