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 blaming the Action as inconiderate, and which, he aid, was only pardonable in a Child.

Square had delivered his Opinion o openly, that if he was now ilent, he mut ubmit to have his Judgment cenured. He aid, therefore, with ome Warmth, ‘that Mr. Allworthy had too much Repect to the dirty Conideration of Property. That in paing our Judgments on great and mighty Actions, all private Regards hould be laid aide; for by adhering to thoe narrow Rules, the younger Brutus had been condemned of Ingratitude, and the elder of Parricide.’

‘And if they had been hanged too for thoe Crimes,’ cried Thwackum, ‘they would have had no more than their Deerts. A couple of heathenih Villains! Heaven be praied, we have no Brutus’s now-a-days. I wih, Mr. Square, you would deit from filling the Minds of my Pupils with uch Antichritian Stuff: For the Conequence mut be, while they are under my Care, its being well courged out of them again. There is your Diciple Tom almot poiled already. I overheard him the other Day diputing