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Excerpt from Discourse on Education: Delivered at Braintree, Thursday, Oct; 24, 1839
Men and women of Braintree! I have lived eight years longer in this world of vicissitudes and cares, than David Hume had lived when he felt himself bound to assume this style, and when he considered it as investing him with the privilege of speaking more boldly his sentiments, than he might have done while speaking in the present tense.
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