OF PROJECTORS.



Man is the worst of all God's creatures to shift for himself; no
other animal is ever starved to death; nature without has provided
them both food and clothes, and nature within has placed an instinct
that never fails to direct them to proper means for a supply; but
man must either work or starve, slave or die. He has indeed reason
given him to direct him, and few who follow the dictates of that
reason come to such unhappy exigences; but when by the errors of a
man's youth he has reduced himself to such a degree of distress as
to be absolutely without three things--money, friends, and health--
he dies in a ditch, or in some worse place, a hospital.

Ten thousand ways there are to bring a man to this, and but very few
to bring him out again.

Death is the universal deliverer, and therefore some who want
courage to bear what they see before them, hang themselves for fear;
for certainly self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the
highest extreme.

Others break the bounds of laws to satisfy that general law of
nature, and turn open thieves, house-breakers, highwaymen, clippers,
coiners, &c., till they run the length of the gallows, and get a
deliverance the nearest way at St. Tyburn.

Others, being masters of more cunning than their neighbours, turn