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8845. VIRTUE, Agriculture and.—[continued].

That there is much vice
and misery in the world, I know; but more
virtue and happiness I believe, at least in our
part of it; the latter being the lot of those
employed in agriculture in a greater degree
than of other callings.—
To Abbe Salimankis. Washington ed. v, 516.
(M. 1810)