Excerpt from The Times, Vol. 1 of 2: A Novel The character of Miss Rey holds is intended to evince the happy and permanent effects of an early attention to religion, even where subsequent Circum stances and events have been un favourable to the performance of its duties, and the retention of its principles. In the conduct of Miss Harwood, whose education in this most essential point had been defective, is exhibited an instance where the union of every moral virtue was found insuffi cient to secure the possessor from falling a prey to the assaults of temptation: had those virtues been aided by religion the mind thus fortified would in all human. 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.