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NECO.723.006
18-25 Feb 1723:11,12 (82)
As in quality of chairman of our Club, I have the sole
honour of being directed to in this paper, and have the
power granted me of publishing or concealing all letters
coming to my hands, I shall ever give due incouragement to
all opinions which do not appear pernicious to the
constitution of Church or State, and will not pretend to
reduce all my correspondents to the same standard of
thinking, provided they improve their freedom of thought to
the diversion and instruction of the reader.
The following letter is a very smart answer to Hypercriticus
his remarks on two late elegies, and to deny it a place in
the paper, would undoubtedly lay me under the imputation of
partiality to the author, or disrespect to learning: I will
therefore present it to the reader without presuming to
alter any expression of the author's feeling resentments,
tho' it should bear never so hard upon Hypercriticus.
. . . A strange position indeed, that the sound of words
separate from ideas, should be so irksome to the ears of the
pretended Hypercriticus! A most foolish argument than the
country people use against the new way of singing, viz.
because they don't like the tone.
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