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Excerpt from The Dean and the Squire: A Political Eclogue, Humbly Dedicated to Soame Jenyns, Esq.
Civil Liberty, it gave me much concern to find, that you had not written it in verfe. Such images and fuch fentiments, fuch wit and fech arguments, were furely too good to be walled on profe. And you who have written verfe fo long, and with (0 much facility, are highly inexcufable for not having employed that talent on (0 important an occafion as the prefent, when you had taken upon you to confute (0 many abfurd principles con cerning government and liberty, which have Of late been diffe minated with unufual induflry, principles, let, me add, which were {till more induftriou¿y di¿'eminated at the Revolution by Locke, at the Accefiion by Hoadly, and a hundred years before either, by Hooker; principles, which you fay, are as falfe, as mifchievous, as inconfifient with common fenfe, as with all hu.
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