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i6o A TOUR THROUGH
I have observed, with pleasure, that
glow of gratitude and affe&ion that has
animated their countenances; and am per-
suaded that the warmth of enthusiastic
devotion they often feel before their fa-
vourite saints, particularly their female
ones, must have something extremely de-
lightful in it; resembling, perhaps, the
pure and delicate sensations of the moll
respectful love. I own I have sometimes
envied them their feelings; and in my
heart cursed the pride of reason and phi-
losophy, with all its cool and rasteless
triumphs, that lulls into a kind of stoical
apathy these raost exquisite sensations of the
soul. Who would not chuse to be deceived,
when the deception raises in him these
delicious palsions, that are so worthy of the
human heart; and for which, of all others,
it seems to be the most sitted ? But if
once you have steeled it over with the hard
and impenetrable temper of philolbphy;
these fine-spun threads of weakness and af-
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I have observed, with pleasure, that
glow of gratitude and affe&ion that has
animated their countenances; and am per-
suaded that the warmth of enthusiastic
devotion they often feel before their fa-
vourite saints, particularly their female
ones, must have something extremely de-
lightful in it; resembling, perhaps, the
pure and delicate sensations of the moll
respectful love. I own I have sometimes
envied them their feelings; and in my
heart cursed the pride of reason and phi-
losophy, with all its cool and rasteless
triumphs, that lulls into a kind of stoical
apathy these raost exquisite sensations of the
soul. Who would not chuse to be deceived,
when the deception raises in him these
delicious palsions, that are so worthy of the
human heart; and for which, of all others,
it seems to be the most sitted ? But if
once you have steeled it over with the hard
and impenetrable temper of philolbphy;
these fine-spun threads of weakness and af-
fe<Stfon,