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Dedication.
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Magiſtrates, as a free People, that eſpecially over which you have the Honour of preſiding, is by its Knowledge and its Wiſdom above the Populace of other States.
Permit me to cite an Example of which there ſhould remain ſome better Traces, an Example my Heart will never ceaſe to think of. I cannot call to mind, without the moſt agreeable Emotion, the Memory of that virtuous Citizen to whom I owe my Being, and who often entertained my Infancy with the Reſpect that is due to you. Methinks I ſtill behold him, earning his Bread by the Work of his Hands, and at
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