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*' toxicated with this imagined inspiration, 

 *' they utter their rapture and their triumph 

 " with fuch wildnefs and incoherence 

 " with fuch gefticulation and vociferation, 

 " as fet all reafon and decorum at defiance. 

 " This prefumption feized chiefly the young 

 *' and fanguine, and, as it feems, like hyf- 

 " teric affections, partly fpreading through 

 " the crowd by fympathy; its operations 

 " and effects varying according to the dif- 

 " ferent degrees of conftitutional tempe- 

 " rament, mock all defcription. Among 

 " their preachers, who are alfo very vari- 

 " ous in character, (illiterate and conceited 

 " or well meaning and fenfible or, too 

 " frequently I fear, crafty and hypocritical) 

 " fome are more diflinguimed by their fuc- 

 ** cefs in exciting thzfejiravaganzaf. One 

 *' of thefe, after beginning perhaps in a 

 " lower voice, in more broken and detached 

 " fentences, rifes by degrees to a great- 

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