Advice to the poor, with a short remonstrance to those in higher circumstances / by James Stovin, Esq.

  • Stovin, James
Date:
1792
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Advice to the poor, with a short remonstrance to those in higher circumstances / by James Stovin, Esq. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    * i thofe in the fame fituation, and tod ofteninfolence from men in a higher; they haftily and ralhly, and erroneouily conclude, that from their poverty fprings all their fufferings,and of courfe, that all who are not poor are happy ; a great miftake this, and teeming with mifchief; for as happinefs is what all men aim at: as the with to attain it is natural and ftrong, and mult ever operate upon the mind, it is not to be rooted out, or even reftrained : the proper road is only to be pointed out, and thofe bye paths which feem to lead to it by a fhorter rout, but are in fad only endlefs mazes, fufficiently made known, that henceforth no un- wary traveller may enter them with- out
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