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we wiſh to eſtabliſh a proud pretence to ſuperior intelligence. Born at an earlier age of the world than other legiſlators can boaſt, Burmah, or whoever was the lawgiver of India (24), ſeems to have fixed by his precepts the lovely prejudices of nature, and to have prevented by his ſalutary inſtitutions the baneful effects of ſubſequent refinement. Notwithſtanding the frequent invaſions of barbarians, European or Aſiatic, and the conſequent influx of various rites, the religion of Burmah,
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