the English Nation.
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IT is inadvertently affirm'd in the Chriſtian Countries of Europe, that the Engliſh are Fools and Madmen. Fools, becauſe they give their Children the Small-Pox to prevent their catching it; and Mad-men, becauſe they wantonly communicate a certain and dreadful
Diſtemper to their Children, merely to prevent an uncertain Evil. The Engliſh, on the other Side, call the reſt of the Europeans cowardly and unnatural. Cowardly, becauſe they are afraid of putting their Children to a little Pain; unnatural, becauſe they expoſe them to
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