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Excerpt from Miscellanies: In Prose and Verse; Containing the Triumph of the Wise Man Over Fortune, According to the Doctrine of the Stoics and Platonists; The Creed of the Platonic Philosopher; A Panegyric on Sydenham
I Rejoice in the opportunity which is now afforded me of presenting to the liberal Reader a specimen of that heroic virtue, which was once taught in the porch and the academy, and which its preceptors once no less happily possessed than splendidly promulgated. The sentiments, indeed, contained in the following Dissertation are so truly sublime, and so calculated to raise man, even in his present degraded state, above the ordinary condition of humanity, that they evidently prove themselves to be the progeny of genuine philosophy and genuine religion, which always amicably and inseparably accompany each other.
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