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confess'd, that, notwithstanding his Defeat and Captivity, his 

 Honour was still unimpair'd : and that, if he yielded the 

 victory, it was at least gain'd by a Prince of such consummate 

 Valour and Humanity." 



EDWARD III. 



" The prisoners were everywhere treated with Humanity and 

 were soon after dismissd on paying moderate Ransoms to the 

 Persons into whose hands they had fallen. The extent of their 

 fortunes was consider'd, and no more was exacted of them, 

 that* what woud still leave them sufficient to enable them 



for the future, to take the field in a manner suitable to their 



quality 

 rank & station. Yet so numerous -and ouch a- were the 



noble Prisoners, that these Ransoms wore GU-ffioioBt to cnri 



Field 

 join'd to the spoils of the Battle- were sufficient to enrich 



the Princes army : and as they had sufferd very little in the 



joy & exultation 

 action, their -triumph was complete." 



DIALOGUES ON NATURAL RELIGION. 



" Now Cleanthes said Philo, with an air of Alacrity & 



Triumph Mark the consequence. First By this Method of 



claim 

 Reasoning, you renounce all PrctcnsieKs- to Infinity in any of 



the attributes of the Deity. For as the Cause ought only to be 



proportion'd to the Effect, and the Effect so far as it falls under 



you will , upon your supposition 

 our cognisance : what Pretensions youll cay have we to ascribe 



Attribute You will still resist that, by 



that Epithet- to the Divine Being ? A ^y- removing him so 



hypothesis 



by th give into the most arbitrary -suppoFitionc & at the same time weaken 

 much from all similarity to human creatures, we A destroy all 



Proofs of his Existence. 



Sic. 





