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Dedication.
and of the Heart to the Advantage of Duty and Virtue.
No Events, I hope, will ever belye me, in thus warranting, on the Strength of your powerful Concurrence, eternal Glory to the Republic and Happineſs to its Citizens. I muſt own however, that, with all theſe Advantages, our State can never pretend to that brilliant and ſhining Figure, with which moſt Eyes are dazzled, and a puerile and deplorable Taſte for which is the moſt fatal Enemy of Proſperity and Freedom. Let diſſolute young Men run into other Countries in ſearch of eaſy Pleaſures and long
Repentance.
