Excerpt from A View of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy: In Four Letters to a Friend

The publication then will be of a piece with the rest. And never trouble your head with one contradiction, where you may meet with a thousand.

Quid te exempta levat spinis de pluribus una?

Now tho' I know You have as little Curiosity to hear what a Freethinker can object to the Faith which has got possession of your heart, as what a Pick-pocket can chicane to the Property in your purse: yet the name of L. Bolingbroke's Metaphysics, (which, I think, were become as famous, and hitherto as little understood, as his Politics) cannot sure but incline you to some flight acquaintance at least with this first Philosophy, as he calls it, and which, in the manner of other Conquerors, he erects on a general desolation.

The only part of his Lordship's Character, that yet remained equivocal, was his literary. How this will fare by the publication of his Philosophy, I will not pretend to say, perhaps not altogether so well as his Friends might give him the pleasure to expect.

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