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 lawful overeign, and the dominion of their mother-country, very loud clamours have been raied, and many wild aertions advanced, which by uch as borrow their opinions from the reigning fahion have been admitted as arguments; and what is trange, though their tendency is to leen Englih honour, and Englih power, have been heard by Englih-men with a wih to find them true. Paion has in its firt violence controlled interet, as the eddy for a while runs againt the tream.

be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices o near to laudable, that they have been often praied, and are always pardoned. To love their country has been conidered as virtue in men, whoe love could not be otherwie than blind, becaue their preference was made without a comparion; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of thoe,