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OBSTACLES PREJUGES of AGE
Auxiliary to these [i:e: of possession] are those to which men of all classes [are more or less.] obnoxious on account of in virtue of the very constitution of their nature <add>by Time itself.</add>
The rising generation is that + + To this the most penetrating and experienced observers of human Nature give their Testimony - D'Alembert L'Esprit - Milanges Discours preliminaire de l'Encyclopedie Milanges de D'Alembert Vol. 1. 152 4 Ed. Amsterdam. De L'Esprit Vol. 2. p. 183. note. Ed. Amsterdam 1759 .
Youth is the age from which &c
Veteraus, in despair enraged at the thoughts of [being obliged to] sacrifice discarding opinions in their old age that have grown
up with them, reluctant to the task of giving an unwanted motion to springs which the
hand of time hath render'd rigid // // to disturb ralie up the field in their days for a new product of which they can not hope to live to see the harvest
Prejudices Interests of Authors No mortification is more cruel yet alas! how necessary, than that of an Author who was the subject obsoleted in which he has bestow'd his labors Who is drained to behold with all a Father's anxiety the children of his meditations busied in up in the Gulph of oblivion with the Soil in which they stand he had fixed them.
BOOKSELLERS Even the Booksellers is an Interest too obvious to be altogether omitted not if which the account who cannot be supposed when they at the the labor <add>prospect of seeing the circulating contents of many a profitable shelf by — sudden blast turned into motionless unprofitable lumber
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