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Sect. Interpretation. 26
where dignity received a lustre from the darkness is enhanced, by the mysteriousness
of the science he professes. There is another
great advantage the uninstructive way of
hacking has over this constructive: speaking
unintelligibly, he may all along keep fair with
the prejudice that are in fashion: speaking
all along the plain truth, he will may be obliged ever
and when to strike out light, [that may be]
very offensive to the eyes of those, who have
the disposal distribution of those things which are pleasing
in his own the eyes of others. The observance of their sort
of in the moral department of service,
is yet the most appeared for rising in the
world; the permanent establishment of a man's
fame not being much regarded, when if the
fame falls, it is in general not till after it
has lifted a man to the eminence he as formed
to. This sort of policy I say is not better to
cut of vogue: but I think I see, and pre—
juice to think so, that this growing disconcertment
of mankind then notion makes it every day less and
less prudent. one.
Meantime the comment here given, it will be observed arises not more naturally out of this
had of our Author than out of a thousand others
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