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 Rh every Movement and Gesture, apart. And this Method will hold with Respect to the Olympick Exercises. In short. All other Entertainments but those of Virtue, abate by taking them asunder, and therefore apply the Expedient to all other parts of your Life.

III. What a brave Soul is that, that's always prepar'd to walk out of the Body, and unconcern'd about her being either extinguish'd, scatter'd, or remov'd ? Prepared I say upon Judgment, and not out of mere Obstinacy like the Christians ; To recommend the Example, this Fortitude must have nothing of Ostentation, but be carried on with a Solemn Air of Gravity, and Consideration.

IV. Have I oblig'd any Body, or done the World any Service ? If so, the Action has rewarded me ; This Answer will encourage Good Nature, therefore let it always be at Hand.

V. What may your Trade or Profession be ? 'Tis to live like a Man of Virtue and Probity. And how can this end be better compass'd, than by the Contemplation of the Nature of the World, and of Mankind in particular; and the Influence the one has upon the Affairs of the other. Rh