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mits, confirmed your Rights, and inſured your Repoſe. Your Conſtitution is excellent and happy, being not only dictated by the profoundeſt Wiſdom, but guaranteed by the moſt reſpectable Powers. Your State enjoys the greateſt Tranquillity, you have nothing to fear from Wars or Conquerors; you have no Maſters but the wiſe Laws you yourſelves have made, adminiſtered by upright Magiſtrates of your own chuſing; you are neither rich enough to be enervated by Luxury, and loſe in the purſuit of empty Pleaſures the taſte of genuine Happineſs and ſolid Virtue, nor yet poor enough to require from Strangers any Supplement to the
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