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OR, THE

DIVERSIONS

OF

PURLEY.

PART. I.

BY JOHN HORNE TOOKE, A. M.

LATE OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE.

THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY WM, DUANE.

1806.
M.L

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS 1918

TO THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

ONE of her grateful sons,....who always considers acts of voluntary justice towards himself as favours, (*),....dedicates this humble offering. And particularly to her chief ornament for virtue and talents, the reverend doctor Beadon, master of Jesus college.

(a) Notwithstanding the additional authority of Plato's despicable saying.... Cum omnibus solvam quod cum omnibus debeo1 ....the assertion of Machiavel, that.... Nissuno confessera mai haver obligo con uno chi non l'offenda2....and the repitition of it by Father Paul, that....Mai alcuno si pretende obligato a chi l'habbi fatto giustitia; stimandolo tenuto per se stesso di farla3... true. They are not true either with respect to nations or to individuals for the experience of much injustice will cause the forbearance of injury to appear like kindness.

1 Senec. de benefic. lib. vI.

2 Discor. lib. 1, cap. xvI.

....are not

3 Opinione del Padre Fra Paolo, in qual modo debba governarsi la Republica Veneta per haver perpetuo dominio.

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