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  [34] Writing on to him.

  [35] Her Flight.

  [36] See Vol. III. p. 358.

  [37] Spectator, Vol I. No XL.

  [38] Yet in Tamerlane, two of the most amiable characters, Moneses andArpasia, suffer death.

  [39] See Spect. Vol. VII. No 548.

  [40] A caution that our Blessed Saviour himself gives in the case of theEighteen persons killed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, Luke xiii. 4.

  [41] _Vitiis nemo sine nascitur: optimus ille Qui minimis urgetur----._

  [42] Rapin, on Aristotle's Poetics.

  [43] Psalm lxxiii.

  [44] See Vol. VII. p. 301, 302.

  [45] Ibid. p. 315.

  [46] See Vol. VI. p. 268.

  [47] And here it may not be amiss to remind the Reader, that so early inthe Work as Vol. II. p. 159, 160, the dispensations of Providence arejustified by herself. And thus she ends her Reflections--"I shall notlive always--May my Closing Scene be happy!"

  She had her wish. It was happy.

  [48] Vol. VII. p. 64, 65, of the First Edition; and Vol. VI. p. 305 ofthis.

  [49] Vol. IV. p. 122.

  [50] Vol. VI. p. 10.

  [51] Vol. VI. p. 14.

  [52] Vol. VI. p. 71.

  [53] Vol. VII. p. 244.

  [54] See Vol. I. p. 314-319, and Vol. III. p. 44, 45.

  [55] Vol. I. p. 363.

  [56] Vol. VI. p. 1.

  [57] Vol. VI. p. 71.

  [58] Vol. VII. p. 197.

  [59] Vol. IV. p. 302.

  [60] This quotation is translated from a Critique on the History ofCLARISSA, written in French, and published at Amsterdam. The wholeCritique is rendered into English, and inserted in the Gentleman'sMagazine of June and August 1749. The author has done great honour in itto the History of Clarissa; and as there are Remarks published with it,answering several objections made to different passages by that candidForeigner, the Reader is referred to the aforesaid Magazines, for both.

  [61] See Vol. III. p 287, 288.

  [62] See Vol. VI. p. 274. See also her Mother's praises of her to Mrs.Norton, Vol. I. p. 251.

  [63] See Vol. VII. p. 278-280.