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"Difficulties are attempted either for the sake of God or for the sake of

the world, or for both; those undertaken for God's sake are those which

the saints undertake when they atteels in

human bodies; those undertaken for the sake of the world are those of the

men who traverse such a vast expanse of water, such a variety of

clie countries, to acquire what are called the

blessings of fortune; and those undertaken for the sake of God and the

world together are those of brave soldiers, who no sooner do they see in

the enemy's wall a breach as wide as a cannon ball could , or heeding the manifest peril

that threatens the their faith,

their country, and their king, they fling the deaths that await thes that ain, in

atte them, however full of difficulty and peril they may be; but

that which thou sayest it is thy wish to attelory of God nor the blessings of fortune nor fa

men; for even if the issue he as thou wouldst have it, thou wilt be no

happier, richer, or more honoured than thou art this moment; and if it be