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THE 



fe principlei 

 tages which 



It 



■hes individuals to fcorn to enjoy ad-. 



become univerfal 



muft be purchafed 



the 



pence 



of 



happinefs of the community 



every 



poets 



vidua! a hero> who 



if he lived 



d makes of 



tries, wher6 



orators 



d 



thors, for gold lavifli their incenfe, would 



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have fuch monuments of eloq 



railed to his memorv, as are 



but too common in our adulatory age ; and had he been born with 

 thofe noble fentiments at Athens or Rome, he would have de- 

 ferved to rank with Ariftides^ Agefalaus, Leonidas^ Fabius, Afri- 

 eanus, Cato, and the facred bands, who fill the temples of Grecian 



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and Roman patriotifm. 



The w^hole that has been faid of the happinefs of the Tahelteans,, 

 and inhabitants of the Society-iflands, is not applicable to the rell: 



of the nations in the tropical ifles.. 



In the Friendly-iHands, culti 



vation is carried to a higher degree, which is likewife evident from 



the fences ind partitions 



fo 



geniouily 



ived,, and artfully 



executed between the various poiTeffions of each individual family : 

 but at the fame time their government has ftill much oriental def- 

 potifmand flavifh fubjedion to chiefs and their La too, deroga- 

 tory to that dignity and liberty, to which nature deflined all her 

 fons and daughters : the firfl is owing to the great population oi 

 thefe iiles -, the latter proves them to be nearer to that country, from 



whence they came, and where abjed humiliations for chiefs and 



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