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ESSAI

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AN

ESSAY on MAN,

Being the FIRST BOOK of

ETHIC EPISTLES.

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Henry St. John, Lord BOLINGBROKE.

Written in the Year 1732.

Of the NATURE and STATE of MAN, with refpect to the UNIVERSE.

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WAKE! my ST. JOHN! leave all meaner things
To low Ambition and the Pride of Kings

Let Us (fince Life can little more Supply
Than just to look about us, and to die)

Expatiate free o'er all this Scene of Man:

A mighty Maze! but not without a Plan;
A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promifcuous Shoot,
Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.