It seems as if you would rather have it
believed a Fault in Sentiment than Language: So you admit you
understood the Word, but charge the wrong Application of it, to the
Defect of your Judgment. In my poor Opinion, you gain nothing by the
Change, to furnish Matter of Triumph.
Tho' your Absurdities and Mistakes are such, that no Writer was
ever guilty of before; yet, I question not, but you will inform the
World in your next, as you did in your last, that my Animadversions
on them are only _Extracts out of other Men's Works,_ viz. _those of
the Party-Writers in_ England. I have, more than once, told you,
that no Man has a Right to bring an Accusation before the Publick,
without bringing his _Proofs_ along with it. You have confined your
Evidence, which is to support this Charge, to the Party-Writers of
_Great Britain_. I will not limit you to them, but shall admit, that
there is a _Possibility_ of its being true, if you can produce any
Author, of any Age or Country, that ever was engaged in a Controversy
_of the like Nature_ with Ours. The Paragraph in Dispute contains
but five Lines. The Insinuation, deduced from it in your first, is
also comprized within five; in your second it takes up fifteen; I
_hope_ I shall live to see the Day, when It shall have swelled to a
large Volume in Folio: For so useful and edifying a Work, as that is
likely to be, must redound to the immortal Honour of that IMPORTANT
Article of News, in the Reputation and Defence of which I am so
_deeply_ interested.
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