One Journey will shew a man more, then twenty descriptiв€Јons, relations or maps what a desolate life do Tortoises live, who cannot be rid of their shells? No man can endure confineв€Јment and he that hath lived lock'd up in one Kingdome, is but a degree beyond a Countryв€Јman, who was never out of the bounds of his parish. The moral would hint, what an imв€Јproved man must he be who hath so often gone the Circumв€Јference,Д¬rost the Lines, and viв€Јsited the most remote and abв€Јstruse corners of the world seen so many varieties in Nature and Providence, reconciled by the tract of time. The story of the wandring Jew was a pleasant fiction, the punishment consisted only in his not having a Centre, and cerв€Јtainly he could as well want it as the rest of his Nation. Men expect rich returns in East-India Ships, and men that are far traв€Јvellors, beget great expectation of their wealth if they come home empty, they bankrupt their Credit, and dye in their Countries debt, and that narrow dark prison of their pride, buries them in utter oblivion, who might have made the wide world their Monument. View, and passage, and abode in the most remarkable countries of the world. Some men there are, that have seen more with their eye, then some ambitious Princes did ever comprehend in their thoughts, 'Tis a pleasure and felicity when the mind embraces but a glanв€Јcing thought of the beauteous fabrick of the universe, and is with a kind of delight transв€Јported to some peculiar part of it, whose felicity and pleasures or wealth, have won upon its running fancy if this be so in the imagination, what delight and fruition is there, in the corв€Јporal Homer begins his Odysseis in the praise of Ulysses, with this title and character.- Qui mores hominum multorum vidit & urbes, as the most apparentest demonstration of his wisedome.

It will afford you) for your present condition. THis is in some men a huв€Јmour and curiosity only, in others wisedome and design, and accordingly they make their different returns it hath been all along the practise of this Nation, and with very good sucв€Јcesse: (to go to a forraign war is rather a transplantation then travel, passing only out of the bounds of one Country, into the confinements and limits of anoв€Јther so I reckon I have said nothing to you concerning this subject in my maximes of war,) and I cannot conceive any better divertisement (besides the adв€Јvantage

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