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 with Mater Blifil, that there was no Merit in Faith without Works. I know that is one of your Tenets, and I uppoe he had it from you.’

‘Don’t accue me of poiling him,’ ays Square, ‘who taught him to laugh at whatever is virtuous and decent, and fit and right in the Nature of Things? He is your own Scholar, and I diclaim him. No, no, Mater Blifil is my Boy. Young as he is, that Lad’s Notions of moral Rectitude I defy you ever to eradicate.’

Thwackum put on a contemptuous Sneer at this, and replied, ‘Ay, ay, I will venture him with you. He is too well grounded for all your philoophical Cant to hurt. No, no, I have taken Care to intil uch Principles into him.—’

‘And I have intilled Principles into him too,’ cries Square. ‘What but the ublime Idea of Virtue could inpire a human Mind with the generous Thought of giving Liberty. And I repeat to you again, if it was a fit thing to be proud, I might claim the Honour of having infued that Idea—’