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PREFACE.
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with the greatest concern, had long seen the Distractions of the state, and knew, that it would be utterly impossible in a direct chain of reasoning, to combat with the force of popular opinion or to contend with those obstinate prejudices which in a course of ill-judged education are too often and too fatally imbibed.
Sensible of this ineffectuality, that great man set about an undertaking, which would produce all the consequences he desired, without seeming to labour for any, and fully expose the principles of faction, without appearing the least solicitous to detect them at all.He wrotehe publishedand succeeded, and the work is at this day one of the mostmasterly
