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Would to God it were in my power to recal a few part years, --no matter, --my prospects & my pleasures are tarnished; --my peace is destroyed-- I shall never again think of myself with [[underline]] approbation, [[/underline]] or with patience;-- There are few characters more repulsive than that in which we find conjoined the fresh & ingenuous lineaments of a young man, with the impudence of a practised [[unclear]] .--youth if it breaks the restraints of decorum & feeling is the minister of cruelty-- it is suffering only, that gives [[deletion]] [[unclear]] [[/deletion]] [[addition]] true [[/addition]] sympathy