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has been faid, to turn their attention to thefe fub- jets, who otherwife would not have done it,

pleafure, if I could indulge the hope that, in con- fequence of thefe hints, the reader fhould be in- duced to think for himfelf in all cafes; to refleét upon the objects he fees; to examine the founda- tion of popular opinions, and then to draw his own conclufions from the whole. It is thus he will acquire found knowledge, much better than by relying on the inftructions he fhall receive from any writer whatever; for there is no propo- fition in Euclid more certain, than that, in this Way, every man may foon become the beft, as _ wellas the moft pleafing inftru€tor of himfelf.

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fhall be fatisfied: but it would give me{till more.