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 When issues of events like these my father is waiting for, are hanging in the scales of fate, the mind has the advantage of changing the principle of expectation three times, without which it would not have power to see it out.

Curiosity governs the first moment; and the second moment is all œconomy to justify the expence of the first—and for the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth moments, and so on to the day of judgment—'tis a point of.

I need not be told, that the ethic writers have assigned this all to Patience; but that methinks, has extent of dominion sufficient of her own, and enough to do in it, without invading the