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drag him to the light
a plan of imposition and make way for a crew of little interests or little prejudices that stick to him [he] seeks to cloaks himself in
the Lion's Skin.
Stomachs that by long feeding upon indigestable crudities have contract a leaven of their
own, which will assimilate the purest diet
that can be offer'd them into the same mass of turbid fermentation.
Blackstone.
Colofons
Several parts of this were lent to a friend,
who thought whose misfortune or whose merit it was to think he should do good service if he
contributed to lessen the credit of a book work,
which that overshadow'd the science, much as it
seemed to him to the prejudice of it's
growth. These parts I may here take the liberty
to [take or claim back again.]
there is a profession of men to whom whatever
extensive plan is founded upon the principle of utility, must
on that account be necessarily odious.
PREFAT. X.
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