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 For which Reaon, we hope, That learned Faculty, for whom we have o profound a Repect, will pardon us the violent Hands we have been neceitated to lay on everal Words and Phraes, which of Right belong to them, and without which our Decriptions mut have been often unintelligible.

Now there is no one Circumtance in which the Ditempers of the Mind bear a more exact Analogy to thoe which are called Bodily, than that Aptnes which both have to a Relape. This is plain, in the violent Dieaes of Ambition and Avarice. I have known Ambition, when cured at Court by frequent Diappointments, (which are the only Phyic for it,) to break out again in a Contet for Foreman of the Grand Jury at an Aizes; and have heard of a Man who had o far conquered Avarice, as to give away many a Sixpence, that comforted himelf, at lat, on his Death-bed, by making a crafty and advantagious Bargain concerning his enuing Funeral, with an Undertaker who had married his only Child.

In the Affair of Love, which out of trict Conformity with the Stoic Philoophy, we hall here treat as a Dieae, this Pronenes to relape is no les conpicuous. Thus it