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 Society, all agreeable Diverions, and all deirable Pleaures, were the Bleings attending the middle Station of Life; that this Way Men went ilently and moothly thro' the World, and comfortably out of it, not embaras'd with the Labours of the Hands or of the Head, not old to the Life of Slavery for daily Bread, or harras'd with perplex'd Circumtances which rob the Soul of Peace, and the Body of Bet; not enrag'd with the Paion of Envy, or ecret burning Lut of Ambition for great Things; but in eay Circumtances liding gently thro' the World, and enibly tating the Sweets of living, without the bitter, feeling that they are happy, and learning by every Day's Experience to know it more enibly.

After this he pres'd me earnetly, and in the mot affectionate manner, not to play the young Man, not to precipitate my elf into Mieries which Nature and the Station of Life I was born in, eem'd to have provided againt; that I was under no Neceity of eeking my Bread; that he would do well for me, and endeavour to enter me fairly into the Station of Life which he had been jut recommending to me; and that if I was not very eay and happy in the World, it mut be my meer Fate or Fault that mut hinder it, and that he hould have nothing to anwer for, having thus dicharg'd his Duty in warning me againt Meaures which he knew would be to my Hurt: In a word, that as he would do very kind Things for me if I would tay and ettle at Home as he directed, o he would not have o much Hand in my Mifortunes, as to give me any Encouragement to go away: And to cloe all, he told me, I had my elder Brother for an Example, to whom he had ued the ame earnet Peruaions to keep him from going into the Low-County Wars, but cou'd not pre-