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 Conduct, had nothing to fear whatever he attempted, and would have been more powerful than the King himelf. But there was very little Danger that a Man, capable of putting up on uch an Occaion with uch a Privilege, hould make an ill Ue of it. In fact, it does not appear that this Right ever caued the leat Diturbance in the Kingdom, either by the age Otanes, or any of his Decendants.

Pag. xlv.

(2.) From my firt etting out, I build with Confidence upon one of thoe Authorities which Philoophers repect, becaue derived from olid and ublime Reaons, which they, and they alone, are capable of dicovering and feeling.

"Whatever Interet we may have to know ourelves, I doubt if we do not know much better thoe Things which make no Part of us. Provided by Nature with Organs olely adapted to our Preervation, we employ them merely to receive foreign Impreions; all our Care is to exit without ourelves; too much taken up in multiplying the Functions of our Senes