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in, that cause, which is common to us all. That cause 

 claims, and has, my first attention and best exertion ; 

 that is the business of my lite : these other pursuits are 

 my recreation. King Alfred allowed eight hours for 

 recreation, in the twenty-four, eight for sleep, and eight 

 for busi7icss. I do not take my allowance of the tMo 

 former. 



164. Upon looking into the First Part, I see, that I 

 expressed a hope to be able to give, in some part of this 

 work, a sketch of the work of Mr. Tull. I have looked at 

 TvLh, and I cannot bring my mind up to the commis- 

 sion of so horrid an act as that of garbling such a work. 

 Jt was, perhaps, a feeling, such as that which I ex- 

 perience at this moment, which restrained Mr. Cur wen 

 from even naming Tull, when he gave one of Tull's 

 experiments to the Morld as a discovery of his own. 

 Unable to screw himself up to commit a murder, he 

 contented himself with a robbery ; an instance, he may, 

 indeed, say, of singular moderation and self-denial ; 

 especially when we consider of what an assembly he 

 has, with little intermission, been an " Honourable 

 Member " for the last thirty years of his bfe. 



Wm. COBBETT. 



^orth Hempstead, Long Island, 

 loih Noiember, 1^18. 



