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I assure you that I have never read a single page of it.
Mr. Gall, Mr. Treacle, Mr. Nightshade,
and Mr. Mac Laurel.
Never read our Review!!!!
Mr. Escot.
Never. I look on periodical criticism in general to be a species of shop, where panegyric and defamation are sold, wholesale, retail, and for exportation. I am not inclined to be a purchaser of these commodities, or to encourage a trade which I consider pregnant with mischief.
Mr. Mac Laurel.
I can readily conceive, Sir, ye wou'd na weelinly encourage ony dealer in panegeeric: but frae the manner in which ye speak o' the first creetics an' scholars o' the age, I shou'd
