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It was hinted by another, that an Inſcription which had no Relation to any particular Set of Men amongſt us, but was composed many Ages before the Parties, which now divide the Nation, had a Being, could not be ſo properly conveyed to the World by Means of a Paper, dedicated to political Debates.
Another, to whom I had communicated my own Obſervations in a more private Manner, and who had inſerted ſome of his own Arguments, declared it, as his Opinion, that they were, though very controvertible and unſatisfactory, yet too valuable to be loſt; and that though to inſert the Inſcription in a Paper[1] of which ſuch Numbers are daily diſtributed at the
- ↑ The Paper here alluded to, and ſo frequently mentioned in this Pamphlet, was called the Gazetteer. It was publiſhed at a heavy and unpardonable public Expence for the baſe Purpoſe of defending the Meaſures of Sir Robert Walpole in Parliament. The beſt Writers, the Johnſons of his Time, were paid and penſioned by Government for their Eſſays written in Praiſe of a proſtituted Premier and his Tools.
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