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 them, leaving him a great deal of Leiure, he employed it to upply himelf with everal Conveniences unknown to his Ancetors; and this was the firt Yoke he inadvertently impoed upon himelf, and the firt Source of Michief which he prepared for his Children; for beides continuing in this manner to often both Body and Mind, thee Conveniences having thro' ue lot almot all their aptnes to pleae, and even degenerated into real Wants, the Privation of them became far more intolerable than the Poeion of them had been agreeable; to loe them was a Misfortune, to poes them no Happines.

Here we may a little better dicover how the Ue of Speech inenibly commences or improves in the Boom of every Family, and may likewie form Conjectures concerning the manner in which divers particular Caues might have