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Excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution in France
B if, 2 if; therefore, in the. Courfe 'of this epiltley I chance to exprefs contempt, and even indig nanon, with fome emphafis, I befeech you to believe that it is not a ?ight of fancy; for truth, in morals, has ever appeared to me the silence of the fublime; and, in italic, Ifim pli'city the only criterion of the beautiful. But Iwar not With an individnal when I can; tend for the rights qf men and the liberty of rcafon. You fee I do not 'condefce'nd to cull my words to avoid the invidious phral'e, not {hall I be prevented from givmg a manly de finition bf it; by the fiimfy ridicule which a lively'fancy has interwoven With the preterit acceptatio'n cf the term; Reverencmg the rights of humanity, I {hall dare to 1afi'crt.
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