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ifie country is Mghly benefitted., and whicli 

 from intimacy of coooexioOj when oely 

 fiiperficiaily examined^ may appear to arife 

 from patriotifrn alooe. Perhaps the greateft 

 deeds of the moft renowned patriots^ whether 

 of ancient or modern times, coold the prioci- 

 pie from which they were derived be fairly 

 traced, or the fecret moti'/es which caiiied 

 them be fully difclofed, would be foued to 

 have arifen, not barely from a patriotic fi^eliiig, 

 but, in a greater degree, from that power- 

 fill and infatuating paffioe— the love of fame. 

 Could thofe modern great meOj or thofe 

 heroes of antiqeity, who are faid to have died . 

 for their country, have been foliy made to be- 

 lieve that from the moment they ceafed to 

 breathe their names would never again be 

 heard, or uttered— that . their rememfarance 

 would at no future moment find place in the 

 minds of their friends or defceodantSj or in 

 the annals of their country ; and; that their 

 deeds would be inftaotly forgotten, aod blot- 

 ted out in utter oblivioo^ it is more than 

 probable they had never regarded ad the good 

 their coootry. might derive from the iaciihce 

 as an equivalent for the lofs of life — and 



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