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Honourable Mr. Juſtice Blackſtone , con taining obſervations on ſome parts of his Commentaries on the Laws of England , my deſign was , not only to induce the learned Commentator to reconſider ſeveral paſſages of his celebrated work , which , as I thought , were injurious to the intereſts of religious liberty ; but to promote amongſt my readers in general juſt conceptions of the right of private judgment , and of impartial liberty in matters of conſcience ; which of all human rights ſeems to me to be one of the moſt facred and unalienable . How far I have ſucceeded in either of theſe views , it becomes

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