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PREFACE.

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inferted with an ill In- : : For I , naturally of a captious te Plato thanked

the Gods, that / ?s born in /. age

with Socrates : and for ; , / g: -ir thanks

to the Supreme, that I was born a fubjeft of that government under which I 7/-;v and that it is his pleafure I jhonld obey thofe, whom be. has made me lo r ee.

I beg one favour of my readers, which I fear will not lc granted me ; this is, that they will not judge by a ftw bears . F :J,

the labour of twenty years ; will

approve or condemn the book entire, and not a few particular pbrafcs. If they

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