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SECT. VII. Of Government in general. Inserenda.

This short enquiry, short as it is, which might
have stood any where else as where well as where he has
put it, I shall pass by for the present: and
go on with the definition.

He may say what he pleases about nature and reason,
but to understand or imply a thing as
existing, which according to his own account
never did, is what I will on his own account he shall never have
my leave for. If Without a licence to see If he has a license to take
what suits him [he finds convenient to him] to be for true, at the
same time that he says he is its not true, he may has
no use for such a contract as well suppos understand and imply whatever
it is he wants to make out of it such a contract out by the help of it.
as the contract itself. But it is the way with Lawyers, and
above all with this Lawyer, can never speak they can no more [know not how to
speak at their ease without a fiction in their mouths,
[no more] than Demosthenes without his pebbles.
Such is the power of professional prejudices
to deprave the understanding.

They feed upon untruths, as the Turks do upon
opium, at first from choice and with their eyes
open, afterwards by habit, till at length they
lose all shame, avow it for what it is, and
swallow it with greediness, not bearing to be without it

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