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PREFACE.
———it might be rather dangerous for the author to write with more perspicuity upon some points,———but there is no law hitherto established against thinking,———so that while he is secure from the acquaintance of a messenger———our author in any passage which may carry the appearance of obscure, gives the reader leave to think just what he pleases of the relation.
The great contest that has long subsisted between two powerful factions, affords the fairest opportunity for a satyrical writer to exert himself, and to lash any error that may be found in the principles of either, even while he writes with a laudable view of reconciling both.———Ourhistorians,
