it is impossible for a careless Reader to enter into. This
           Advantage of the Ground has been trusted to by his Accuser,
           and surely never more abused than on the present Occasion. But
           he has one Advantage, I trust, which is worth a Hundred of
           what his Opposers can boast of, viz. that of Innocence; and I
           hope he has also another Advantage, viz. that of Favour, if we
           really live in a Country of Freedom, where Informers and
           Inquisitors are so deservedly held in universal Detestation,
           where Liberty, at least of Philosophy, is so highly valu'd and
           esteem'd. I am,

           Sir,

           Your most obedient

           humble Servant.

           May 8th 1745.

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