modern Literature. ––– He read all theEſsays, Letters, Tours & Criticisms ofthe day — & with the same ill-luckwhich made him derive only false Prin::ciples from Leſsons of Morality, & incen::tives to Vice from the History of it'sOverthrow, he gathered only hard words & involved sentences from the style of^{the our}our^ most approved Writers. –––

Sir Edw:'sEdward's great object in life was to beseductive. – With such personal advan::tages as he knew himself to poſseſs, &such Talents as he did also give himselfcredit for, he regarded it as his Duty. –^^{He felt that} He was formed to be a dangerous Man – – quite in the line of the Lovelaces. –_{degree of fascination with it. –The very name of Sir Edward, he thought, carried some}To be generally gallant & aſsiduous about the fair, to make fine speeches to everypretty Girl, was but the inferior partof the Character he had to play. — MiſsHeywood, or any other young Womanwith ^anyso^me pretensions to Beauty, he was entitled (according to his ownmistakenveiws of Society) to approachwith high Compliment & Rhapsody on the slightest acquaintance; butit was Clara^^alone on whom he had serious designs; it was Clara whom he meantto seduce. — Her seduction was quite