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Inserenda.
or might wish to have it thought there was something
more satisfactory behind, so long as any part remained
continued unproduced.
NOTE to p.[1.]
[a] These names are "the Law of Nature⊞ ⊞ immutable Laws of human Nature: The Laws
"of good and evil: The rule of right: The Laws of eternal justice:
"Ethics: Natural Law. The case is, that For greater precision's
sake, in a science of which precision is the
very life and soul, it seems to be a sort of
rule with him never to call the same thing
twice together by the same name. (Synonymisms,
in the fertile hot-bed of our Author's
brain, spring up like mushrooms. Why did
he not (our author) write in verse?⊞ ⊞ It can certainly be only
from an undue
deference to modern prejudices
that our flowwry Author
condescended to tread the career
of humble prose. Verse is
what his oracles like those of the ancient sages,
would have shone shew'd best in. Materials even less
ample than those he has everywhere raked brought together might
serve be enough for a decent moderate man to make into a Gradus ad Parnassum; a flight of step steps to
carry him to Parnassus. He might have got more better than
out for it. a puisne seat upon that mountain. I question whether the ingenious
Jesuit inventor of the useful implement I
have spoke of would have sat above him.
He would then have given his metaphysical speculations the advantage
the advantage His metaphysical speculations, would
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