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"Animals there are who are more forcibly actuated than man himſelf, with principles of juſtice, gratitude, and of all the virtues. The moſt impartial principles of equity are obſerved in the republic of the bees, of the ants. The dove obſerves the moſt rigid forbearance towards the females of his fellows, and if any one of them is guilty of adultery, he is perſecuted by the others, and put to death. The gratitude of the dog is known to a proverb."—Por phyrius de Abſtin.
"Ingratitudinem hominum, a quîs, pro fummis beneficiis crudele exitium Darius pertulit, quamquam ſuopte ingenio horrendam et exſecrabilem, infigniore ad poſteritatem infamia damnavit canis cujuſdammira
