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Excerpt from Reply to a Short Review of the Political State of Great Britain, at the Commencement of the Year 1787
The people of England are fo difgul'ced with the indifcriminate virulence, and unmerited eulogiums of party, that when ever a pamphlet appears, where hardly any charaéters whatever are held up as either immaculately virtuous, or diabolically vitious, but where purity of mind and fublimity of talents, are mingled with, and debafed by the foibles of nature, we at leal'c pronounce it a candidfiperform ance, where rancour can have no Ibare, where cunning can have no view, and where the molt difinterefied patriotifm only predominates. But {hould fuch a compofition, upon an attentive perufal, he found to teem with charges of the molt heinous kind, and of, the moftide prayed maligmty, agamfi thofe very cha racfters that the writer at firft fo profufely embellifhes with pexfeétions, every Ieader muft tluow it afide with difdai and execrate 7 execrate fuch a bafe defign of that p'etty 'dauber, who has the ignorant audacity to affirm, that beauty confifis in uglinefs, and that depravity is virtue.
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