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give themselves up to this propensity, know not 

 how to be contented with the constant and con- 

 tinued sufficiency with which Providence may have 

 blessed them : their minds are haunted with the 

 prospect of becoming rich, and their impatient 

 craving tempers are perpetually prompting them to 

 try to obtain their object all at once. They lose all 

 present enjoyment in remotely contemplating the 

 future; and while they are shewing by their con- 

 duct how insensible they are to the bounty of 

 Providence, they are at the same time laying the 

 foundation of their own unhappiness. 



