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 bottle, in his life time. And I could have been well pleased to have been informed by you, Sir, that, before his death, he had ceased to number among his happy effusions tracts of this kind and tendency.

For—(let me come a little closer to you, Doctor, if you please, upon this subject—Don't be under any apprehensions—my name does not begin with a B—) Are you sure, and can you make us sure, that there really exist no such things as a, and a future state of rewards and punishments? If so, all is well. Let us then, in our last hours, read author:Lucian of Samosata, and play