OR,

Modes of Faith and Practice.

A TALE,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

. BY A LADY.

There is no virtue more amiable in the softer sex, than that
mild and quiescent spirit of Devotion, which, without en-
tangling itself in the dogmas of Religion, is melted by its
charities and exhilarated by its hopes.
Cowper.

To be good and disagreeable, is high treason against virtue.
ELIZABETH SMITH.

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CHAPTER I.

MONTAGUE possessed none of that deci sion and inflexibility, half devilish, half sublime, the boast of the fallen archangel.

He could not glory in a mind not to be changed by time or place; on the contrary, the effect of time and place upon his mind was irresistible. In the retire ment of Woodlands, aloof from the companions and temptations by which he had been surrounded; he had leisure to reflect upon and lament the past. He could not resist the influence of shady groves and blooming bowers, where every object, and every sound, combined to rekindle M545847

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