The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A FRAGMENT, &c. IM U S T confers myfelf to be one of thole who brought wth me to* the perufal of the late publifhed volumes of Lord Bolinghroke, a very high prejudice to the dodtrines faid to* have been eftablifhed in them ; but at the fame time, can as truly affert,, that i had the high eft, and ftrongeft pre- poffeffion in favour of the abilities of the author. Such, indeed, was this prep ffeffion, that it might, I think3 be a fufficient warrant of a man's can- dour againft any prejudice whatever-: and it is m the true fpirit of this can¬ dour, that I declare, upon the perufah, M c 1