called the upper station of _low life_,
which he had found by long experience was the best  in the world,
the most suited to human , not exposed to the  and
hardships, the labour and  of the mechanic part of mankind,
and not embarrassed with the , luxury, wordnetdesire, and  of the
upper part of mankind, he told me, I might judge of the  of
this  by this one , viz. that this was the  of life which
all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the
miserable consequences of being born to great , and wordnetdesire they had
been placed in the middle of the two extremes, between the mean and the
great; that the wise man gave his testimony to this as the just standard
of true , when he prayed to have neither poverty nor riches.

He bid me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of
life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the
middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many
vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they were not
subjected to so many  and , either of body or
mind, as those were, who by vicious living, luxury, and extravagances,
on one hand, or by hard labour, wordnetdesire of