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Pope is an open and mortal enemy to his country, and the commonwealth of learning. Some call him a popish whig, which is directly inconsistent. Pope, as a papist, must be a tory and high flyer. He is both a whig and tory.

He hath made it his custom to cackle to more than one party in their own sentiments.

In his Miscellanies, the Persons abused are, The, the , His late , both Houses of , the Privy-Council, the Bench of , the Establish'd , the present , &c. To make Sense of some passages, they must be construed into.