Excerpt from Moral and Political Dialogues, Vol. 2: With Letters on Chivalry and Romance UT do you confider, faid Mr. Addi son, as they defcended into the valley, what an invidious talk you are going to impofe upon me? One cannot call in quefiion a common opinion in any indifferent matter, without the ap pearance of fome degree of perverfenefs. But to do it in a cafe of this importance, where the greateit authorities {land in the way, and the glory of one of our princes is concerned, will, I doubt, be liable to the imputation of fomething worfc than fingularity. For, befides that you will be apt to upbraid me, in the words of the poet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.