Excerpt from The Duke and the CousinThe lmost difficult error to conquer is pride. This passion, excited by the tempter, hurried 111 the breast of its first victi115, and she tell! And who of Eve' s posterity can say, 'that they are wholly exempt frorh its deadly in¿uence. 7 There is no at ect1on of the mind so much blended i 1 nature, and wrought into our very constit11tio, as pride. It appears under axinultitude of disguises, and is beti'ayed by a thousand symptorhs. It canses the first dissen sions ii'1 the nursery, and even lingers on the death pillow of old' age, ' and' although we are tanght to believe that it is abhorred by God and man, as the harmful spring from Whence ail other vices ¿ow, still do we suffer it to steal unobserved upon the heart, where, veiled under a variety of unsuspected ap pearances, it will assume'even ?he form of humility itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.