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As soon would discuss the effects of sound
with the deaf, or the nature of colours with the
blind, as aim at illumiating with con=
viction a mind so warped by prejudice,
so much the flame of unruly and illiberal
passions.

I am no fake accuser, I am not moved
by envy, by malice, nor by unworthy
motives, to blacken a spotless name
[???].

A charge replete with proof of crimina=
lity of the blackest die, of tyranny the most
vile and premeditated, of corruption the
most open and shameless, of oppression
the most severe and grinding, of cruelty
the most hard and unparalleled. But
I am for from meaning to rest the
charge on [assertion??] or on any warm
[ens???sions] which the impulse of

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