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Meeting with smooth words, they enquired
not after clear ideas: they fancied themselves
taught, because they found themselves
amused.

That when we can get a notion from him
how things are, (which is not always) it is
well: but that his judgment is no safe
standard for us of what they ought to
be.

Had he confined himself to the giving his notion
of things as they are, or given to giving his notion
of what they ought to be without
strugglingshutting the door against enquires, he would
never have heard from me in this manner.
We would have joined hands &
jogged on together in our enquiries in
good fellowship, if he had been
a man, a plain but free enquirer
after truth could have joined hands with.
Tis not for being in the wrong himself, but for
the high anxiety he has shewn that others
should be, or rather I might say the great
anxiety he has shewn to prevent them from
being, in the right.

Where it meets with nothing in its progress
but ... x, y and
and rugged language, it the attention is forcibly arrested
as it were and rivetted to the
subject ....... paradoxes ..
and .....
stand forth in their native colours and
strike upon the eye. But when, &c.

He [Lord Chesterfield] might have added, that
these impressions made by eloquence made,
are as sure by criticism to be obliterated:
and that the [reputation they confer,] is
of that permanency value which a possession reputation
may be supposed to be that is holden upon
the frail tenure of the public ignora inattentions
That the Author was wise in his generation
when he laboured if indeed he laboured
to keep these his lectures oral, like as the Laws
they that sort of Law which they most [fondly] celebrate. celebrate.

My primary aim is the emancipating
them their judicial faculties from those shackles in which it is
the tendency of our Author's instructions
to them bound. They will then be free
to take their own course with un....
with the grand principle of utility
for their guide. The honour of assisting
them in their progress is, at for the present
at least but a secondary hope.

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