Was Ever Poet So Trusted Before?

From All Our Observations We May Collect With Certainty, That Misery Is The Lot Of Man, But Cannot Discover In What Particular Condition It Will Find Most Alleviations.

Those Authors Are To Be Read At Schools That Supply Most Axioms Of Prudence.

Let Observation With Extensive View, Survey Mankind From China To Peru; Remark Each Anxious Toil, Each Eager Strife, And Watch The Busy Scenes Of Crowded Life.

If Useless Thoughts Could Be Expelled From The Mind, All The Valuable Parts Of Our Knowledge Would More Frequently Recur.

To A People Warlike And Indigent, An Incursion Into A Rich Country Is Never Hurtful.