Excerpt from The Times, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel
The character of Miss Rey holds is intended to evince the happy and permanent effects of an early attention to religion, even where subsequent Circum stances and events have been un favourable to the performance of its duties, and the retention of its principles. In the conduct of Miss Harwood, whose education in this most essential point had been defective, is exhibited an instance where the union of every moral virtue was found insuffi cient to secure the possessor from falling a prey to the assaults of temptation: had those virtues been aided by religion the mind thus fortified would in all human.
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