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inexorable follower of Justice, and in the next the
sentimental votary of HumanityCompassion—
I might have engratiated myself for ever
with in all----old-womanish breasts, by being feeling
every thing for those who feel nothing for themselves:
and by feeling nothing for those whose
feelings it is not [un]popular to care for regard.
how highly concerned affected soever
I might have passed off my sentiments upon
those who idolize in Greek and Latin what
they contemn overlookin English, by pretending to
find them in the confused & contradictory
writings of the Ancients, this and that ancient, who never thought [nothinganything
about the matter. of no such thing.
I might have diluted the spirit of my work book
in the phlegm of erudition: and+ impregnated it with the flowers seasoned it
<add>with the spice of Poetry.</add> I might have copied, and cried have I not
read? & so I might have saved myself the
This is the first preparation to him who would deserve well of human kind, by advancing the boundaries of Science fatigue of thinking.
of authoritative prejudices nourished perhaps a fortunate in our country, & in the leisure of self examination.
I cannot tell, because in his own case no man
can tell whether in among the infinity of things that are
in this book, there is any one worth notice: If
there be, I know well to what I owe it: to a disdain
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INTROD PREFAT.
the favorably and turning leading aside in every each instance
the adverse forces.
It would be m
It would be... My ambition would be to be number'd among those
who [knowing that the perfection of candour is still
how much rarer still rarer than the perfection of sagacity, & ] as wereequally
to the true interests of their reputation, as zealous
for the cause of truth, [will] care little for
whether they make the public debtor for the
discovery of it to the one,+ +of these qualities or for the acknowledgment
of it to their candour the other.
I may refer to their arguments which I had have the
good or ill fortune to have [furnished] without adopting
their impertinences which I disapprove.
avail myself principles
these parts which may be found wanting in respect to a very respectable Author
Taught by the ...
I have dug hard in the mine of definition:
that deep & toilsome mine without which+ no
materials can lie [grow] take their growth that are enter into be obtained, fit [to form] the
foundations of a Science can be extracted
let him govern his actions by the precepts of
the Law, and his opinions by the unfettered suggestions
of his own mind [judgment] I will leave this it as an exhortation
to those that shall come after me
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