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Excerpt from Moral Gallantry: A Discourse, Addressed to the Nobility and Gentry of Great Britain; With Other Essays, Intimately Connected With the Subject
Having lighted this, though the smallest and dimmest of virtue's torches, at honour's purest ame; I thought it unsuitable to place it under the bushel of a private proteo tion; but rather to fix it Upon such a conspicuous elevation as vour exalted names; that virtue might launch out from thence its glorious beams more radiantly; and the better direct those who intend to be led by it. Narrower souls than yours have not room enough to lodge such vast thoughts, as virtue and honour should inspire and that which'raised you to that height which deserves this compliment from virtue, does deserve that ye should not, when ye have attained to that height, neglect its address, though sent you by the meanest of its and your servants.
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