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 the glad success;” for the mind seizes only on that which keeps it employed, and is wound up to a certain pitch of pleasurable excitement or lively solicitude, by the necessity of its own nature. The division of the map of life into its component parts is beautifully made by King Henry VI.

I myself am neither a king nor a shepherd: books have been my fleecy charge, and my thoughts have been my subjects. But these