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    old man ' s wish ?/* w&enein after wishing for a warm house ili a country town , an easy horse , some good old authors , ingenious £ hd cheerful companions , pudding on Sundays , with stout ale

    and a bottle of Burgundy 3 &c . &c . in separate ^ tanzas each ending with this burden : May I govern iny passions with absolute sway > And grow wiser ana better as strength wears away . Without gout or stone by & gentle decay ,

    lie adds for the last stanza ; With courage undaunted may I face my last day , And when lam gone may the better sort say In the morning when sotJer , in the evening when mellow He ' s gone—and not left behind him his fellow—For he govern ed his passions , &c .

    What signifies our wishing ? Things happen after all as they will happen * Iiiave sung that wishing song a thousand times when I was young , and now find at fourscore that the three contraries have befallen me , being subject to the gout 5 and the stone , and not being yet master of ail my passions . Like the

    proud girl in my country , who wished and resolved not to marry a Parson , nor a Presbyterian ^ nor an Irishman , and at length found herself married to an Irish Presbyterian Parson I You seel have some reason to wish that in a future state I may not only be as well as I . was , but a little better . And I hope it :

    for I too , with your poet , trust in God . And when I observe that there is great frugality as well as wisdom in his works , since he has been evidently sparing both of labour , , and materials ; for by the various wonderful inventions of propagation he has provided for the continual peopling his world with plants and animals , without being at the trouble of repeated new creations ;

    and by the natural reduction of compound substances to their original elements , capable of being employed in new compositions , he has prevented the necessity of creating new matter ; for that the earth , water , air , and perhaps fire , which being

    compounded , form wood , do when the wood is dissolved , return and again become air , earth , fire and water : —I say , that when I sec nothing annihilated , and not even a drop of water wasted * I cannot suspect the annihilation of souls , or believe that he will suffer the daily waste of millions of minds ready made that now

    exist , and puthimself to the continual trduble of making new ones . Thus finding myself to exist in the world ^ I believe 1 shall in some shape or other always exist . And with all the inconveniences human life is liable to , I shall not object to a new f By Dr . Pope , printed in Nichols ' s Collection ,

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    Original Letters by Dr . Franklin . 1 * 3

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/25/