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Reason is never inconvenient but when
it comes TO be applied. Mere general
truths interfere very little will. the passions.
They can, until they are reused by a troub-
lesome application, rest in great tranquil
ity side by side with tempers and proceed
ings the most directly opposite 10 them.
Men want to be reminded, who do not
want to be taught: because those original
ideas of rectitude to which the mind is
compelled to assent when they are proposed
are not always as present to it as they
ought to be. When people are gone, il
not into a denial, at least into sort oi
oblivion of those ideas; hen they know
them only as barren speculations, and
not as practical motives for conduct, il
will be proper to press, as well as to of
fer them to the understanding.