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The 1654 Prose Letters Letter 52, cont. (p.163) |
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cuity, would make them a Pamphlet, not a Letter. I will therefore deferre them till I see you; and in the mean time, I will ad- venture to say to you, without inserting one unnecessary word, that the Book is full of falsifications in words, and in sense, and of falshoods in matter of fact, and of incon- sequent and unscholarlike arguings, and of relinquishing the King, in many points of defence, and of contradiction of himself, and of dangerous and suspected Doctrine in Divinitie, and of silly ridiculous triflings, and of extreme flatteries, and of neglecting better and more obvious answers, and of letting slip some enormous advantages which the other gave, and he spies not. I know (as I begun) I speak to you who can- not be scandalized, and that neither mea- sure Religion (as it is now called) by Uni- tie, nor suspect Unity, for these interrupti- ons. Sir, not onely a Mathematique point, which is the most indivisible and unique thing which art can present, flowes into every line which is derived from the Cen- [CW: ter,] |
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