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we ſhall ſoon become ſenſible, if we compare him, not with thoſe bold pretenders to inſpiration, better known by the miſchiefs which they have brought upon the human race, than by the wiſdom of their laws; and whoſe names ought to found as odious in our ears as their dreary dogmas have been pernicious to the world—but with thoſe genuine legiſlators who have adopted, as the baſis of legiſlation, the dictates of philoſophy and good ſenſe.

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