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Essays, or discourses, vol. 1 (of 4)

Chapter 87: FOOTNOTES.
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The collection presents a series of discourses that examine common beliefs and moral, political, and philosophical questions, ranging from the nature of popular opinion, virtue and vice, and the influence of fortune, to sovereign ambition, aristocratic privilege, and the appearance of virtue. Each essay interrogates received opinions and superstitions through critical reasoning, illustrative examples, and comparative argument, aiming to correct errors, promote clearer thought about governance, ethics, and social standing, and advocate temperate, evidence-informed judgments over unexamined tradition.

FOOTNOTES.

[1] Feyjoo, in the supplement to his Teatro Critico, says, the relation of the Earl of Leicester’s being guilty of the horrid crime of murdering his wife in order to remove all impediments to his marrying Queen Elizabeth, which he had entertained hopes of doing, was taken from Nicholas Sanders, and another person whose name he has forgot; he says further, he has since found reason to doubt the truth of that accusation, and condemns the mistaken zeal of Sanders, who he owns was much addicted to give credit to any thing he heard against the enemies of the Catholic Religion. He declares that Protestants have the same right to natural justice as Catholics, and that they should not be positively and unjustly charged with crimes, upon false rumours, or dubious reports.

[2] The son of Pope Alexander the sixth.