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his ſylvan ſtate to that of civilization, till the gradual improvements of art, on this glorious pinnacle of independence, have at length placed him free from every tender link, free from every lovely prejudice of nature, and an enemy to life and happineſs through all their various forms of exiſtence.
But, famed for wiſdom perhaps at a period more remote than what we claim as the æra of our creation, Hindoſtan never affected thoſe pernicious arts, on which
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