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us a system, orifling particular, truth, should have miss'd him; for, spite of his fiheoretic positions, mankind is a sce defies definitions. some sort all our qualities each to its tribe, and think human nature they truly describe; have you found this, or t'other? there's more in the wind; as by one drunken fellow his rades you'll find. but such is the flaw, or the depth of the plan, in the make of that wonderful creature called man, no two virtues, whatever relation they claim. nor even two different shades of the same, though like as was ever twin brother to brother, possessing the one shall imply you've the other. but truce with abstra, and truce with a muse whose rhymes you'll perhaps, sir, ne'er deign to peruse: will you leave your justings, your jars, and your quarrels, tending with billy for proud-nodding laurels? my much-honour'd patron, believe your poor poet, your ce, much more than your prudence, you show it: in vain with squire billy for laurels you struggle: he'll have them by fair trade, if not, he will smuggle: not ets even of kings would ceal 'em, he'd up the back stairs, and by god, he would steal 'em, thes like squire billy's you ne'er achieve 'em; it is not, out-do him—the task is, out-thieve him!
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