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  mother quite, as little erviceable to his purpoe. But of that more in another place.

§. 7. I do not think our author o little killed in the way of writing dicoures of this nature, nor o careles of the point in hand, that he by commits the fault, that he himelf, in his Anarchy of a mixed Monarchy, p. 239. objects to Mr. Hunton in thee words: Where firt I charge the author, that he hath not given us any definition, or decription of monarchy in general; for by the rules of method he hould have firt defined. And by the like rule of method Sir Robert hould have told us, what his fatherhood or fatherly authority is, before he had told us, in whom it was to be found, and talked o much of it. But perhaps Sir Robert found, that this fatherly authority, this power of fathers, and of kings, for he makes them both the fame, p. 24. would make a very odd and frightful figure, and very diagreeing with what either children imagine of their parents, or ubjects of their kings, if he hould have given us the whole draught together in that gigantic form, he had painted it in his own fancy; and therefore, like a wary phyician, when he would have his patient wallow ome harh or corroive liquor, he mingles it with a large quantity of that which may dilute it; that the cattered parts may go down with les feeling, and caue les averion. §. 8.