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250 THE GENUINE HISTORY OF<br />

<strong>The</strong>se are <strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon's three conclufive<br />

arguments. And furely without any aggravation<br />

it may truly be faid <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, that <strong>the</strong>y are vague,<br />

contradidlory, and weak, <strong>the</strong> immeaning effufions<br />

<strong>of</strong> a vivacity, that is perpetually catching at <strong>the</strong><br />

obje(fts which <strong>the</strong> imagination prefents before it,<br />

but finds <strong>the</strong>m all illufive in <strong>the</strong> grafp, and<br />

merely bubbles blown up by <strong>the</strong> breath <strong>of</strong> pre-<br />

judice and paffion.—<strong>Mr</strong>. Macpherfon <strong>the</strong>refore,<br />

like a man diffatisfied with his own conclufions,<br />

ftill quivers about <strong>the</strong> point, and flill adds only<br />

to his own embarraffment. After his three de-<br />

cifive arguments, his do

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