OR, THE

DIVERSIONS

OF

PURLE Y.

PART I.

BY JOHN HORNE TOOKE, A. M. LATE OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

AT J. JOHNSON'S, NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

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TO THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

NE of her grateful Sons,-who always confiders acts of voluntary juftice towards himself as Favours *,— dedicates this humble offering. And particularly to her chief ornament for virtue and talents, the Reverend Doctor Beadon, Master of Jefus College.

*Notwithstanding the additional authority of Plato's despicable sayingCum omnibus folvam quod cum omnibus debeo '—the affertion of Machiavel, that-Nifuno confeffera mai haver obligo con uno chi non l'offenda—and the repetition of it by Father Paul, that-Mai alcuno fi pretende obligato a chi l'habbi fatto giuftitia; ftimandolo tenuto per fe fteffo di farla 3-are not true. They are not true either with respect to nations or to individuals: for the experience of much injuftice will cause the forbearance of injury to appear like kindness.

• Senec. de benefic. lib. VI.

2 Difcor. lib. I. cap. XVI.

3 Opinione del Padre Fra Paolo, in qual modo debba governarfi la Republica Veneta per haver perpetuo dominio.