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Excerpt from Plain Truth, Addressed to the Inhabitants of America; Containing Remarks on a Late Pamphlet, Intitled Common Sense: Wherein Are Shewn, That the Scheme of Independence Is Ruinous, Delusive, and Impracticable; That Were the Author's Asseverations, Respecting the Power of America, as Real as Nugatory, Reconciliation on Liberal Principles With Great Britain Would Be Exalte
Hume, t1eatingof the original confine} has the following melancholy, but fenlible obfervation; yet reafon tells 11s, that the1e is no ptoperty in durable objects, fuch as lands and houfes, when carefully ex1mined, in paffing hom hand to hand, but mull in fome period have been founded on fraud and iuj'uitice. The nece?ities of human {ociety, neither in private or public life, will allow of fuch an accurate enquiry; and there is no virtue or moral duty, but what may, with facility, be refined away, if we indulge a faife philofophy, in fitting and fcrutinizing, by every captions rule of logic, in every light or pofition in which it may be placed.
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