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Excerpt from The Works of Soame Jenyns, Esq., Vol. 3 of 4: Including Several Pieces, Never Before Published, to Which Are Prefixed, Short Sketches of the History of the Author's Family, and Also of His Life
T HE author of the following letters is too well acquainted with human nature to be in the leafi furprifed at the reception they have met with; that is, that they have been much liked, much cenfured, and little affented to: Truth, he knows, has at all times been fo re ceived for though by her native beauty'fhe is fure to charm, yet from her repugnancy to mofi men's interefis, {he is feldom wel come: politicians are afraid of her, parties detefi her, and all profefiions agree that {he is mad, and very dangerous if fufi'ered to go about in public: he knows that mankind live all in mafquerade, and that whoever pre fumes to come amongfi them barefaced mutt expect to be abufed by the whole affembly: he could therefore have no motive for thus imparting his free fentiments to the public, except the dictates of his own heart, which tell him, that it is every man's duty, who comes into the world, to ufe his belt endea vours, however infignificant, to leave it as.
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