), and who died only four and twenty years before these essays were written, after a long contest in prose and verse, against besotting or obnubilating the soul with 'the foul steam of earthly life.'

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[Footnote 2:]

which

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[Footnote 3:]

Paraphrased from the

Academe Galante

(Ed. 1708, p. 160).

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