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DIVINES bad POLITICIANS.
Men who are unable to reconcile themselves to the thought of
Tis for this reason that from Divines engaged the men of learning & knowledge by profession
engaged as they are by the course of their Studies in Habits of Humility & deploration, no
great and solutary liberal is to be expected in the way of Legislation.
Employ'd in reading the Book of Human Nature [backwards wrong side uppermost]+ + reflected from a mirror & so turned in the wrong side. engaging themselves exercised from their entrance into their - as in a vocation habit of duty in not perceiving what they do not see, & perceiving what they do not see, & occupied in
perpetually in preaching to men the sacrifice of their Interests which in one sense, & that in which
the herd are apt to take it, is impossible; they cannot arrive to any perfection in a heaven
of which that of Human Nature is the basis : subordinate capacity Ma Alliance between two parties, one of which if it interferes must be a dead weight on the common operation Mankind is but too happy, if they will content themselves with doing nothing.
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