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idlenefs, luxury and paftime. zdly. manhood^ in 

 whicJi men are employed in fettling, marrying, 

 educating children, providing fortunes for 

 them, and raifmg a family, gdly. old age, m 

 which, after having made their fortunes, they 

 are overwhehTi'^d with lawfuits, and proceed- 

 ings relating to their eftates. Thus it fre- 

 quently happens that men never confider to 

 what end they were deftined, and why they 

 were brought into the world, 



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As to bodies, the vulgar are ready enough 

 to admire them in the larger kinds of animals, 

 plants, minerals and metals. But v/hen they 

 perceive any one examining into the minute 

 parts of nature, {wch ^s infers 2.ndjhells, graf- 

 fes, and mojfes, earthy particles, and p'ctrif ani- 

 ons, they look upon it as idle curiofity. And 

 when they fee us fearching after fach natural 

 produdtions of forreign countries, as are not 

 found with us, their wonder increafes, and 

 they think then they attack us with double ad- 

 vantage. Since we not on^y fpend our time 

 in examining prefent objeds, that arc wholly 

 ufelefs, but even fuch diilant ones, as we 

 have fcarccly any means of coming at. They 



have 



