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50 are now pread over a great part of Europe; that Mahomet, tho' o ignorant, hould have given a religion to Aia and Africa; and that Sir Iaac Newton, Dr. Clark, Mr. Locke, Mr.Le Clerc &c. the greatet philoophers, as well as the ablel writers of their ages, hould carce have been able to raie a little flock, which even decreaes daily.

it is to be born at a proper period of time. Were Cardinal de Retz to return again into the world, neither his eloquence nor his intrigues would draw together ten women in Paris.

Oliver Cromwell, he who beheaded his Sovereign and eiz'd upon the kingly dignity, to rie from the dead, he wou'd be a wealthy city trader, and no more. LETTER VIII.