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tions dften abufe in fo dangerous a rrtanner? 

 Bow did Rabefin know that, in order to 

 millead mankind, it is always better to ad* 

 dfefs the pafiTons than to fpeak to the ju dg- 

 riient ? How had lie learned to take advan- 

 tage of that fecret prbpenrify' \vh?cli makes 

 us fd fond of fraud and deliifion ?' What iri-"^ * 

 fitience over the multitude have not thofe' 

 perfi di'ous declal meH\ of* cu rt'nihg i m poflors, 

 who, either with a view to mterefl, or of 

 cBftinguilhmg th^mfelves In' the Wd'rM, eh- 

 deavbiir to varnilh' over with brirtiant, biit' 

 filfe; colours th^e moft fa^at ' err6r5'? Falfe-^ 

 hbcJd; fufceptible by its n'atte *df *ad infinite^ 

 vkrfety'of combinatioii^; rfay-'bi^'difguifed-* 

 under a t^ioufand fdfmg • hut tf ui4i is not"* 

 attended v^ith this dangerous advantage ; if' 

 has only one appearance ; and to endea- 

 vour to embeilirti it is'^to dfegrade it,' and 

 deftroy its force. Cato wiilied that all' thofo' 

 fophifts and rhetoricians, who wcte io" ce- 

 lebrated 



