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 TERR.FILIUS. N O IX. Pueri$ dant crtula $!andi Doca'oRv-s, Elementa velint ut difcere prima. I-or. W IDIqESD& �, 2Ve$ruary xS'. Find. when a man opens his mouth in a good cau�e, % ,ot difficult to find thole who approve what, perhaps. they would not them�el?s have dared to appear in. A bold patriot in a tenate has, by this means, often brought men to avow his fe, mmenrs, who before were either fufpec"'ted o5' bei,g of a con- ttary opinion, or at lea{} lay, till then, very clotk in the point. 'Tis with many held a dangerous thing to appear the firit againft a t&ming majo, ity, which only the want of courage in its opponents o�cafions to be thought fo. Since my publiing the few papers ! have done, I fee, with rome plealure, the few occult points which I have touch'd upon, and the truth. I have utre'd, in relation ro our .41ma mattes, aflimted to b., fundry of their children tho' I own it is chiefly bv rich'as, being come to man's eftate, have left their mothers, and tkt out in the world on their own bottoms. There are, indeed, �ome few, even unde, the very no f the good dames/, who l,ave

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