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Title:  Publick employment and an active life prefer'd to solitude and all its appanages, such as fame, command, riches, conversation, &c. in reply to a late ingenious essay of a contrary title / by J.E. Esq, S.R.S.
Author: Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
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Ease, their avarice, and the number of their Years: None to appearance more Wise and Religious than these Wretches, whose Apology is com∣monly their declining of power, and contempt of worldly vanities: The sole difference which seems to be between them, is, that the great Rich-man disposes of his Estate in building some august Fa∣brick or Publick Work, which cul∣tivates, Art, and employs a world of poor men that earn their bread; and that the other unprofitably hoards it up: Besides, that Cove∣tousness seldom goes unaccompa∣nied with other secret and exter∣minating Vices. But the wisest of men has said so much, and so well concerning this Evil under the Sun,Eccles. that I shall only need address you to his Book of Vanities: As for the Recreative part of Solitude, which he again resolves here into Hunting, Hawking, Angling, and 0