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218 seek happiness in the regions of liberty, continued to spend hours, and days, and years, courting the smile of by the arts of ; till at length new crowds pressed in upon them, and drove them forth at different outlets into the habitations of, and , and , and , where they passed the rest of their lives in narratives of promises and breaches of faith, of joys and sorrows, of hopes and disappointments.

The, after a thousand indignities, retired from the palace of , and having long wandered over the world in grief and distress, were led at last to the cottage of , the daughter of ; where they were taught by and  to support themselves in dignity and quiet.

, February 2, 1751.

T has been long observed, that the idea of beauty is vague and undefined, different in different minds, and diversified by time or place. It has been a term hitherto used to signify that which pleases us we know not why, and in our approbation of which we can justify ourselves only by the concurrence of numbers, without much power of enforcing our opinion upon others by any