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9. In the Eaft, where the warmth of the climate makes cleanliness more immediately neceffary than in colder countries, it is made one part of their religion; the Jewish law (and the Mahometan, which in fome things, copies after it) is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites of the like nature. Though there is the above named convenient. resfon to be affigned for thefe ceremonies, the chief intention, undoubtedly, was to tipify inward purity and cleanliefs of heart by thofe outward washings.

10. We read feveral injunctions of this kind in the book of Deuteronomy, which confirm this truth, and which are but ill accounted for by faying, as fome do, that they were only inftituted for convenience in the defert, which otherwife could not have been habitable for fo many years.

11. I fhall conclude this effay with a ftory which I have fomewhere read in an account of Mahometan fuperftition. A Dervile of great fanctity one morning had the misfortune as he took up a chryftal cup, which was confecrated to the prophet, to let it fall upon the ground, and dafli it to pieces. His fon coming in fome time after, he ftretched out his hand to blefs-him, as his manner was every morning; but the youth going out fumbled over the threshold and broke his aun. As the old man wondered at thefe events, a caavan paffed by in its way from Mecca. The dervife approached it to beg a blefling; but as he ftroked one of the holy camels, he received a kick from the beaft, that forely bruifed him. His forrow and amazement encreafed upon him, till he recollected that, through hurry and inadvertency, he had that morning come abroad without wafhing his hands.

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Table of Contents.

ULES for Reading and Speaking,

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General directions for expressing the passions, 8

Examples for illustrating do.

Select Sentences for forming the morals,

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The Cobler and his Son,

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Volcanoes of Iceland, Encyclopædia.

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Extract from Dawe's Oration,

General Washington's Resignation at the close

of the war,

Singular instance of patriotism, Hume.
Address to the inhabitants of New-Hampshire,
Belknap.

Conjugal Affection, Haller.

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Story of Logan, a Mingo Chief, Jefferson. Speech of a Scythian Ambassador to Alexander, 76 Putnam and the Wolf, Humphrey.

The aged prisoner released from the Bas-
tile, Mercier.

Description of the falls of Niagara, Ellicot.
The Captivity of Mrs. Howe, Gay.
The Whistle, Franklin.

History of Pocahontas, Chastellaux.
Emilius, or Domestic Happiness, Webster,
Emilia, or the happiness of retirement, do.

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