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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    The force of this argument, how¬ ever, even in the days when it flourifh- ed moft, drew all its ftrength from a fuppofition that, if he himfelf faid it, he himfelf believed it: for, if it could have been proved of Ariftot e that he had afferted pro and con, and had with the fame clearnefs affirmed in one part of his works the fame thing to be, and in another the fame thing not to be, none of his fcholars would have known which he believed, and all others would, perhaps, have thought that he had no belief at all in, nor indeed any knowledge of the matter. If, therefore his lordfhip ffiall appear to have made ufe of this duplicity of affertion, and that not in one or two, but in many inftances, may we not draw the like concluiions ? Luckily, perhaps, for his lordfhip, we may not be driven to the fame abfolute degree of uncertainty as muft have refulted from the cafe of Ariflotle, as I have 8 put