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the South-Sea, an eftabli (liment fimilar to that 

 which IVilliam Penn founded in North-America, 

 in the mid ft of favages ? 



*' What a difference between the age in which 

 ** he lived, and ours ! In Penn s time, there was a 

 *' rehgious belief; now-a-days, men no longer 

 " believe in any thing." Then, foftenmg his 

 tone : " I Ihould have liked very well to live in a 

 *' fociety, fuch as 1 figure it to myfelf, in the.ca- 

 " pacity of a private member ; but on no confide- 

 " ration whatever would I have undertaken any 

 *' charge ; leaft of all that of ruler in chief. It is 

 " long fince I became fenfible of my own incapa* 

 " city : I was unfit for the fmalleft employment." 



You would have found perfons in abundance, 

 difpofed to execute your ideas. 



" Oh ! I befeech you, let us call another fub- 

 " jed." 



I have fome thoughts of writing the Hiftory o£ 

 the Nations of Arcadia. They are not indolent 

 fhepherds like thole of the Lignon. 



His features foftened into a fmile. " Talking," 



fays he to me, *' of the fliepherds of the Lignon, 



** I once undertook a journey to Forez, for the^ 



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