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or reputation is permanent riches, and consequently should be primary objects of pursuit to the young and aspiring. Leisure is the noblest wealth, and the habit of employing it well is the best preparation for a happy and dignified old age. But he who exclusively applies himself to the acquisition of money, shall waste life under the pressure and amid the vacuity of mental poverty, and shall close his career by an old age of restless imbecility, or of painful insignificance.

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vincing evidence of the which the present age has made in civilization, than by a reference to the sentiments which generally prevail upon the subject of religious liberty. It is true that much still remains to be done; but something considerable has already been accomplished. The beginning of a better order of things is already witnessed, and its beneficial effects are experienced and ac knowledged. Time, the gradual but certain improver of human institutions, will complete the superstructure, of which the foundations have been so auspiciously commenced,

When England emancipated herself from the dominion of the Roman Pontiffs, the minds of her

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