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The explicit manner in which their artifices
are mentioned may seem singular; it may
seem imprudent. Unless mentioned here, it may
be thought, they might not have occurred: ift
is putting armour into the hands of the
enemy.

These considerations did not weigh with me.
I have no such opinion of myself as that any
devices that could have excused the penetration
of those whose are interested is against
or reformation, should occur to me. When of
the most consummate talents, added to the
most exercised experiences are of the number. The interest

that note uponurges them is strong & manifest.

Yet farther: so far from apprehending any pairing from
such openness, I should hope from it.
There are some men who from their talents
and characters or situations cannot be neutral. One
way or other, when any affair of importance
is brought on the carpet, they
must take a leading part, " A very little
matter may be enough to determine whether
it shall find in him the most active of his
of its opposers or the most active of his
opposers patrons. Such was to Charles 2d.
He examined consider'd: and finding thinking it not safe to
be his greatest enemy, became his greatest
benefactor.

Make it appear to turn impossible impracticable to combat
it with advantage, and they range themselves
on its side. It would be made appear
could all the strategems manoeuvres practicable to
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It is truth onlyalone that can dare to deal thus plainlyopenly.
and truth I think cannot fail to gain by
it At least it is he who is pursuaded of his having In his truth
that can venture upon it.

—

But were to devices here supposedspoken of ever so
original, ever so unlikely to be thought of I
should have no apprehension of any ill effect
from them intimated in such a manner?
Little does enemy by intelligence at a
post which at the same time that it is point
out to them appear, and by the very fact of it's being
pointed out to them, is maderendered to be untenable

In every

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