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Excerpt from Argument Upon the Jurisdiction of the House of Commons to Commit, in Cases of Breach of Privilege
Our time has been seldom taken up in noticing what are denominated Novels, - their general insipidity and mawkishness tending rather to deprave than to improve the state of society; but as this work has nothing about it of the usual routine of love-sick stories of modern romance; as we recognise many of the principal charac ters and incidents to be real; and* as their arrangement is only intended as a vehicle to convey remarks on the follies, frivolities, and fashions of the times, we with pleasure present our readers with an extract, that they may be enabled to judge fa themselves on the merit of a production, for which, the author remarks, hi! Rewa'rd will be sufficient, If his readers will correct in their own conduct what they perceive amiss in the delineations here exhibited to them; and imitate whatsoever they find recorded in the narrative, either virtuous or praise-worthy!
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