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Dedication.
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Virtue, ſo as to leave behind me the Character of an honeſt Man and a worthy Patriot.
If, leſs favoured by Providence, or too late wiſe through my own Reflections, I had ſeen myſelf reduced to linger out, under ſome other Climate, a weak and languiſhing Career, in uſeleſs Sighs after that Peace and Repoſe which, through want of Thought, I had renounced in my youthful Days; I would at leaſt have cheriſhed in my Soul thoſe very Sentiments I have now been avowing, tho' I could not make uſe of them in my own Country; and penetrated with a moſt tender and diſintereſted Af-
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