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misfortune that can happen to men. Not so 

 after a certain age ; such things have lost their 

 influence, and the man at that time of hfe 

 must not be held totally devoid of feeling from 

 entertaining the idea, that so long as a man has 

 enough for actual personal comfort he has no 

 right to expect others to exert themselves to 

 reinstate him in his former position. 



Thus I should say it is only in men of 

 middle age that we usually find that discreet yet 

 liberal state of mind that renders them of such 

 paramount benefit in a county. They are just of 

 an age to reflect, and, having reflected, to act ; 

 they are of an age not to be misled by undue 

 predominence of passion or prejudice. But to 

 judge dispassionately, to be guided by right, and 

 to act with prudence, though sometimes waiving 

 that more or less, at the pleasure of liberality 

 and consideration for the feelings incident to 

 human kind. Such is precisely the sort of man 

 I would wish to see the owner of a pack of 



