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quality of ranks, the waſteful wallow of wealth, and the meagreneſs of want, the abject front of poverty, the inſolence of power; hence the cruel ſuperſtitions which animate, to mutual maſſacre, the human race; and hence, impelled by perverſe ambition and inſatiate thirſt of gain, we break through all the barriers of nature, and court, in every corner of the globe, ſupremacy of guilt.
The arts, as thoſe pernicious inventions were entitled, in one
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