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 for Time and Extent. We have not perhaps spoke of the Five Hundredth Part, I am sure I have not of what is actually ascertained in History; but how much of these Butcheries are only expressed in generals, what part of time History has never reached, and what vast Spaces of the habitable Globe it has not embraced, I need not mention to your Lordship. I have no need to exaggerate; and I have purposely avoided a Parade of Eloquence on this Occasion. I should despise it upon any Occasion; else in mentioning these Slaughters, it is obvious how much the whole might be heightened, by an affecting Description of the Horrors that attend the Wasting of Kingdoms, and Sacking of Cities. But I do not write to the Vulgar, nor to that which only governs the Vulgar, their Passions. I go upon a naked and moderate Calculation, just enough, without a Pedantical Exactness, to give your Lordship some Feeling of the Effects of Political So-