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Dedication.
and Fortune. It is not my Buſineſs, and, thanks to Heaven, it is by no means neceſſary to ſpeak to you of the regard you owe to Men of this Stamp, your Equals by Education as well as by Nature and Birth, your Inferiors by Choice, by that Preference they owed your Merit, which they have accordingly granted to it, and for which you are, on your Side, bound to expreſs ſome Gratitude. I am overjoyed to hear, with what Affability and Condeſcenſion you temper, in all your Tranſactions with them, that Gravity becoming the Miniſters of the Laws; how well you repay them, by your Eſteem
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