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 Square talked in a very different Strain. He aid, ‘uch Accidents as a broken Bone were below the Conideration of a wie Man. That it was abundantly ufficient to reconcile the Mind to any of thee Michances, to reflect that they are liable to befal the wiet of Mankind, and are undoubtedly for the Good of the whole.’ He aid, ‘it was a mere Abue of Words, to call thoe Things Evils, in which there was no moral Unfitnes; that Pain, which was the wort Conequence of uch Accidents, was the mot contemptible thing in the World;’ with more of the like Sentences, extracted out of the Second Book of Tully’s Tuculan Quetions, and from the Great Lord Shaftebury. In pronouncing thee he was one Day o eager, that he unfortunately bit his Tongue; and in uch a Manner, that it not only put an End to his Dicoure, but created much Emotion in him, and caued him to mutter an Oath or two: But what was wort of all, this Accident gave Thwackum, who was preent, and who held all uch Doctrine to be heathenih and atheitical, an Opportunity to clap a Judgment on his Back. Now this was done with o malicious a Sneer, that it totally unhinged (if I may o ay) the Temper of the Philoo-