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A word or two I must trouble you with on the subject of
the 3d & 4th Letters of Attilius. I would have called
on you: but I am detained at home, expecting a Surgeon
whom I have appointed to consult with about my face.
In these 3d and 4th letters you give a definition of
the word Liberty: in those that are to follow you mean
to give a definition of the word Right. For the latter
you meant to quote my book; had it been out time
enough: which it would have been, if you had waited to published
your attack on the Dr all together in form of a pamphlet,
as you first intended. With respect to the former
you did not that I recollect express any such intention.
My title to the one of them is much the same as to the
other. It may have been half a year or a year
or more, I do not precisely recollect the time, since I
communicated to you a kind of discovery I thought I
had made, that the idea of Liberty, imported nothing
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