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felicity, how intimately connected with views of future happiness.-Picture of a mother watching her infant when asleep.Pictures of the prisoner, the maniac, and the wanderer.

From the consolations of individual misery, a transition is made to prospects of political improvement in the future state of society. The wide field that is yet open for the progress of humanizing arts among uncivilized nations.-From these views of amelioration of society, and the extension of liberty and truth over despotic and barbarous countries, by a melancholy contrast of ideas we are led to reflect upon the hard fate of a brave people recently conspicuous in their struggles for independence.-Description of the capture of Warsaw, of the last contest of the oppressors and the oppressed, and the massacre of the Polish Patriots at the bridge of Prague.-Apostrophe to the self-interested enemies of human improvement.-The wrongs of Africa. The barbarous policy of Europeans in India.

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Prophecy in the Hindoo mythology of the expected descent of

the Deity, to redress the miseries of their race, and to take

vengeance on the violators of justice and mercy.

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PLEASURES OF HOPE.

PART I.

Ar summer eve, when Heav'n's aerial bow

Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below, Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye, Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky? Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear

More sweet than all the landscape smiling near?—

"Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,

And robes the mountain in its azure hue.

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Thus, with delight, we linger to survey The promis'd joys of life's unmeasur'd way;

Thus, from afar, each dim-discover'd scene

More pleasing seems than all the past hath been;

And every form, that Fancy can repair

From dark oblivion, glows divinely there.

What potent spirit guides the raptur'd eye To pierce the shades of dim futurity?

Can Wisdom lend, with all her heav'nly power, The pledge of Joy's anticipated hour?

Ah, no! she darkly sees the fate of man—

Her dim horizon bounded to a span;

Or, if she hold an image to the view, 'Tis Nature pictur'd too severely true.

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