Note 466 — TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENUES DANS LE DEUXIÈME VOLUME.
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: Behold now this vast city, a city of refuge, the mansionhouse, of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war has not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered Truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present with their homage and fealty the approaching Reformation. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?