DESPONDENCY. Despair makes a despicable figure, and is descended from a mean original. It is the offspring of fear, laziness and impatience. It argues n defect of spirit and resolution. and oftentimes of honesty, too. After -ill. tlie exercise of this p nation is so troublsome that nothing hut dint of evidence and demonstration should force it upon us. I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed: saw my misfortune recorded in the book of late, and signed and scaled bv necessity Jeremy Collier.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16662, 18 February 1922, Page 15
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