LORD SHAFTESBURY.

You know well, I perceive, how to chuse your instances. The force of

this, you suppose, will hardly be lost on him, who professes himself an

adorer of that liberty. But, under favour, I see no such inconvenience,

as you suggest, in putting asunder two things which truth and nature

had no hand in bringing together. LIBERTY has charms enough to attach

the mind, wherever the place of her abode be; and I have never heard

that the loveliness of her form is impaired, or even disgraced, by the

homeliness of her habitation.

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