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 as artifice may counterfeit, or folly miapply, it cannot be improper to conider, whether there are not ome characteritical modes of peaking or acting, which may prove a man to be.

this inquiry, perhaps clearer evidence may be dicovered, and firmer peruaion attained; for it is commonly eaier to know what is wrong than what is right; to find what we hould avoid, than what we hould purue.

war is one of the heaviet of national evils, a calamity, in which every pecies of miery is involved; as it ets the general afety to hazard, upends commerce, and deolates the country; as it expoes great numbers to hardhips, dangers, captivity, and death; no man, who deires the publick properity, will inflame general reentment by aggravating minute injuries, or