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Obstacles. Preamble
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If by abstracting their imperfections in conception, I could abstract
them in reality: &
f by describing them as
I could make them what I describe: then indeed would the
most flattering colours make be the most proper to employ.

Human Nature fails does not, for any thing here said, to go on go on the less
at least according to my judgment, in the as the trade of growing
better: & to this, its days being made to do so is nothing conduces more, than the knowledge
of what it is.
8. This common-place defence to which writers on human nature commonly prepare in vain against the attacks of adversaries, being promised, I proceed to enter on the subject of this book.

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Those who recognize not in themselves motives principles here
imputed, either because they are none such in them,
or, what is much more commonly probable the case, because
they have not employd themselves in learning to learnt to relish & distinguish their
appearance, will be apt to charge me may find it difficult to acquit me with having
painted mankind, & in particularly those denominations of it with
which I have to do, too much in black, and to impute to me
the .... of harbouring a prejudice against men a general condemnation <add>reprobation of men on the score of </add> on the account
of their professions — a prejudice as illiberal & as unjust as
any I have described. + + v. preced.

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