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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    is, that whenever that great lawyer is pleafed to put down two opinions di¬ rectly contradidting each other, that the latter opinion is always the beft, and always his own. To apply thefe to the prefent pur- pofe, I firft of all recommend to the candour of the reader, that whenever he fhall find two aflertions diredlly con¬ trary to each other, (and many fuch we do promife to produce to him) one of which diredtly tends to take away all religion whatever, and the other as di¬ redtly to eftablifh natural religion at lead, that he will be fo kind, fince it is impofiible that my lord fhould have believed both, to imagine that he ra¬ ther believed the latter; efpecially as this latter, from its contradidting the apparent purpofe of the author, appears to have been lafl: fet down ; and, confe- quentlv, will have my lord Coke’s fandtion in favour of the fuperior au¬ thority. s' Lastly