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tion to acquire, or to lofe ; and their elleem alfo, which I prize 
beyond every thing, except the independent idea of ferving man- 
kind. Should raflmefs or defperation carry me through, what- 
ever fame the vain and injudicious might beftow, I iliould not 
accept of it ;— it is the good and great I look to : fiime from them 
bellowed is altogether different, and is clofely allied to a well- 
done from God : but raflmcfs will not be likely to carry me through 
any more than timid caution. To find the neceffary medium of 
conduft, to vary and apply it to contingencies, is the oeconomy 
I allude to ; and if I fucceed by fuch means, men of fenfe in 
any fucceeding epoch will not blufh to follow me, and perfe6t 
thofe Difcoveries I have only abilities to trace out rou.ghly, or, 
a difpofition to attempt* 
A Turkifl^ fopha has no charms for mer if it had, I could 
foon obtain one here. I could to-morrow take the comm.and of 
the bell armament of Iflimael Bey. — I ihould be fure of fuccefs, 
and its confequential honours. Believe me, a fingle well- 
done from your AlTociation has more worth in it to me, than all 
the trappings of the Eaft; and what is Hill more precious, is, 
the pleafure I have in the j unification of my own condud at the 
tribunal of my own heart." 
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