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Rh mounted to his brain, bearing the proposition along with it. But the success has not hitherto been answerable, partly by some errour in the quantum or composition, and partly by the perverseness of lads to whom this bolus is so nauseous, that they generally steal aside, and discharge it upwards, before it can operate; neither have they been yet persuaded to use so long an abstinence, as the prescription requires.

N the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses; which is a scene, that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes, for persuading monarchs to choose favourites, upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the publick good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, and eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employments, persons qualified to exercise them; with many other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed Rh