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learned to arrange our thoughts, to dired: them 

 towards futurity, to aflume a kind of confiftency 

 of charad:er fimilar to that ftate at which we 

 are ultimately deflined to arrive. Confidering 

 the duration of life in this point of view, which 

 is the only real one, at the age of 25, we have 

 pafTed one fourth of our days, at the age of 38, 

 one half, and, at the age of 56, three fourths. 



END O V VOLUME II. 



