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CRITICAL and PHILOSOPHICAL

COMMENTARY

ON

Mr. POPE's
ESSAY ON MAN.

In which is contain'd

A VINDICATION of the faid ESSAY

From the MISREPRESENTATIONS Of

Mr. DE RESNEL, the French Tranflator,

AND OF

Mr DE CROUSAZ,

Profeffor of Philofophy and Mathematics in the
Academy of Lausanne, the COMMENTATOR.

By Mr. WARBURTON.

Vide quam iniqui funt divinorum munerum æftima-
tores etiam quidam PROFESSI SAPIENTIAM. Sen.

LONDON:

Printed for JOHN and PAUL KNAPTON,
at the Crown in Ludgate Street.
MDCCXLII.

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TO MY

WORTHY FRIEND

RALPH ALLEN, Esq;

SIR,

I

give myself the pleasure of converfing with you, in this Form; as I

For

fee you lefs under the Idea of a Patron, than of a joint Labourer with me in the Service of Mankind. while I attempt to explain the Theory of this divine Philofophy of Univerfal Benevolence, you illuftrate it by your Practice. At most therefore I can but offer you the ESSAY ON MAN, set in a juft Light, as a Mirrour for your Cabinet; where you may behold the perfect Image of your own Mind: And the Works of this Artift, who is beholden only to Truth for their Polish and A 2

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