of Lord Bolingbroke: An Author who stands convicted of designed Profligacy, even on his own Confession. "Some Men there are, the Pests of Society I think them, who pretend a great Regard to Religion in general, but who take every Opportunity of declaiming publicly against that System of Religion, or at least that Church Establishment, which is received in Britain.[1]"—You See, this patriot Writer proclaims his Abhorrence even of Those who assault the Out-Works of Religion: And then, with Modesty unparallel'd, proceeds to blow up the Citadel.
The last of these patriot Worthies, by which the present Age stands distinguished, is the Author of "Essays philosophical and moral:" Who, disdaining the vulgar Practice of a particular Attack, undermines all the Foundations of Religion, revealed and natural; and with a Pen truly Epicurean, dissolves at once all
- ↑ Dissert. on Parties. Let. xii.
