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Rh Court methinks at this Time eems to have given into a Tate quite oppoite to that of polite Literature, but perhaps the Mode of Thinking may be reviv'd in a little Time. The French are of o flexible a Dipoition, may be moulded into uch a Variety of Shapes, that the Monarch needs but command and he is immediately obey'd. The Englih generally think, and Learning is had in greater Honour among them than in our Country; an Advantage that reults naturally from the Form of their Government. There are about eight hundred Perons in England who have a Right to peak in publick, and to upport the Interet of the Kingdom; and near five or ix Thouand may in their Turns, apire to the ame Honour. The whole Nation et themelves up as Judges over thee, and every Man has the Liberty of publihing his Thoughts with regard to publick Affairs; which hews, that all the People in general are indipenably oblig'd to cultivate their Understandings. In England the Governments of Greece Rh