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OR

REFLECTIONS

ON

KNOWLEDGE, VIRTUE, AND HAPPINESS;

CHIEFLY IN REFERENCE TO

A LIFE OF RETIREMENT

IN THE COUNTRY.

By ELY BATES, Esq.

Quid tibi vitandum præcipuè existimes, quæris? turbam. Ego certè con-
fiteor imbecillitatem meam. Nunquam mores quos extuli, refero. Ali-
quid ex eo quod composui, turbatur; aliquid ex his quæ fugavi, redit.-
Inimica est multorum conversatio.
Senec. Epist. 7.

THIRD EDITION.

LONDON:

Printed by A. Strahan, New-Street Square ;

FOR LONGMAN AND REES, PATER-NOSTER ROW.

1804.