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*7 ’ flit Thath been Said; by them of old : -. ‘2" time, than Shah; perform thine oaths;

i ‘i but I seruntojou, sWear not at all;-

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Industry; now “seeks those countries.

where the industrious manwill be

under' no apprehensions of seeing the firodjuée of aeentury of labour “ snatched away, in an instant, by the hand of "persecution. ‘ '- '

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