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Dedication.
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I ſhould have choſen for my Country one ſecured againſt the brutal Rage of Conqueſt by a happy Impoſſibility of making any, and, by a ſtill more happy Situation, free from the Apprehenſions of becoming itſelf the Conqueſt of any other State: A free City, ſituated among Nations, none of whom ſhould find it their Intereſt to attack her Liberties, but all, on the contrary, think a Duty to themſelves to defend them, when attacked by others. A Republic, in a word, which not only had nothing to tempt the Ambition of its Neighbours, but might reaſonably depend upon their Aſſiſtance in caſe of Neceſſity. Such a Republic as this, a
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