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iier whole life hath been loft in careffing the worft part of mankind, 

 and treating the beft as her foes; and that if fhe knew Gulliver, though 

 he had been the worft enemy ftie ever liad, flie would give up iitr 

 prefent acquauitance for his friendfliip." 



T. has fent us a rhapfody on the mcannefs of the ufual mode of par- 

 Jiamenteering, the dcTpicable nature of fervility to the court, and the 

 fliufHing tricks of the minifter, in which there is fuch a mixture of 

 fenfe and vague declamation incongruoufly united, as prevents us from 

 employing it. It is a pity tliis writer, who feems to err only througli 

 carelefsnefs, fhould not beftow a little more attention to his pieces : For 

 by rejeAing incongruous ideas, and arranging his thoughts more pro- 

 perly, his writings would acquire a beauty, a juftnefs and energy which 

 they want at prefent. We beg Jfave to obferve, once for all, that ge- 

 neral invedlive, efpecially in politic difquifitions, can feldom be of any 

 fervice. At kaft, it beft ferves thofe who wifti to excite difcontents 

 from particular views ; and as this is no jiart of our aim, we fliall in ge- 

 neral decline fuch writings. This is by no means intended to exclude 

 free difquifitions on any point whatever ; for as the editor will give his 

 own fentiments, without hcfitation, either for or againft any meafurc 

 that occars, without refpeft to the perfons by whom it may be promot- 

 ed; fo he willies his correfpondents to do the fame, without regard ei- 

 ther to his opinion, or that of any party; bu' he wifhes they would let 

 their remarks be f articular, and not general, and be expreffed with becom- 

 ing moderation, as it is in this way alone, that precife ideas of right or 

 wrong can be attained. 



An M tviig, who affumes the oppofite fide of the queftion, and fome 

 others, run into the fame error of being too general and vague in their 

 mode of reafoning. 



A young Jludent, Mr. I. complains of the injury he has fuftained, by 

 being obliged to attend a greater number of profiffors at the univerfity at 

 once, than he can properly be able to underftand, although he exerts his 

 powers to the utmoft. If this be a real cafe, it Ihews 'he injudicioufncfs 

 of the parents ; but we prefume this is a cafe, that feldom occurs. Wc 

 fufpe<Sf, the error oftener lies in the other extreme. 



BemvogUo regrets, that both writers and ledurers on ethics, fo often 

 disjoin religion from the moral principle, as he thinks the latter derive 

 all their truths and efficacy from the former. " If the rules of morality 

 are to be held binding on mankind ; they muft, like the rules and laws 

 of human judicatories, infer, if not rewards for compliance with them, 

 certain punilhments for difobedience of them. How then, are thefc 

 puniftiments difcoverabie, and by whom inflifted ? If we are not to take 

 into the account religious principles, which, whether derived from natu- 

 ral or revealed religion , inftruA us that we are accountable to a fu- 

 prtme being, who will certainly vindicate laws, v/hich, if they have 

 any foundation in truth, mull be derived from him .'" This disjundion, 

 he thinks, has given rife to a great many falfe fyftems, which have fuc- 

 ceeded each oilier ; and which, by being fucceffively (hewn to be erro- 

 neous, tend to infpire young perfons with a notion, that there is no fo- 

 Ld bafis for m.raliiy, and 10 introduce a fpirit of fcepiicifm. He then pro- 



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