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 thoe, who have with equal blindnes hated their country.

anti-patriotic prejudices are the abortions of Folly impregnated by Faction, which being produced againt the tanding order of Nature, have not trength ufficient for long life. They are born only to cream and perih, and leave thoe to contempt or detetation, whoe kindnes was employed to nure them into michief.

perplex the opinion of the Publick many artifices have been ued, which, as uually happens when falehood is to be maintained by fraud, loe their force by counteracting one another.

nation is ometimes to be mollified by a tender tale of men, who fled from tyranny to rocks and deerts, and is peruaded to loe all claims of jutice, and all ene of dignity, in compaion for a