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his connexions, and to the world. Men fo 
fortified may fay, with Horace, 
Si fraffius illabatur orbis, 
Impavidumferient mine. 
And, let me tell you, be your future pro- 
fpecls through life ever fo flattering, you 
will, moil affuredly, be thrown into fitua- 
tions, where you will be exceedingly glad to 
repofe on your confcious integrity : you will 
moft certainly find it, by far, your beft fup- 
port under the various difappointments, 
calumny and ingratitude of a ftrange, a very 
ftrange world! 
There are, I believe, few men, who, when 
they begin to throw off the boy, do not 
make fome fort of refolution to eftablifh a 
character in the world, and to act like men 
of honourj unfortunately, they meet with 
temptations which they did not expect, and 
they fwerve under afalvo, that they wifh to 
be honeft, but that it is every man's duty to 
do the beft he can for himfelf and family. 
This is a mod egregious miftake. There 
is but one honefty, one honour, one inte- 
grity, one virtue. They are all either ab- 
folute, or they do not exiftj and I appeal to 
thofe men who have thus fwerved from 
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