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Excerpt from The Works of Mrs. Chapone, Vol. 3 of 4 The first step must be to awaken your mind to a sense of the importance of the task before you; which is no less than to bring your frail nature to that degree of christian perfection which is to qualify it for immortality, and, with out which, it is necessarily incapable of happi ness; for, it is a truth never to be forgotten, that God has annexed happiness to virtue, and misery to vice, by the unchangeable nature of things; and that a wicked being (while he con tinnes such) is in a natural incapacity Of enjoy ing happiness, even with the concurrence of all those outward circumstances, which in a virtuous mind would produce it. 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.