mother quite, as little ſerviceable to his purpoſe. But of that more in another place.
§. 7. I do not think our author ſo little ſkilled in the way of writing diſcourſes of this nature, nor ſo careleſs of the point in hand, that he by over-ſight commits the fault, that he himſelf, in his Anarchy of a mixed Monarchy, p. 239. objects to Mr. Hunton in theſe words: Where firſt I charge the author, that he hath not given us any definition, or deſcription of monarchy in general; for by the rules of method he ſhould have firſt defined. And by the like rule of method Sir Robert ſhould have told us, what his fatherhood or fatherly authority is, before he had told us, in whom it was to be found, and talked ſo much of it. But perhaps Sir Robert found, that this fatherly authority, this power of fathers, and of kings, for he makes them both the fame, p. 24. would make a very odd and frightful figure, and very diſagreeing with what either children imagine of their parents, or ſubjects of their kings, if he ſhould have given us the whole draught together in that gigantic form, he had painted it in his own fancy; and therefore, like a wary phyſician, when he would have his patient ſwallow ſome harſh or corroſive liquor, he mingles it with a large quantity of that which may dilute it; that the ſcattered parts may go down with leſs feeling, and cauſe leſs averſion.
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