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 ometimes be offered in Mitigation, I hall et forth the plain Matter of Fact, and leave the whole to the Reader’s Determination.

Mr. Jones had Somewhat about him, which, though I think Writers are not thoroughly agreed in its Name, doth certainly inhabit ome human Breats; whoe Ue is not o properly to ditinguih Right from Wrong, as to prompt and incite them to the former, and to retrain and with-hold them from the latter.

This Somewhat may be indeed reembled to the famous Trunk-maker in the Play-houe: for whenever the Peron who is poeed of it doth what is right, no ravihed or friendly Spectator is o eager, or o loud in his Applaue; on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no Critic is o apt to his and explode him.

To give a higher Idea of the Principle I mean, as well as one more familiar to the preent Age; it may be conidered as itting on its Throne in the Mind, like the of this Kingdom in his Court; where it preides, governs, directs, judges, acquits and condemns according to Merit and Jutice; with a Knowledge which nothing