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us, may be more fitly judged of; and thirty millions of men, speaking in the same old Saxon tongue, and thinking in the same old Saxon spirit with ourselves, may be admitted to the rights of brotherhood which they have long deserved, and which it is we chiefly that suffer by withholding.
Antichrist of Wit) is still held in remembrance; so likewise is the P^re Bouhours's extremely satirical inquiry, Si un Allemand pent avoir de l'esprit?