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 every thing hath a Right to Liberty. Thee were his Words; and the Impreion they have made on me is never to be eradicated. Can any Man have a higher Notion of the Rule of Right, and the Eternal Fitnes of Things. I cannot help promiing myelf from uch a Dawn, that the Meridian of this Youth will be equal to that of the elder or the younger Brutus.’

Here Thwackum hatily interrupted, and pilling ome of his Wine, and wallowing the ret with great Eagernes, anwered, ‘From another Expreion he made ue of, I hope he will reemble much better Men. The Law of Nature is a Jargon of Words, which means nothing. I know not of any uch Law, nor of any Right which can be derived from it. To do as we would be done by, is indeed a Chritian Motive, as the Boy well expreed himelf, and I am glad to find my Intructions have born o good Fruit.’

‘If Vanity was a thing fit (ays Square) I might indulge ome on the ame Occaion; for whence he can only have learnt his Notions of Right or Wrong, I think is pretty apparent. If there be no