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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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