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 out Occupations till more laborious: He continues a Drudge to his lat Minute; nay, he courts Death to be able to live, or renounces Life to acquire Immortality. He cringes to Men in Power whom he hates, and to rich Men whom he depies; he ticks at nothing to have the Honour of erving them; he is not ahamed to value himelf on his own Weaknes and the Protection they afford him; and proud of his Chains, he peaks with Didain of thoe who have not the Honour of being the Partner of his Bondage. What a Spectacle mut the painful and envied Labours of an European Miniter of State form in the Eyes of a Carribean! How many cruel Deaths would not this indolent Savage prefer to uch a horrid Life, which very often is not even weetened by the Pleaure of doing good? But to ee the drift of o many Cares, his Mind hould firt have affixed ome Meaning to thee Words Power and