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84 Daughters, all dutiful and obedient. The Treasures and good Things, however, of this Life are o uncertain, that a Man can never be happy, unles he lays the Foundation for it in his own Mind. So true is that Copy in our Writing Books, which tells us, that a contented Mind is a continual Feat

After ome Years ucceful Trade, he thought his Circumtances ufficient to inure his own Ships, or, in other Words, to ends his Ships and Goods to Sea without being inured by others, as is cutomary among Merchants; when, unfortunately for him, four of them richly laden were lot at Sea. This he upported with becoming Reolution; but the next Mail brought him Advice, that nine others were taken by the French, with whom we then at War; and this, to-