APOLOGY, 5 
journal was fuggeked. But if I had memory to recoiled, k 
requires fkill to give defcriptions of the fplendid apparatus of 
great men’s houfes, or of thofe delightful fcenes which have been 
the objeds of your amufement. 
Befides, you are not to think I am in Tartarian defarts now, 
but in a land where every mole-hill has its ingenious commen- 
tator, and where every particle of foil has been kudied. I only 
wifh I had language to convey the ideas, from whence I receive 
that portion of delight which I enjoy myfelf. It is true a man 
may talk like a saint and be a devil ; fo he may difcourfe with 
propriety upon objeds of take, with very few of thofe fenfations 
which excite the applaufe of the heart, where the joy is chiefly 
feated* 
There is another difficulty which occurs to me. I have fome^ 
where read, I believe it is in lord Peterborough’s letters to 
Mr. pope, in which there is mention made of writing to two la- 
dies. “ If, fays he, I tell one that fhe is as fair as venus, and. 
<c the other that fhe excels diana in chakity, neither of them 
“ will be pleafed.” But leaving this to your own good fenfe, I 
think it effential to obferve, that if I do not mix the little de^- 
licacy and politenefs which I am maker of, with the aukerity of 
the philofopher, and the zeal of the chrikian, you w 7 ill think, if 
you are not tempted to fay, “ What an ill-bred fellow this is, 
“ who pretends to write under circumkances which require ac- 
<c complifhments fo much fuperior to his !” Remember, this is 
the very thing I acknowledge, and by the acknowledgment ac- 
quit myfelf. 
3. Thus,, 
