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These say, our opinions are the truth. Nay
not so, say the others, but our opinions. Who
shall decide between us them? No one. No one either
upo in heaven or upon earth. One may
wait till doomsday with an a dead ox and
upon a slab of stone, before for fire will
come from heaven and wait till Doomsday. to burn it up. Miracles are long since ceased These
Ours are not days in which any such judgement
can be had [to settle disputes
between fanatic priests] as was given between
the priests of Adonan and the priests of
Baal.
Memorandum. Put all these obnoxious passages
in the mouth of a Deist- and mark
them <add>all along with inverted commas.</add> What considerations he may have to offer on the
question of political utility we may stay & let him hear
after since he is as much interested in it, and
may feel himself as much interested in it as
any other.
The contempt for a person is apt to extend itself
to his opinions, and in consequence as a part of them to
his instructions. for in short what is it that
can be the object of contempt any more than
of esteem but either his actions or his opinions?
good things fall into contempt with the teacher
and the rest of his instructions.
Had he known how to have placed them in
their proper foundation, had he rested them
on the principle of utility, they would have
stuck. whatever had become of the rest which had no such foundation. But this is not to be expected
from a College Tutor. Blinded and impelled
by prejudices, he can see knows no better
ground for them his own than authority, at least than the opinion
of what he calls the world, that is the minute
part of it that comes under his own eye, men
of the like station and character with himself. v.B
SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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For a Title. Subscriptions a State-prison.
What good Christianity is likely d to do,
they destroy - the mischief of it they cherish
and exasperate.
Woolaston's answerer
challenged.
What Phineas will stand forth up in the new gap
this book has made? Stand up Come forth .....
of the virtuous and candid Woolaston. There With
book discovers <add>expresses</add> has no small inconsiderable portion of the wit of Swift,
and at least an equal proportion of his, narrowmindedness,
& spleen & disingenuity and ill nature.
Allied with probity
and with discernment
it might make thee
respectable. estimable.
In thy misemploy'd
& little-noticed scarce all the spirits of thy
phlegmatic party seem concerned. Put on
thy helmet, grasp thy lance, keep aloof
from the body of the argument as from thy
grave, and try here as those <add>what</add> whether there canst cut off
some straggling expression to make thy feast upon.
Tutors contemptible -
good instructions
shaken
off with the
bad.
In young minds from respect once shaken, the
transition is not difficult, to contempt: that
A character of supported
falshood
A man who all his life long has been and
will continue to be acting a part, is a
character that is and must ever be contemptible.
contempt once conceived is apt not to confine
itself to the proper parts of a character,
that exerted it but to extend itself to the indiscriminately
to the whole: it extends itself to
the whole mass of the man's opinions, and to
his instructions as part of them; the more particularly
to his instructions from the disgust
many of them must may have given by the futility
of the matter, and many others by the stupidity
of the manner.
Now among the many useless or pernicious things
the Tutor may have taught his pupil, some
he must have taught, to save his own credit
that are good: the mischief therefore is, that these
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