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into the contrary and less agreeable excess : which, however, in consideration
of its favoring explicitness, is not perhaps the most inexcusable one.
I WISH I could make an apology as receivable by
a reader, who will doubtless be justly disgusted at the repetitions I
have too little scrupled the making of the same thoughts, and even sometimes
of the same expressions. Yet I dare bespeak, from his candor, some indulgence
to the confession of a fault, it will easily be perceived I could not
well escape, without the worse inconvenience to himself, of his being
perplexed with references back to past pages, besides, that sometimes
a chain of argument would be broke, consequently weakened, by the suppression
of some link of it, on account of the matter having been elsewhere already
employed in other connexions.
UPON the whole, I throw myself, with the more confidence,
on the favorable acceptance of the public, from my consciousness of its
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