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idlenefs, luxury and paftime. 2dly. manhood \ in 
which men are employed in fettling, marrying, 
educating children, providing fortunes for 
them, and raifing a family. 3dly. old age , in 
which, after having made their fortunes, they 
are overwhelmed vfith lawfuits, and proceed- 
ings relating to their eftates. Thus it fre- 
quently happens that men never confider to 
what end they were deftined, and why they 
were brought; into the world, 
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As to bodies, the vulgar are ready enough 
to admire them in the larger kinds of animals, 
plants, minerals and metals. But when they 
perceive any one examining into the minute 
parts of nature, fuch as inf efts and fhells^ graf- 
fes , and moffes , earthy p articles , and petrifafti - 
ons , they look upon it as idle curiofity. And 
when they fee us fearching after fuch natural 
productions of forreign countries, as are not 
found with us, their wonder increafes, and 
they think then they attack us with double ad- 
van t age = Since we not only fpend our time 
in examining prefent objedts, that are wholly 
ufelefs, but even fuch diftant ones, as we 
have fcarcely any means of coming at. They 
have 
