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 This Dicoure happened at Table when Dinner was jut ended; and there were preent Mr. Allworthy, Mr. Thwackum, and a third Gentleman who now entered the Debate, and whom, before we proceed any farther, we hall briefly introduce to our Reader’s Acquaintance.  The Character of Mr. Square the Philoopher, and of Mr. Thwackum the Divine; with a Dipute concerning

HE Name of this Gentleman who had then reided ome time at Mr. Allworthy’s Houe, was Mr. Square. His natural Parts were not of the firt Rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned Education. He was deeply read in the Antients, and a profet Mater of all the works of Plato and Aristotle. Upon which great Models he had principally form’d himelf, ometimes according with the Opinion of the one, and ometimes with that of the other. In Morals he was a profet Platonit, and in Religion he inclined to be an Aristotelian.