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PGCJ.771.045
5 Oct 1771:11, 12 (404)
THE IMPARTIALIST, NO. 1.
Mankind one day serene and free appear;
The next they're cloudy, sullen, and severe.
New passions, new opinions still excite.
And what they like at noon, despise at night.
. . . [6 more lines as introduction to essay on
understanding, with the following additional lyrics
included:]
By education most have been misled,
So they believe, because they so were bred;
The priest continues what the nurse began,
And thus the child imposes on the man. [signed] Dryden]
. . . as Mr. Stillingsleet, in his Essay Upon Conversation,
prettily express it,
Visions of devils into monkeys turn'd,
That, hot from hell, roar at a finger burn'd;
Bottles of precious tears that saints have wept,
And breath a thousand years in phials kept;
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