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[The Waste of Life, 18 November 1736]

[The Waste of Life]

Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, November 18, 1736.

First printed by Duane (Works, IV, 367–70) and later by William Temple Franklin, Sparks, and Bigelow, but not by Smyth, this essay is omitted here for the reasons given above, I, 170.

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