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as our common tradefmen do in Paris. Thefe Mo- 

 narchs, neverthelefs, every day paid adoration to 

 the Gods ; they would engage in no enterprize 

 till the Gods were confuked ; they would not fo 

 much as fit down to table, until the libation of 

 religious acknowledgment was poured out. Would 

 to GOD that our Epicureans were chargeable with 

 indifference only to the hand which is continually 

 loading them with benefits ! But it is from the 

 very lap of plenteoufnefs and pleafure, that the 

 voice of murmuring againfi: Providence now arifes. 

 From their Libraries, ftored with fo many fources 

 of knowledge, iflfue forth the black clouds which 

 have obfcured the hopes and the virtues of Eu- 

 rope. 



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