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Dr. ADAM SMITH.
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against what Religion his shafts are levelled, under that name. But, Doctor Smith, do you believe, or would you have us to believe, that it is Charon, who calls us out of the world, at the appointed time? Doth not he call us out of it, who sent us into it? Let me, then, present you with a paraphrase of the Wish, as addressed to him, to whom it should, and to whom alone, with any sense and propriety, it can be addressed.—Thus it runs—
"Lord, I have only one reason why I would wish to live. Suffer me so to do, I most humbly beseech thee,
