THE

a Povel.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

BY

MISS BYRON,

medova Gordon

AUTHOR OF THE ENGLISHWOMAN; HOURS OF AFFLI ENCE
AND DAYS OF INDIGENCE; MODERN VILLA AND

ANCIENT CASTLE, &c. &c.

My affections
Are then most humble; I've no ambition
To see a goodlier man.

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THE

ENGLISHMAN.

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We love some men, we know not why. Our tenderness is n&turally excited in all their concerns. We excuse their faults with the same indulgence, and approve their virtues with the same applause, with which we consider our own.

CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.

THIS

HIS spontaneous friendship is not more the offering of liberality than of humility. It is liberal to shew leniency to venial errors; while the least observing and earthspelled mortal of our sphere must internally acknowledge that perfection of character is a lusus nature, which does not often grace our sublunary state,

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