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in the Oxfd Magaz. for June 1771
the extreme inaccuracy & absurdity
for 57 Lessors
The Ivy twines itself
around
>foreign>Tubero</foreign> upon Saffron Roots
We see (Religion/superstition) like a lukerwarm factor
upon Morality and eat out it's very Heart<writings of popular moralizers
Popular Morality an conformed mass chaos of insipid declamations
random assertions and in consequent conclusions
Where they are right
tho' unobserved
and in great measure
from that right
+ It is this that still guides them by its lustre tho'
obscured by a cloud of empty hollow & unexpressive words
with which this subject more than any other has been
oppressed.
In the details they go on well enough for the most part
because they naturally & in superceptibly submit
themselves to the guidance of this principle — and accord we <add>any assignation whatsoever relative to this subject which
we approve of that our approbation is shall</add> find
upon the most rigorous & minute investigation with the regard
to every position either founded upon
this principle or upon none at all.
if we can give every precise<lb/ & intelligible reason
for our approbation of any
of them it is their coincidence
with this principly
and no other —
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