Conduct, had nothing to fear whatever he attempted, and would have been more powerful than the King himſelf. But there was very little Danger that a Man, capable of putting up on ſuch an Occaſion with ſuch a Privilege, ſhould make an ill Uſe of it. In fact, it does not appear that this Right ever cauſed the leaſt Diſturbance in the Kingdom, either by the ſage Otanes, or any of his Deſcendants.
Preface. Pag. xlv.
(2.) From my firſt ſetting out, I build with Confidence upon one of thoſe Authorities which Philoſophers reſpect, becauſe derived from ſolid and ſublime Reaſons, which they, and they alone, are capable of diſcovering and feeling.
"Whatever Intereſt we may have to know ourſelves, I doubt if we do not know much better thoſe Things which make no Part of us. Provided by Nature with Organs ſolely adapted to our Preſervation, we employ them merely to receive foreign Impreſſions; all our Care is to exiſt without ourſelves; too much taken up in multiplying the Functions of our Senſes
