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PC.768.032
29 Feb-7 Mar 1768:443 (60)
(No. 4) The Political Tattler. From my own Apartment,
February 24, 1768.
I heard myself censured the other day in a coffee-house
for seeming to glance in my extracts against certain great
men who are in employment. Such censures are unjust. I am
conscious to myself, that I publish this paper with no other
intention but that of doing good. But what if I had really
intended that such an application should be made: I cannot
perceive how I could be blamed for so gentle a reproof. If
I saw a handsome young fellow going to a ball at court with
a great smut on his face, could he take it ill in me to
point out the place, and desire him, with abundance of good
words, to pull out his handkerchief, and wipe it off, or
bring him to a glass, where he might plainly see it with his
own eyes? No surely. . .
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