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upon FOLLY. ae licable to the People who if they had fuch Mia removed, as they complained of for Extortion, yet their Succeffors would certainly be worfe. ve Wits what higheft Advances of roe could Sertoréus have kept the Barbarians fo well in Awe, as by a White Hart, which he pretended was prefented to him by Diana, and Defigns? What was Lycurgus his Grand Argument for demonftrating the Force of Education, but only the bringing out Two Whelps of the fame Bitch, differently brought up, and placing before them a difh, and a live Hate ne] had beena Kitchen, prefently fell alicking the Platter. Thus the before-mentioned Sertorius made his Soldiers fenfible that Wit and Contrivance would do more than bare Strength, by fetting a couple of Men to the plucking off Two Horfes Tails s the firtt pulling at all in one Handful, tugged in vain, while the other, though much the weaker, {natching off one by one, foon performed his Instances of like Nature are Alinos, King Numa, both which fooled the People the firſt pretending he was adviſed by Fuzzver, the latter by making the Vulgar believe in all Debates and TranfaGions. And indeed it is by fuch Wheedles that the Common E People
