LETTERS, &c. 
LETTER I. 
1789. 
"All the world is a ft age ^ 
And all the men and 'women meerly players : 
rfhey have their exits and their entrances, 
And one man in his time plays many parts, 
His atfs being fe^en ages." 
I NEED not tell you, that thefe lines 
begin the admirable fpeech of J aques in 
the fecond aft of Shakefpear's As you like it. 
Thefe feven ages are, that of the infant, the 
fchool-boy, the lover, the foldier, the juf- 
tice, the pantaloon, and fecond childhood. 
This divifion is poetically juft; but it is not 
generally applicable. The three material 
epockas in the life of a man liberally educat- 
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