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ner of his going, is all that can be required | 

 to prevent bowing implicit obedience to the 

 felf-fufficient dilation of every rural Vulcan^ 

 who in general fpeaks fuch *' an infinite deal 

 of nothing/' that it is equally difficult to 

 underfland as to be underftood. 



Previous to farther progrefs upon a fubje^t 

 we will endeavour to treat with great plain- 

 nefs and perfpicuity, it becomes unavoidably 

 neceflary to take a flight furvey of the incon- 

 fiftent ground-work, upon which the fabric 

 of fuch publications have been raifed ; as 

 we may, perhaps, have occafion to intro- 

 duce fome few obfervations of practical rcr 

 marks upon the propriety of their recommen- 

 dations, which fliall neverthelefs be produced 

 with all poffible delicacy to the diflferent 

 writers, wiil:iing by no means to irritate their 

 feeling in the fupport of an oppofite opinion, 

 where an incumbent duty renders the incul« 

 cation indifpenfable. 



The inconfiderate career of fome pens, an4 

 the invincible cacoethes fcribendi of others, 

 compel the involuntary taflc of difquifition, tq 



prevent; 



