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ifi all around buildings in good order; a well sct- 
44 tied manufacture and household ; plantations 
44 that answer your advances, and abundantly re- 
44 pay your toils ; happy servants ; cattle in good 
44 plight ; and to be able to say to yourself, 
44 in the calm and recollection of self-applauding 
44 conscience, I have created all this,—Nature, 
44 Heaven, and Earth, my Country, and my Fel- 
44 low-citizens, smile at my labour and success. If 
44 I am remote from the pleasures of a boisterous 
44 vain world, I am secure also from its intrigues 
44 and corruption ; my days glide along without 
44 trouble ; my nights are free from the dreams of 
44 ambition and the pangs of remorse ; nothing 
44 breaks my slumbers but the tender cares due to 
44 suffering humanity : the wishes of those around 
44 me are for the duration of my existence ; and, 
44 when that shall be peaceably terminated, my 
44 servants will sprinkle my grave with their tears ; 
44 my children or heirs will bless for ever the good 
<4 man, to whose toils they find themselves indebt- 
44 ed for their comfort and bliss. 
44 Ask any reasonable man, if happiness does 
44 not exist in such a situation, is there any un- 
44 der heaven where it can be found ? ”— 
To conclude.—As I asserted in my Prefatory 
Address, the present work was not originally 
intended for publication, but merely as a Guide to 
my own Manager. It has 'grown imperceptibly 
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