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confidence (or rather impudence) to recom- 

 mead them, or juftify the dreadful havock 

 they conltantly make among this moil ufeful 

 part of the creation, if we may be fairly allowed 

 to decide, by the great numbers annually 

 doomed to death, in the penury and credulity 

 of one clafs, or the invincible obftinacy and 

 ignorance of the other. 



The penury and credulity I allude to (and 

 which cannot be too often or emphatically re- 

 peated), is that kind of faving knowledge in 

 the employer, inevitably produftive of a double 

 deception ; for (without beftowing even a remote 

 thought upon the defective abilities of the em^ 

 f Joyed) his imagination outftripping refle(ftion, 

 rapidly reaches an ideal cure at the leaji expence, 

 totally forgetting that felf-prefervation is a 

 concomitant to low cunning, and confequently 

 more is laviihed upon the ignorant, obftinate, 

 confident, or neceffitous, for the promotion of 

 mifchief and danger, than v/o.uld amply com- 

 penfate the enlightened pyaditioner for his 

 afliilance in all cafes of emergency. Nume- 

 rous fa(ft:s might be adduced to demon ftrate 

 tlie truth of thefe affertions (notwithilanding 

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