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...alleviating the ills of life, as well as of adding grace and refinement to its pleasures. CHAPTER XXVII. There studious let me sit And hold high converse with the mighty dead ; Sages of ancient time, as gods revered, As gods beneficent, who blessed mankind With arts, with arms,...

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