“Men make a boast of pedigree as well might the descendants of Richard Turpin boast of theirs for both honours spring from robbery & spoilation – what was William the Conqueror but a robber by wholesale & what were his followers but high way men by his authority receiving tithes by their expertness at plunder for which Turpin (a more noble plunderer if absence from fear or dareing achievements make one) received a halter because he dared to rob & could show only his courage for the liscence – the ancestors of a Newton have some thing to boast of but pedigree belongs to a race horse & confers nothing to the mind or the man”
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