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    As a brute I was more thankful for a mitigation of punishment, than as a king I had been for offers of the highest happiness and honour. And who that is not taught by affliction, can justly estimate the bounties of Heaven?

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As a brute I was more thankful for a mitigation of punishment, than as a king I had been for offers of the highest happiness and honour. And who that is not taught by affliction, can justly estimate the bounties of Heaven?

-John Hawkesworth

 

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