Excerpt from Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality Oh! How amiableis gratitude! Efpecially when it has the fupreme benefactor for 11s object. I have always looked upon gratitude as the moit exalted principle that can actuate the heart of man. It has fomething in it noble, difinterelied, and, (if I may be allowed the term) generoufly devout. Repentance indicates our nature fallen, and prayer returns chiefly Upon a regard to one's relf. But the ekercife of gratitude fubfified in Paradife, when there was no fault to deplore; and will be perpe tpated in heayen, when God {hall be all in all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.