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 Virtue, o as to leave behind me the Character of an honet Man and a worthy Patriot.

If, les favoured by Providence, or too late wie through my own Reflections, I had een myelf reduced to linger out, under ome other Climate, a weak and languihing Career, in ueles Sighs after that Peace and Repoe which, through want of Thought, I had renounced in my youthful Days; I would at leat have cherihed in my Soul thoe very Sentiments I have now been avowing, tho' I could not make ue of them in my own Country; and penetrated with a mot tender and diintereted