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There is a mighty easy Consequence to be drawn from all this, which well deserves to be more generally obferved. If Virtue be the chief Beauty, People, to be beautiful, fhould endeavour to be virtuous; and fhould avoid Vice, and all the worft Sort of Paffions, as they would fly Deformity. I wish the more beautiful Half of the human Creation, in particular, were thoroughly fenfible of this great Truth; "That "the readieft Way to be beautiful, is to be good;" and fuch of them as are more folicitous about choofing and adjusting what they wear, and how that will appear, than about forming their Minds, and regulating their disagreeable Paffions, will really fall under the Cenfure I mentioned before, from one of the Latin Poets; and fhew too plainly to all the World, that they, in their own Hearts, confider their Drefs as the better Part of themselves.

I must have quite tired you, I believe, added CRITO, rifing; and fhould be glad if you would take a little Walk, to refresh us all after this long Harangue. It has been far from seeming long to us (replied MILESIUS, as they were all going together out of the Tent :) 'Tis a Subject that can scarce ever be tiresome; and your Manner of treating it has, in general, been very pleafing; only I must say, that, toward the Conclufion, it began to grow a little too like a Sermon. I wifh, fays TIMANTHES, that fome Ladies of your Acquaintance had been prefent at the whole Discourse, and particularly at that Part of it; for I don't know whether it might not have

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done them more Good, than any Sermon that they ever were at in their Lives. However, as there were no Ladies here, I wish CRITO would give us, who were of his Audience, Leave to beg he would be fo good as print it, for the Benefit of the Fair Sex in general; for, I dare fay, it would be of good Use to fome of them. I know not whether it would be of any Use to them, replied CRITO; but if you really thought fo, and could recollect enough of it to write it down, it is entirely at your Service; and you have my full Leave to fend it to the Prefs, as foon as you please.

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LETTER from F, ATTIRET, a French Miffionary, now employed by that Emperor to paint the Apartments in thofe Gardens, to his Friend at Paris.

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Translated from the French;

By Sir HARRY BEAUMONT.

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T is now above Half a Century, since the French have been publishing a Collection of the Letters of their Miffionaries; from all the most distant Parts of the World. This Collection is already grown very voluminous. The famous Pere du Halde was the Person who had the chief Hand in making and publishing it. There were but Eight Volumes that had appeared before he undertook the Care of it, which was in the Year 1711; and he carried it on, in Eighteen more, to the Year 1743; when the Death of that Father, and fome other Incidents, occafioned an Interruption of the Work, for about Six Years. It was refumed in 1749, by F. Pattouillet; who then published the 27th Volume. The following is a Translation of the First Letter in that Volume; and is, perhaps, as curious as any one in the whole Collection.

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