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1818 Nov<hi rend="underline">r</hi> 23.
S.8. Proper answer to this talk — Ephraim Jenkins.
S.7. The Mask then removed proper answer Ephraim Jenkins
The profession in question being so frequently thus
employed as a test and proof of patriotism — of a paramount
regard to the interests of the people and this test and supposed
proof so fallacious an one two practices conclusions results will
here be proposed for his guidance to him to whom those interests
are really a paramount object of his regard.
1. The one is in his own instance to avoid giving utterance
and currency to a conception thus adverse to his wishes.
2. The other is — as often as it happens to him to hear this
Instrument employed by any other hand and at the same time
in such a way as to have a tendency to become productive of
its decepticious affect, to embrace every favourable occasion
of divesting it of the Cloak of plausibility in which it
is involved and holding it up to view in its hue colours; in
those true colours in which as above it has been displayed.
In Goldsmiths Novel, the Vicar of Wakefield, one of
the characters is Ephraim Jenkins — Ephraim is a
who, for the purpose of imposing in the course of a public and
transient conversation on Men of more learning then discernement
and the experience of the world has set up a few
paragraphs by which the semblance of antique and recondite
erudition is displayed: subject, the cosmogory and the universal deluge;
Authors named and referred to Yanchoniathon and others By
well By
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