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With what a leaden, & retarding weight does Expectation load the wings of time. --Mason What his quick mind once glanced on, it instantly made his own, --& self Education gives the character & mind a particular sentiment, & ^ [[addition]] in [[/addition]] solitude reflexion is born, --in solitude man learns to know himself, --it is there, he learns to condemn the false, the vain grandeur of the World, --it is there, man learns, the proper distinction of man is the mind, & that in [[underline]] that [[/underline]] how near often [[underline]] the peasant rivals [[/underline]] his Lord.-- it was not to be Expected that an interval fraught with so much interest, shd pass without rumour supplying the place of fact.--
