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 before they quit the comforts of a warm home for the ounding omething which they think better, he cannot be thought their enemy who advies them to confider well whether they hall find it. By turning fihermen or hunters, woodmen or hepherds they may become wild, but it is not o eay to conceive them free; for who can be more a lave than he that is driven by force from the comforts of life, is compelled to leave his houe to a caual comer, and whatever he does, or wherever he wanders, finds every moment ome new tetimony of his own ubjection? If choice of evil be freedom, the felon in the gallies has his option of labour or of tripes. The Botonian may quit his houe to tarve in the fields; his dog may refue to et, and mart under the lah, and they may then congratulate each other upon the miles of liberty, profue of blis, and pregnant with delight.