think fit. God is infinitely merciful, and his vice gerent is only not so, because he is not infinite. The true end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender, than the physician to the patient, when he prescribes harsh remedies to an inveterate disease; for those are only in order to prevent the chirurgeon's work of an ense rescindendum, which I wish not to my very enemies. To conclude all if the body politic have any analogy to the natural, in my weak judgment an act of oblivion were as necessary in a hot distempered state, as an opiate would be in a raging fever. Phaleg. Rabsheka Mephibosheth. Michal. Nadab Sanhedrim Saul Shimei . London. Sir Wm. Jones, a great Lawyer. Dover. Saville, Marquis of Halifax. Lord Dartmouth. King of France. Sir Thomas Player, one of the Sagan of Jerusalem Dr. Compton, Bishop of Lon don, youngest Son to the Earl of Northampton. Parliament. Oliver Cromwell. Slingsby Bethel, Sheriff of London in 1680. Sir Roger L'Estrange. England. |