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OBSTACLES Prejuges Divines
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Accordingly, never shall you find one who exhibits
any by surplous signal and visible of his knowing what it is to
be possesed with the passion for the public good;
thatbrought fun in the moral world, by which all the other virtues are but as stars
A Berkeley appears but once in a Century; If when
he does appear, it is only to prove that if a man
comes into it with those generous dispositions, it is
the profession possible that by his contrivance in it they may be
not be quite extinct extinguished; If and when he does appear
the prejudices of that persuasion will twist the efforts of those
dispositions into such an eccentric & visionary line, as will cause them to in which they must without
effect: even when it he does appear, it is to show exhibit to the world how he partook of a precious find following onto following onto [bad]rendered abortive by falling onto his corrupted soul.
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Would he suffer his greivance to take wing? he
strikes against this or that Punctilio, against
this or that prejudice, which the rules to which he has surrendered himself have taught men to conceive concerning the decorum of his
function. A thousand hands fasten at once
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upon his robe &pull him back. He has solemnly yielded himself his reason as a slave. & shall
he dare afterwards, to assert his freedom? Short- </lb>ly has he foresworn the allegiance of reason, &
shall he do not return to range himself under her
Banners?
He has plighted his to
A a & abortive affection which along about its lapse
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Zealous, when the Bell gives warning, as for
a stated period, for saying heartily out of a book for their sake
and believing steadily out of ten thousand for his
own.
secondly ative that all may be harsh, & that the Peace of Church & state by stifling projects of improvement without noise
active, to nurse a backward family under the short sunshine of a Court. Add to the Desposition: hearsay, discretion, temperance, sobriety, chastity, temperance, & all the arsenal of selfish virtues: virtues which not by accident, but for a certainty, are their own reward;
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