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Chap. 7. frivolous account that I thus distinguish. Forasmuch, as indeed that Man mourns otherwise and in a different Fashion who laments the Calamity of his Country, the Exile and Destruction of many; than he who only sighs for his own misfortunes. Add to this, that from each of these do arise different Distempers, and if I mistake not, the more grievous and durable from the former. For most of us are concern'd in Publick Calamities; whether it is that they rush upon us with an impetuous vehemence: Or as it were in a form'd Battalia do overwhelm the Opposer, or rather that they flatter us with a kind of Ambition, that keeps us ignorant and insensible, that through them a sickness is bred in our Minds. For whoever he is that bows under a private Grief, he must of necessity acknowledge his vice and weakness; although he amend it not, for what excuse hath he? But he who falls Rh