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Excerpt from Essays on Various Subjects, Vol. 1
I was drawn into this Speculation by having indulged, lalt Summer, a whole Week of Idlenefs in a Vilit, I made to an old Acquaintance in the Country. I, too, took it into my Head one Afternoon, to envy a poor Man, who was hard at Work for his Livelihood, mending the Roof of a-church, where he had fome Danger, as well as Toil. I, who had been fecking out the coolel't Shade, and reclining On the greenel't Turf, amid the Fragrance of a thoufand Flowers: I, who had Leifure to attend to the vvarbling of Birds around me, or in Peace and Safety might amufe myfelf with the livelief't Wit and E10 quence of Greece and Rome - would have religned all thefe Delights with Joy, ' to fit whil'tling at the Top of a high ladder, fufihring both Heat and Hunger.
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