278 DireSimis fcrr Kaifing Chap. 8/ 



Weight with the World, than any thing I can 

 fay on this Subjeft. 



Speftator, « Every Station of Life (fays he) has 

 585. " Duties which are proper to it. Thofe 

 " who are determined by Choice to any par- 

 " ticular kind of Bufinefs, are indeed more 

 " happy than thofe who are determin'd by 

 " Neceility 5 but both are under an equal 

 *' Obligation of fixing on Employments 

 " which may be either ufeful to themfelves, 

 " or beneficial to others. No one of the 

 ** Sons of Adam ought to think himfelf ex- 

 *' empt from that Labour and Induftry which 

 " were denounced to our firft Parent, and in 

 *^ him to all his Pofterity. Thofe to whom 

 " Birth or Fortune may feem to make fuch 

 " an Application unneceflary, ought to find 

 " out fome Calling or Profeflion for them- 

 " felves, that they may not lie as a Burden 

 *' on the Species, and be the only ufelefs 

 *' Parts of the Creation. 



*^ Many of our Country Gentlemen, in 

 " their bufie Hours, apply themfelves whol- 

 'My to the Chafe, or to fome other Diver- 

 " fion which they find in the Fields and 

 ^' Woods* This gave occafion to one of our 

 *' moft eminent Engli/lj Writers to reprefent 

 " every one of them as lying under a kind 

 ^' of Curfe pronounced to them in the Words 

 ** of Gohah^ I mil gwe thee to the Fowls 

 *' of the Air^ and to the Beap of the Field. 



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