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upon FOLLY. ar His Education, or of his Country; fo as. thedirty halfdrown’d Hollander would not re: move into the Pleafant Plains. of Italy, the rude Thracian would‘not change his Boggy Soil for the beft Seat in Athens, nor the brutifh Scythian quit his Thorny Defarts to And Oh, the incomparable Contrivance of Nature, who has ordered! all: Things in ſo even a Method, that where-ever ſhe has been lefs Bountiful in her Gifts, there fhe makes: it up with a larger Doſe of. Self Love, which ſupplies the former Defe&s;. and makes all. even. To. enlarge: farther; I may well prefume to avery that there are no confiderable but whatl am the refpeAive Author:and Manager of: As firſt, what is more Lofty and: Heroical than War? And yet, what is. more Foolifh than for fome petty, trivial Affront to: take füch a Revenge as both Sides fhall be fare tobe Loofers, and where the Quarrel muft: be decided at the Price of fo many Limbs and: Students, as by Drudging at the Oars of Wifvity? No, the only Ufe: is of: blunt fturdy Fellows that have little of Wit, and: fo the: the Camp which he gained. in the Pulpit. But Counfel, Deliberation and Advice, (lays
