OR, THE

DIVERSIONS

OF

PURLE Y.

PART I.

BY JOHN HORNE TOOKE, A. M.
LATE OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIdge.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR,

AT J. JOHNSON'S, NO. 72, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

TO THE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

NE of her grateful Sons,-who always confiders acts of voluntary juftice towards himself as Favours *,dedicates this humble offering. And particularly to her chief ornament for virtue and talents, the Reverend Doctor Beadon, Master of Jefus College.

* Notwithstanding the additional authority of Plato's despicable sayingCum omnibus folvam quod cum omnibus debeo '—the affertion of Machiavel, that-Nifuno confessera mai haver obligo con uno chi non l'offenda—and the repetition of it by Father Paul, that-Mai alcuno fi pretende obligato a chi l'habbi fatto giuftitia; ftimandolo tenuto per fe fteffo di farla -are not true. They are not true either with respect to nations or to individuals: for the experience of much injuftice will cause the forbearance of injury to appear like kindness.

Senec. de benefic. lib. v1.

2 Difcor. lib. 1. cap. XVI.

3

Opinione del Padre Fra Paolo, in qual modo debba governar la Republica Veneta per haver perpetuo dominio.