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SABBATH
As gravity & a grey beard is mistaken for
wisdom so is sadness and a black Coat for
Virtue.
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OBST. DIVINES.
They fail not to perceive that men cannot grow wiser
to the great concerns of Society, but at their expence:
hence an instinctive hatred of all such
wisdom.
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DIVINES Adverse to improvement.
I know that [in virtue of the necessary constitution
of man's nature,] the every plan of
extensive & liberal improvement, & this [consequently therefore] if haply
it should be found to come up have attained in any degree
to the character to which it aspires, behoves to
be odious in the eyes not of this or that individual
in particular, but generally of the whole profession:
meaning always so long & no longer
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